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| 16 | +\namefrom{\vspace{-0.3in}Jeremy R. Manning} |
| 17 | +\addrfrom{ |
| 18 | + Dartmouth College\\ |
| 19 | + Department of Psychological \& Brain Sciences\\ |
| 20 | + HB 6207 Moore Hall\\ |
| 21 | + Hanover, NH 03755} |
| 22 | + |
| 23 | +\addrto{} |
| 24 | +\dateset{\today} |
| 25 | + |
| 26 | +\greetto{To the editors of \textit{PLOS ONE}:} |
| 27 | + |
| 28 | + |
| 29 | + |
| 30 | +\closeline{Sincerely,} |
| 31 | + |
| 32 | +\begin{document} |
| 33 | +\begin{newlfm} |
| 34 | + |
| 35 | +I have enclosed our manuscript entitled \textit{A Stylometric Application of |
| 36 | +Large Language Models} to be considered for publication as a \textit{Research |
| 37 | +Article}. The manuscript shows that large language models can be used to |
| 38 | +distinguish the writings of different authors: an individual GPT-2 model, |
| 39 | +trained from scratch on the works of a single author, predicts that author's |
| 40 | +held-out text more accurately than text written by others. |
| 41 | + |
| 42 | +Our central claim is supported by a systematic and fully reproducible set of |
| 43 | +experiments. We trained individual models on the works of eight classic authors |
| 44 | +and used cross-entropy loss as a measure of stylistic similarity, an approach we |
| 45 | +term predictive comparison. To confirm that our findings are robust rather than |
| 46 | +artifacts of a single training run, we trained models across multiple random |
| 47 | +seeds and several text representations (full text, content words, function |
| 48 | +words, and part-of-speech sequences). These ablations show that both content |
| 49 | +words and function words contribute to author-specific signatures, whereas |
| 50 | +grammatical structure alone is less distinctive. We further apply the approach |
| 51 | +to a real attribution problem, supporting R. P. Thompson's authorship of the |
| 52 | +well-studied 15\textsuperscript{th} book of the \textit{Oz} series, originally |
| 53 | +attributed to L. F. Baum. |
| 54 | + |
| 55 | +We designed the study with reproducibility as a priority, in keeping with the |
| 56 | +standards of \textit{PLOS ONE}: all code and data needed to reproduce every |
| 57 | +result, figure, and statistical test are openly available at |
| 58 | +\url{https://github.com/ContextLab/llm-stylometry}. We believe the work will |
| 59 | +interest the journal's broad, interdisciplinary readership, including |
| 60 | +researchers in computational linguistics, digital humanities, and machine |
| 61 | +learning. |
| 62 | + |
| 63 | +This manuscript reports original primary research that is not under |
| 64 | +consideration for publication elsewhere. An earlier version has been posted as a |
| 65 | +preprint on arXiv (arXiv:2510.21958), consistent with \textit{PLOS ONE}'s |
| 66 | +preprint policy. Thank you for considering our manuscript; I hope you will find |
| 67 | +it suitable for publication in \textit{PLOS ONE}. |
| 68 | + |
| 69 | + |
| 70 | +\end{newlfm} |
| 71 | +\end{document} |
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