A Multi-Modal Transformer-based Code Summarization Approach for Smart Contracts
Code comment has been an important part of computer programs, greatly facilitating the understanding and maintenance of source code. However, high-quality code comments are often unavailable in smart contracts, the increasingly popular programs that run on the blockchain. In this paper, we propose a Multi-Modal Transformer-based (MMTrans) code summarization approach for smart contracts. Specifically, the MMTrans learns the representation of source code from the two heterogeneous modalities of the Abstract Syntax Tree (AST), i.e., Structure-based Traversal (SBT) sequences and graphs. The SBT sequence provides the global semantic information of AST, while the graph convolution focuses on the local details. The MMTrans uses two encoders to extract both global and local semantic information from the two modalities respectively, and then uses a joint decoder to generate code comments. Both the encoders and the decoder employ the multi-head attention structure of the Transformer to enhance the ability to capture the long-range dependencies between code tokens. We build a dataset with over 300K <method, comment> pairs of smart contracts, and evaluate the MMTrans on it. The experimental results demonstrate that the MMTrans outperforms the state-of-the-art baselines in terms of four evaluation metrics by a substantial margin, and can generate higher quality comments.
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02:00 10mPaper | Exploiting Method Names to Improve Code Summarization: A Deliberation Multi-Task Learning Approach Research Pre-print Media Attached | ||
02:10 10mPaper | A Multi-Modal Transformer-based Code Summarization Approach for Smart Contracts Research Zhen Yang City University of Hong Kong, China, Jacky Keung City University of Hong Kong, Xiao Yu Wuhan University of Technology, Xiaodong Gu Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, Zhengyuan Wei City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Xiaoxue Ma , Miao ZHANG City University of Hong Kong Pre-print Media Attached | ||
02:20 10mPaper | Improving Code Summarization with Block-wise Abstract Syntax Tree Splitting Research Chen Lin , Zhichao Ouyang , Junqing Zhuang , Jianqiang Chen , Hui Li Department of Computer Science, Xiamen University, Rongxin Wu Xiamen University Pre-print Media Attached |
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