BabelCoder: Agentic Code Translation with Specification Alignment

arXiv:2512.06902 · cs.SE, cs.AI · Submitted 2025-12-07 · Read on arXiv

cs.SE, cs.AI

Submitted: 2025-12-07

Updated: 2026-09-24

Code: https://github.com/anonprox/babelcoder

Terminology

• Accuracy — 21× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 17× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 15× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 10× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Agentic Framework — 5× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Multi-Agent Framework — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Spectrum-Based Fault Localization — 5× in this paper
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 3× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Ablation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ablation study — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Failure Modes — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Few-Shot Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Generalizability — 2× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Hallucination — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Multi-Agent System — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Prompt Engineering — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Semantic Understanding — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptability — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adversarial Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adversarial Training — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Large Language Model (LLM) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Modularity — 1× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• RAG — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Semantic Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• AVATAR: A Parallel Corpus for Java-Python Program Translation
• Enhancing Code Translation in Language Models with Few-Shot Learning via Retrieval-Augmented Generation
• ExeCoder: Empowering Large Language Models with Executability Representation for Code Translation
• AlphaTrans: A Neuro-Symbolic Compositional Approach for Repository-Level Code Translation and Validation
• Self-Organized Agents: A LLM Multi-Agent Framework toward Ultra Large-Scale Code Generation and Optimization
• Unsupervised Translation of Programming Languages
• An Exploratory Study on Fine-Tuning Large Language Models for Secure Code Generation
• Secure-Instruct: An Automated Pipeline for Synthesizing Instruction-Tuning Datasets Using LLMs for Secure Code Generation
• RobuNFR: Evaluating the Robustness of Large Language Models on Non-Functional Requirements Aware Code Generation
• Beyond Functional Correctness: Exploring Hallucinations in LLM-Generated Code
• InterTrans: Leveraging Transitive Intermediate Translations to Enhance LLM-based Code Translation
• Evolving Triple Knowledge-Augmented LLMs for Code Translation in Repository Context
• CATCODER: Repository-Level Code Generation with Relevant Code and Type Context
• CodeNet: A Large-Scale AI for Code Dataset for Learning a Diversity of Coding Tasks
• A Multi-Language Perspective on the Robustness of LLM Code Generation
• Leveraging Automated Unit Tests for Unsupervised Code Translation
• Specification-Driven Code Translation Powered by Large Language Models: How Far Are We?
• Code Translation with Compiler Representations
• Teaching Code LLMs to Use Autocompletion Tools in Repository-Level Code Generation
• RepoTransBench: A Real-World Multilingual Benchmark for Repository-Level Code Translation

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