Abstract Syntax Tree for Programming Language Understanding and Representation: How Far Are We?

1 code implementation • 1 Dec 2023 • Weisong Sun, Chunrong Fang, Yun Miao, Yudu You, Mengzhe Yuan, Yuchen Chen, Quanjun Zhang, An Guo, Xiang Chen, Yang Liu, Zhenyu Chen

To do so, we compare the performance of models trained with code token sequence (Token for short) based code representation and AST-based code representation on three popular types of code-related tasks.

Representation Learning