# Mixture of Style Experts for Diverse Image Stylization

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.16649 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.16649/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Placed in Vision mixture-of-experts, one of 12 directions in Mixture-of-experts.
- Builds on 43 of its 65 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 17 Mar 2026.

## Placed in

- Mixture-of-experts / [Vision mixture-of-experts](https://mlsanity.com/moe/vision-mixture-of-experts/)

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 43)

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- [DeepSeekMoE: Towards Ultimate Expert Specialization in Mixture-of-Experts Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2401.06066/) (2024)
- [Inversion-Based Style Transfer with Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.13203/) (2022)
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- [Neural Style Transfer: A Review](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1705.04058/) (2017)
- [StyleDrop: Text-to-Image Generation in Any Style](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.00983/) (2023)
- [Style Injection in Diffusion: A Training-free Approach for Adapting Large-scale Diffusion Models for Style Transfer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.09008/) (2023)
- [InstantStyle: Free Lunch towards Style-Preserving in Text-to-Image Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.02733/) (2024)
- [Style Transfer by Relaxed Optimal Transport and Self-Similarity](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1904.12785/) (2019)
- [SSR-Encoder: Encoding Selective Subject Representation for Subject-Driven Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.16272/) (2023)
- [Implicit Style-Content Separation using B-LoRA](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.14572/) (2024)
- [Measuring Style Similarity in Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.01292/) (2024)
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## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [DreamStyle3D: Efficient 3D Stylized Asset Generation via Dual-Attention Disentanglement](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.24721/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Diffusion-based stylization has advanced significantly, yet existing methods are limited to color-driven transformations, neglecting complex semantics and material details. We introduce StyleExpert, a semantic-aware framework based on the Mixture of Experts (MoE). Our framework employs a unified style encoder, trained on our large-scale dataset of content-style-stylized triplets, to embed diverse styles into a consistent latent space. This embedding is then used to condition a similarity-aware gating mechanism, which dynamically routes styles to specialized experts within the MoE architecture. Leveraging this MoE architecture, our method adeptly handles diverse styles spanning multiple semantic levels, from shallow textures to deep semantics. Extensive experiments show that StyleExpert outperforms existing approaches in preserving semantics and material details, while generalizing to unseen styles. Our code and collected images are available at the project page: https://hh-lg.github.io/StyleExpert-Page/.