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48 results for source code transformations

Model learns code representations from comments for data analysis tasks.

problem Lack of descriptive labels for analyzing large code corpora.
method Weakly supervised transformer architecture for joint code and comment representation.
result Model achieves 38% accuracy increase over expert-supplied heuristics.

DiffTaichi enables fast, differentiable physical simulations with shorter code.

problem Building efficient differentiable physical simulators.
method Differentiable programming language (DiffTaichi) that generates gradients using source code transformations and a light-weight tape.
result Differentiable physical simulators written in DiffTaichi are faster and more concise than existing methods.

The wavelet scattering transform is an invariant signal representation suitable for many signal processing and machine learning applications. We present the Kymatio software package, an easy-to-use, high-performance Python implementation of the scattering transform in 1D, 2D, and 3D that is compatible with modern deep …

2018-12-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper models and compresses wideband CSI feedback in FDD MIMO systems.

problem Fundamental limits of channel state information (CSI) feedback in FDD massive MIMO systems.
method Modeling CSI as a Gaussian-mixture source with latent geometry states, proposing Gaussian-mixture transform coding (GMTC).
result Near-optimal CSI compression achieved through state-adaptive transform coding without large neural encoders.

Neural machine translation models are used to automatically generate a document from given source code since this can be regarded as a machine translation task. Source code summarization is one of the components for automatic document generation, which generates a summary in natural language from given source code. Thi…

2019-06-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Code search and comprehension have become more difficult in recent years due to the rapid expansion of available source code. Current tools lack a way to label arbitrary code at scale while maintaining up-to-date representations of new programming languages, libraries, and functionalities. Comprehensive labeling of sou…

2019-06-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Contrastive Code Representation Learning improves code summarization and type inference.

problem Code representations are sensitive to edits, hindering downstream semantic understanding tasks.
method ContraCode: a contrastive pre-training task that learns code functionality.
result Contrastive pre-training improves code summarization and type inference accuracy.

Many software analysis methods have come to rely on machine learning approaches. Code segmentation - the process of decomposing source code into meaningful blocks - can augment these methods by featurizing code, reducing noise, and limiting the problem space. Traditionally, code segmentation has been done using syntact…

2019-07-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Natural language processing has improved tremendously after the success of word embedding techniques such as word2vec. Recently, the same idea has been applied on source code with encouraging results. In this survey, we aim to collect and discuss the usage of word embedding techniques on programs and source code. The a…

2019-04-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper explores understanding of neural source code embeddings.

problem Lack of understanding of contents and characteristics of code2vec embeddings.
method Small case study using code2vec embeddings to create binary SVM classifiers and compare performance with handcrafted features.
result Code2vec embeddings perform similarly to handcrafted features and have more evenly distributed information gains.

Paper proposes graph-based separable transforms for video coding.

problem Improving video coding efficiency by better capturing residual block statistics.
method Derives graph-based separable transforms (GBSTs) from line graphs with weights determined by parameters.
result GBSTs achieve about 0.4% average coding gain over existing transforms in VVC.

Backdoors can be implanted in neural models of source code, and we detect and remove them.

problem Vulnerability of neural models to backdoors in source code.
method Defined and implemented various backdoor classes, adapted robust statistics algorithms, and detected poisoned data through spectral signatures.
result Demonstrated the ease of injecting and removing backdoors in neural models of source code.

A framework and benchmark for deep batch active learning in neural networks.

problem Efficiently acquiring labels for neural network regression.
method Framework of base kernels, transformations, and selection methods; use of sketched finite-width neural tangent kernels and clustering.
result Proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art on benchmark, scales to large data sets.

