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Decompilers are important tools for reverse engineers that help them analyze software at a higher level of abstraction than assembly code. Unfortunately, because compilation is lossy, deterministic decompilers produce code that is missing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Luke Dramko , Claire Le Goues , Edward J. Schwartz

Automatic Program translation has enormous application value and hence has been attracting significant interest from AI researchers. However, we observe that current program translation models still make elementary syntax errors,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Mengnan Qi , Yufan Huang , Maoquan Wang , Yongqiang Yao , Zihan Liu , Bin Gu , Colin Clement , Neel Sundaresan

Dynamically typed programming languages like R allow programmers to write generic, flexible and concise code and to interact with the language using an interactive Read-eval-print-loop (REPL). However, this flexibility has its price: As the…

Computation · Statistics 2021-01-14 Michel Lang

This paper aims to evaluate GitHub Copilot's generated code quality based on the LeetCode problem set using a custom automated framework. We evaluate the results of Copilot for 4 programming languages: Java, C++, Python3 and Rust. We aim to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Ilja Siroš , Dave Singelée , Bart Preneel

This paper introduces a model for incomplete utterance restoration (IUR) called JET (\textbf{J}oint learning token \textbf{E}xtraction and \textbf{T}ext generation). Different from prior studies that only work on extraction or abstraction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Shumpei Inoue , Tsungwei Liu , Nguyen Hong Son , Minh-Tien Nguyen

An inherently abstract nature of source code makes programs difficult to understand. In our research, we designed three techniques utilizing concrete values of variables and other expressions during program execution. RuntimeSearch is a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Matúš Sulír

This paper introduces CodeQUEST, a novel framework leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to iteratively evaluate and enhance code quality across multiple dimensions, including readability, maintainability, efficiency, and security. The…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Rundong Liu , Andre Frade , Amal Vaidya , Maxime Labonne , Marcus Kaiser , Bismayan Chakrabarti , Jonathan Budd , Sean Moran

Compilers, while essential, are notoriously complex systems that demand prohibitively expensive human expertise to develop and maintain. The recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) offer a compelling new paradigm: Neural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Hainan Fang , Yuanbo Wen , Jun Bi , Yihan Wang , Tonghui He , Yanlin Tang , Di Huang , Jiaming Guo , Rui Zhang , Qi Guo , Yunji Chen

A transcompiler, also known as source-to-source translator, is a system that converts source code from a high-level programming language (such as C++ or Python) to another. Transcompilers are primarily used for interoperability, and to port…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Marie-Anne Lachaux , Baptiste Roziere , Lowik Chanussot , Guillaume Lample

Softwares source code is becoming large and complex. Compilation of large base code is a time consuming process. Parallel compilation of code will help in reducing the time complexity. Parsing is one of the phases in compiler in which…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Abhinav Jangda

Compilers are essential for the performance and correct execution of software and hold universal relevance across various scientific disciplines. Despite this, there is a notable lack of tools for testing and evaluating them, especially…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Berke Ates , Filip Dobrosavljević , Theodoros Theodoridis , Zhendong Su

Attacks against computer systems exploiting software vulnerabilities can cause substantial damage to the cyber-infrastructure of our modern society and economy. To minimize the consequences, it is vital to detect and fix vulnerabilities as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Son Nguyen , Thu-Trang Nguyen , Thanh Trong Vu , Thanh-Dat Do , Kien-Tuan Ngo , Hieu Dinh Vo

Probabilistic programming languages are valuable because they allow domain experts to express probabilistic models and inference algorithms without worrying about irrelevant details. However, for decades there remained an important and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Rajan Walia , Praveen Narayanan , Jacques Carette , Sam Tobin-Hochstadt , Chung-chieh Shan

Recently, the automated translation of source code from one programming language to another by using automatic approaches inspired by Neural Machine Translation (NMT) methods for natural languages has come under study. However, such…

As foundation models continue to scale, the size of trained models grows exponentially, presenting significant challenges for their evaluation. Current evaluation practices involve curating increasingly large datasets to assess the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-08 Ganghua Wang , Zhaorun Chen , Bo Li , Haifeng Xu

Python is a popular programming language known for its flexibility, usability, readability, and focus on developer productivity. The quantum software community has adopted Python on a number of large-scale efforts due to these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 Thien Nguyen , Alexander J. McCaskey

To take full advantage of a specific hardware target, performance engineers need to gain control on compilers in order to leverage their domain knowledge about the program and hardware. Yet, modern compilers are poorly controlled, usually…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Martin Paul Lücke , Oleksandr Zinenko , William S. Moses , Michel Steuwer , Albert Cohen

Pre-trained language models have shown stellar performance in various downstream tasks. But, this usually comes at the cost of high latency and computation, hindering their usage in resource-limited settings. In this work, we propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Ali Modarressi , Hosein Mohebbi , Mohammad Taher Pilehvar

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in automatic code generation, yet their ability to produce high-performance code remains limited--a critical requirement in real-world software systems. We argue that current…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Jiuding Yang , Shengyao Lu , Hongxuan Liu , Shayan Shirahmad Gale Bagi , Zahra Fazel , Tomasz Czajkowski , Di Niu

Just-in-Time software defect prediction (JIT-SDP) prevents the introduction of defects into the software by identifying them at commit check-in time. Current software defect prediction approaches rely on manually crafted features such as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Hareem Sahar , Abdul Ali Bangash , Abram Hindle , Denilson Barbosa