FSE 2026
Sun 5 - Thu 9 July 2026 Montreal, Canada
Thu 9 Jul 2026 14:40 - 15:00 at MB 3.270 - Code translation and transformation 2 Chair(s): Wesley K.G. Assunção

Code translation transforms code between programming languages while preserving functionality, which is critical in software development and maintenance. While traditional learning-based code translation methods have limited effectiveness due to the lack of sufficient parallel training data, Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently advanced this field with their strong code generation and comprehension capabilities. However, code translated by LLMs still suffers from diverse quality issues, such as syntax and semantic errors. In this work, we propose \ourtool{}, a novel multi-agent system that eliminates the errors during LLM-based code translation. The main insight of \ourtool{} is to localize error-prone code blocks via fine-grained execution alignment between source and target code. We evaluate \ourtool{} on a newly constructed benchmark of recent programming tasks to mitigate data leakage. \ourtool{} outperforms the latest \unitrans{} by up to 33.3% in translation accuracy and achieves an average improvement of 56.7% over \agentless{} in program repair performance. We also conduct an ablation study and evaluate \ourtool{} across different LLMs, demonstrating its effectiveness and strong generalizability.

Thu 9 Jul

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14:00 - 15:30
Code translation and transformation 2Tool Demonstrations / Journal-First Paper / Research Papers at MB 3.270
Chair(s): Wesley K.G. Assunção North Carolina State University
14:00
20m
Talk
Post-Incorporating Code Structural Knowledge into Pretrained Models via ICL for Code Translation
Journal-First Paper
Yali Du Nanjing University, Hui Sun Nanjing University, National Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, China; Nanjing University, School of Artificial Intelligence, China, Ming Li Nanjing University
14:20
20m
Talk
TransLibEval: Demystify Large Language Models’ Capability in Third-party Library-targeted Code Translation
Research Papers
Pengyu Xue Shandong University, Kunwu Zheng Shandong University, Zhen Yang Shandong University, Yifei Pei Shandong University, Linhao Wu Shandong University, Jiahui Dong Shandong University, Xiapu Luo Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Yan Xiao Sun Yat-sen University, Fei Liu Shandong University, Yuxuan Zhang Shandong University, Xiran Lyu Shandong University, Xianhang Li Shandong University, Xuanyu Zhu Shandong University, Chengyi Wang Shandong University
Pre-print
14:40
20m
Talk
TransAgent: Enhancing LLM-Based Code Translation via Fine-Grained Execution Alignment
Research Papers
Zhiqiang Yuan Fudan University, Weitong Chen Fudan University, Hanlin Wang Fudan University, Xin Peng Fudan University, Zhenpeng Chen Tsinghua University, Yiling Lou University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
15:00
10m
Talk
CoRenameAgent: A Human-In-The-Loop, Multi-Agent Tool for Coordinated Rename Refactoring
Tool Demonstrations
Abhiram Bellur University of Colorado Boulder, Mohammed Raihan Ullah University of Colorado Boulder, Fraol Batole Tulane University, Mohit Kansara The University of Texas at Dallas, Masaharu Morimoto NEC Corporation, Kai Ishikawa NEC Corporation, Haifeng Chen NEC Laboratories America, Helena Klause JetBrains, Yaroslav Zharov JetBrains Research, Germany, Timofey Bryksin JetBrains Research, Tien N. Nguyen University of Texas at Dallas, Hridesh Rajan Tulane University, Nikolaos Tsantalis Concordia University, Danny Dig University of Colorado Boulder, JetBrains Research
15:10
20m
Talk
C2SaferRust: Transforming C Projects Into Safer Rust With NeuroSymbolic Techniques
Journal-First Paper
Vikram Nitin Columbia University, Rahul Krishna IBM Research, Luiz Lemos do Valle Columbia University, Baishakhi Ray Columbia University