We present the first general purpose framework for marginal maximum a posteriori estimation of probabilistic program variables. By using a series of code transformations, the evidence of any probabilistic program, and therefore of any graphical model, can be optimized with respect to an arbitrary subset of its sampled …

2017-07-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Improves code2vec for Java classes by obfuscating variable names.

problem Code2vec's reliance on variable names makes it vulnerable to typos and attacks.
method Obfuscate variable names during code2vec training and aggregate method embeddings for class-level predictions.
result Obfuscated variable names improve model's robustness and accuracy.

Programming languages are emerging as a challenging and interesting domain for machine learning. A core task, which has received significant attention in recent years, is building generative models of source code. However, to our knowledge, previous generative models have always been framed in terms of generating stati…

2019-04-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Determining the programming language of a source code file has been considered in the research community; it has been shown that Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithms can be effective in identifying the programming language of source code files. However, determining the programming lang…

2018-09-21abs ↗pdf ↗

We provide complete source code for building a fundamental industry classification based on publically available and freely downloadable data. We compare various fundamental industry classifications by running a horserace of short-horizon trading signals (alphas) utilizing open source heterotic risk models (https://ssr…

2017-06-13abs ↗pdf ↗

We study the problem of building generative models of natural source code (NSC); that is, source code written and understood by humans. Our primary contribution is to describe a family of generative models for NSC that have three key properties: First, they incorporate both sequential and hierarchical structure. Second…

2014-01-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Signatory calculates signature and logsignature transforms efficiently on CPU and GPU.

problem Efficient computation of signature and logsignature transforms for machine learning.
method CPU and GPU parallelism, backpropagation, efficient precomputation strategies, algorithmic improvements.
result Substantial speedups on CPU and GPU, including real-world applications.

As the performance of computer systems stagnates due to the end of Moore's Law, there is a need for new models that can understand and optimize the execution of general purpose code. While there is a growing body of work on using Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to learn representations of source code, these representation…

2019-06-17abs ↗pdf ↗

TreeCaps improves code comprehension for software developers.

problem Processing code efficiently for software developers.
method Tree-based capsule networks for capturing code syntactical structures and dependencies.
result TreeCaps outperforms other approaches in classifying program functionalities.

This work proposes a meta-learning approach for better adaptation of source code models.

problem Adapting source code models to unseen local contexts.
method Formulated as a meta-learning problem, selecting targeted information for adaptation.
result Improved performance in code auto-completion tasks, especially for identifiers and literals.

There is a perceived trade-off between machine learning code that is easy to write, and machine learning code that is scalable or fast to execute. In machine learning, imperative style libraries like Autograd and PyTorch are easy to write, but suffer from high interpretive overhead and are not easily deployable in prod…

2018-10-16abs ↗pdf ↗

The ability to generate natural language sequences from source code snippets has a variety of applications such as code summarization, documentation, and retrieval. Sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) models, adopted from neural machine translation (NMT), have achieved state-of-the-art performance on these tasks by treating…

2018-08-04abs ↗pdf ↗

FinGPT democratizes financial data for LLMs, enabling innovation.

problem Limited financial text datasets and disparities between general and financial text data.
method Automates collection and curation of real-time financial data from diverse Internet sources, fine-tuning with RLSP and LoRA.
result Democratizes access to financial data for LLMs, enabling innovation.

URT layer improves few-shot image classification across diverse domains.

problem Few-shot image classification in multi-domain settings.
method Meta-learns to dynamically re-weight and compose domain-specific representations.
result Sets new state-of-the-art on Meta-Dataset.

The scientific literature is a rich source of information for data mining with conceptual knowledge graphs; the open science movement has enriched this literature with complementary source code that implements scientific models. To exploit this new resource, we construct a knowledge graph using unsupervised learning me…

2019-08-25abs ↗pdf ↗

StrTransformer recovers sources without labels by optimizing latent matrices and enforcing structural constraints.

problem Unsupervised blind source recovery in signal processing.
method Source-wise structured Transformer framework with latent source matrix optimization, structural regularization, and branch-specific weights.
result StrTransformer learns distinct temporal-scale structures and recovers source-aligned latent trajectories.