InterTrans: Leveraging Transitive Intermediate Translations to Enhance LLM-based Code Translation

Understand

Code translation aims to convert a program from one programming language (PL) to another.

• This long-standing software engineering task is crucial for modernizing legacy systems, ensuring cross-platform compatibility, enhancing performance, and more.
• However, automating this process remains challenging due to many syntactic and semantic differences between PLs.
• Recent studies show that even advanced techniques such as large language models (LLMs), especially open-source LLMs, still struggle with the task.