NLP

CORE MACHINE LEARNING

DOBF: A Deobfuscation Pre-Training Objective for Programming Languages

November 08, 2021

Abstract

Recent advances in self-supervised learning have dramatically improved the state of the art on a wide variety of tasks. However, research in language model pre-training has mostly focused on natural languages, and it is unclear whether models like BERT and its variants provide the best pre-training when applied to other modalities, such as source code. In this paper, we introduce a new pre-training objective, DOBF, that leverages the structural aspect of programming languages and pre-trains a model to recover the original version of obfuscated source code. We show that models pre-trained with DOBF significantly outperform existing approaches on multiple downstream tasks, providing relative improvements of up to 12.2% in unsupervised code translation, and 5.3% in natural language code search. Incidentally, we found that our pre-trained model is able to deobfuscate fully obfuscated source files, and to suggest descriptive variable names.

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AUTHORS

Written by

Baptiste Rozière

Marie-Anne Lachaux

Marc Szafraniec

Guillaume Lample

Publisher

Neurips

Research Topics

Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Core Machine Learning

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