| Challenge: | Existing approaches to authorship attribution are dataset-dependent and yield inconsistent performance across corpora. |
| Approach: | They propose to fine-tune pre-trained generic language representations with a contrastive objective to learn author-specific representations by identifying clusters of authors. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach improves on multiple human and machine authorship attribution benchmarks, but at the cost of sacrificing performance for some authors. |
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