  This paper focuses on style transfer on the basis of non-parallel text. This
is an instance of a broad family of problems including machine translation,
decipherment, and sentiment modification. The key challenge is to separate the
content from other aspects such as style. We assume a shared latent content
distribution across different text corpora, and propose a method that leverages
refined alignment of latent representations to perform style transfer. The
transferred sentences from one style should match example sentences from the
other style as a population. We demonstrate the effectiveness of this
cross-alignment method on three tasks: sentiment modification, decipherment of
word substitution ciphers, and recovery of word order.
