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Machine translation software has seen rapid progress in recent years due to the advancement of deep neural networks. People routinely use machine translation software in their daily lives, such as ordering food in a foreign restaurant,…

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Recent years have seen the rise of Deep Learning (DL) techniques applied to source code. Researchers have exploited DL to automate several development and maintenance tasks, such as writing commit messages, generating comments and detecting…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Michele Tufano , Jevgenija Pantiuchina , Cody Watson , Gabriele Bavota , Denys Poshyvanyk

The encoder-decoder framework for neural machine translation (NMT) has been shown effective in large data scenarios, but is much less effective for low-resource languages. We present a transfer learning method that significantly improves…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-04-11 Barret Zoph , Deniz Yuret , Jonathan May , Kevin Knight

Making computer programming language more understandable and easy for the human is a longstanding problem. From assembly language to present day's object-oriented programming, concepts came to make programming easier so that a programmer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-28 K. M. Tahsin Hassan Rahit , Rashidul Hasan Nabil , Md Hasibul Huq

The advent of large language models (LLMs) has significantly advanced the field of code translation, enabling automated translation between programming languages. However, these models often struggle with complex translation tasks due to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Manish Bhattarai , Javier E. Santos , Shawn Jones , Ayan Biswas , Boian Alexandrov , Daniel O'Malley

We present CrossTL, a universal programming language translator enabling bidirectional translation between multiple languages through a unified intermediate representation called CrossGL. Traditional approaches require separate translators…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Nripesh Niketan , Vaatsalya Shrivastva

A typical compiler flow relies on a uni-directional sequence of translation/optimization steps that lower the program abstract representation, making it hard to preserve higher-level program information across each transformation step. On…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Vinicius Couto , Luciano Zago , Hervé Yviquel , Guido Araújo

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has been widely adopted recently due to its advantages compared with the traditional Statistical Machine Translation (SMT). However, an NMT system still often produces translation failures due to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Wujie Zheng , Wenyu Wang , Dian Liu , Changrong Zhang , Qinsong Zeng , Yuetang Deng , Wei Yang , Pinjia He , Tao Xie

Code pre-trained models (CodePTMs) have recently demonstrated a solid capacity to process various software intelligence tasks, e.g., code clone detection, code translation, and code summarization. The current mainstream method that deploys…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Qiushi Sun , Nuo Chen , Jianing Wang , Xiang Li , Ming Gao

Solving complex chart Q&A tasks requires advanced visual reasoning abilities in multimodal large language models (MLLMs), including recognizing key information from visual inputs and conducting reasoning over it. While fine-tuning MLLMs for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Wei He , Zhiheng Xi , Wanxu Zhao , Xiaoran Fan , Yiwen Ding , Zifei Shan , Tao Gui , Qi Zhang , Xuanjing Huang

Changes in source code are an inevitable part of software development. They are the results of indispensable activities such as fixing bugs or improving functionality. Descriptions for code changes (commit messages) help people better…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Thanh Trong Vu , Thanh-Dat Do , Hieu Dinh Vo

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has seen a tremendous spurt of growth in less than ten years, and has already entered a mature phase. While considered as the most widely used solution for Machine Translation, its performance on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Surangika Ranathunga , En-Shiun Annie Lee , Marjana Prifti Skenduli , Ravi Shekhar , Mehreen Alam , Rishemjit Kaur

Multi-source translation is an approach to exploit multiple inputs (e.g. in two different languages) to increase translation accuracy. In this paper, we examine approaches for multi-source neural machine translation (NMT) using an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Yuta Nishimura , Katsuhito Sudoh , Graham Neubig , Satoshi Nakamura

Despite the impressive quality improvements yielded by neural machine translation (NMT) systems, controlling their translation output to adhere to user-provided terminology constraints remains an open problem. We describe our approach to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Eva Hasler , Adrià De Gispert , Gonzalo Iglesias , Bill Byrne

Fast machine code generation is especially important for fast start-up just-in-time compilation, where the compilation time is part of the end-to-end latency. However, widely used compiler frameworks like LLVM do not prioritize fast…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Tobias Schwarz , Tobias Kamm , Alexis Engelke

Binary-source code matching plays an important role in many security and software engineering related tasks such as malware detection, reverse engineering and vulnerability assessment. Currently, several approaches have been proposed for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Yi Gui , Yao Wan , Hongyu Zhang , Huifang Huang , Yulei Sui , Guandong Xu , Zhiyuan Shao , Hai Jin

Large language model (LLM) shows promising performances in a variety of downstream tasks, such as machine translation (MT). However, using LLMs for translation suffers from high computational costs and significant latency. Based on our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Zhanglin Wu , Daimeng Wei , Xiaoyu Chen , Hengchao Shang , Jiaxin Guo , Zongyao Li , Yuanchang Luo , Jinlong Yang , Zhiqiang Rao , Hao Yang

Optimizations in a traditional compiler are applied sequentially, with each optimization destructively modifying the program to produce a transformed program that is then passed to the next optimization. We present a new approach for…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Ross Tate , Michael Stepp , Zachary Tatlock , Sorin Lerner

Translating machine code into human-readable high-level languages is an open research problem in reverse engineering. Despite recent advancements in LLM-based decompilation to C, modern languages like Dart and Swift are unexplored. In this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Raafat Abualazm , Ayman Abo Elhassan

Large Language Models have demonstrated a remarkable capability in natural language and program generation and software development. However, the source code generated by the LLMs does not always meet quality requirements and may fail to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Viktor Kjellberg , Miroslaw Staron , Farnaz Fotrousi