AuthorMix: Modular Authorship Style Transfer via Layer-wise Adapter Mixing

The task of authorship style transfer involves rewriting text in the style of a target author while preserving the meaning of the original text. Existing style transfer methods train a single model on large corpora to model all target styles at once: this high-cost approach offers limited flexibility for target-specific adaptation, and often sacrifices meaning preservation for style transfer. In this paper, we propose AuthorMix: a lightweight, modular, and interpretable style transfer framework. We first train individual, style-specific LoRA adapters on a small set of high-resource authors: this allows for the rapid training of specialized adaptation models for each new target using layer-wise adapter mixing via reinforcement learning, necessitating only a handful of target-style training examples. AuthorMix ranks first on the combined style-meaning score among all baselines, including GPT-5.1, and substantially improves meaning preservation over the trained baselines; under human evaluation it is the only method best-or-tied on every dimension.