Challenge: Existing methods for few-shot style transfer often copy inputs verbatim . a new method is better at controlling the style transfer magnitude using an input scalar knob.
Approach: They propose a method to model the stylistic difference between paraphrases by rewriting a sentence into a target style while preserving semantics.
Outcome: The proposed method achieves 2-3x better performance in formality transfer and code-mixing addition across seven languages.

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