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Re:Unsupervised translation of programming languages by junipertea on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @06:20PM (#23471603)
In Table 2, we observe that TransCoder significantly outperforms both baselines in terms of computational accuracy, with 74.8% and 68.7% in the C++ → Java and Java → Python directions, compared to 61% and 38.3%

It beats existing commercial products that try to do the same, so to me it seems it has some value right now.

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Re:Unsupervised translation of programming languages by qayxc on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @06:41PM (#23471771)
> It beats existing commercial products that try to do the same, so to me it seems it has some value right now.

While I agree with your conclusion, a minor correction is in order here: it beats a (as in a single selected) commercial product and a single free OSS transpiler.

The improvement for the commercial product is 61% vs. 75% accuracy (i.e. 23% better) which - while impressive given the unsupervised learning aspect - isn't a game changer (yet!).

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