Code Translation with Compiler Representations. (arXiv:2207.03578v1 [cs.PL])

In this paper, we leverage low-level compiler intermediate representations
(IR) to improve code translation. Traditional transpilers rely on syntactic
information and handcrafted rules, which limits their applicability and
produces unnatural-looking code. Applying neural machine translation (NMT)
approaches to code has successfully broadened the set of programs on which one
can get a natural-looking translation. However, they treat the code as
sequences of text tokens, and still do not differentiate well enough between
similar pieces of code which have different semantics …

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