Neuron Activation Modulation for Text Style Transfer: Guiding Large Language Models (2025.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Text style transfer (TST) aims to flexibly adjust the style of text while preserving its core content. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that aligns activation values of style-related neurons with those of the target style to guide the model in performing the transfer. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method significantly improves style transfer quality while preserving core content. |
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