September 30, 2020
Has anybody seen Facebook's Transcoder [1] in action? The code/model hasn't been made public yet.

What are its limitations?

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.03511
September 30, 2020
On Wednesday, 30 September 2020 at 14:08:05 UTC, Per Nordlöw wrote:
> Has anybody seen Facebook's Transcoder [1] in action? The code/model hasn't been made public yet.
>
> What are its limitations?
>

That it transpiles incorrectly and that when it works the resulting programs produce wrong outputs in way too many translations to be useful.

Basically an AI paper, not a tool.

The failure rate for toy programs is listed in appendix C.