Low Resource Style Transfer via Domain Adaptive Meta Learning

Xiangyang Li, Xiang Long, Yu Xia, Sujian Li


Abstract
Text style transfer (TST) without parallel data has achieved some practical success. However, most of the existing unsupervised text style transfer methods suffer from (i) requiring massive amounts of non-parallel data to guide transferring different text styles. (ii) colossal performance degradation when fine-tuning the model in new domains. In this work, we propose DAML-ATM (Domain Adaptive Meta-Learning with Adversarial Transfer Model), which consists of two parts: DAML and ATM. DAML is a domain adaptive meta-learning approach to learn general knowledge in multiple heterogeneous source domains, capable of adapting to new unseen domains with a small amount of data. Moreover, we propose a new unsupervised TST approach Adversarial Transfer Model (ATM), composed of a sequence-to-sequence pre-trained language model and uses adversarial style training for better content preservation and style transfer. Results on multi-domain datasets demonstrate that our approach generalizes well on unseen low-resource domains, achieving state-of-the-art results against ten strong baselines.
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2022.naacl-main.220
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Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
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July
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2022
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Seattle, United States
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Marine Carpuat, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz
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NAACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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3014–3026
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.naacl-main.220
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.naacl-main.220
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Xiangyang Li, Xiang Long, Yu Xia, and Sujian Li. 2022. Low Resource Style Transfer via Domain Adaptive Meta Learning. In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, pages 3014–3026, Seattle, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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