StyleRemix: Interpretable Authorship Obfuscation via Distillation and Perturbation of Style Elements (2024.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Authorship obfuscation methods that ignore author-specific stylistic features are often too rigid and lead to degradation of fluency and grammaticality. |
| Approach: | They propose an adaptive obfuscation method that perturbs stylistic elements of text . authors release a large set of 30K high-quality, long-form texts from a diverse set of 14 authors . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art methods on an array of domains on automatic and human evaluation. |
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