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Code translation converts programs between programming languages, frameworks, and representations while aiming to preserve behavior and sometimes improve safety or performance. Methods range from paired-data fine-tuning and intermediate representations to agent workflows that use static analysis, compilers, tests, and execution feedback to repair translations. Benchmarks increasingly test functional equivalence across popular and low-resource languages, framework migration, and repository-scale tasks, measuring runtime and resource use alongside pass rates. A central challenge is that syntactic similarity and limited tests do not guarantee semantic correctness, while stronger verification and whole-project context can raise costs and still miss edge cases.

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Large Language Models for Multilingual Code Intelligence: A Survey
Apr 27, 2026Chao Jiang, Dugang Liu, Cheng Wen +6Code Translation Code Generation
College of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Shenzhen University, China · Guangzhou Institute of Technology, Xidian University, China · Guangzhou University of Software, China +2
CodePivot: Bootstrapping Multilingual Transpilation in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning without Parallel Corpora
Apr 20, 2026Shangyu Li, Juyong Jiang, Meibo Ren +7Code Translation RL for Language Models
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · Monash University +1
Understanding Tool-Augmented Agents for Lean Formalization: A Factorial Analysis
Apr 16, 2026Ke Zhang, Patricio Gallardo, Maziar Raissi +1Code Translation LLM Agent Evaluation
University of California, Riverside.
From Translation to Superset: Benchmark-Driven Evolution of a Production AI Agent from Rust to Python
Apr 13, 2026Jinhua Wang, Biswa SenguptaCode Translation AI Coding Agents
LLM Suite Team, JP Morgan Chase & Co.
ReCodeAgent: A Multi-agent Workflow for Language-Agnostic Translation and Validation of Large-Scale Repositories
Apr 8, 2026Ali Reza Ibrahimzada, Brandon Paulsen, Daniel Kroening +1Code Translation Software Engineering Agents
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL, USA · Amazon Arlington, VA, USA · Amazon Seattle, WA, USA
ENCRUST: Encapsulated Substitution and Agentic Refinement on a Live Scaffold for Safe C-to-Rust Translation
Apr 6, 2026Hohyun Sim, Hyeonjoong Cho, Ali Shokri +2Code Translation LLM-Based Program Synthesis
Korea University, South Korea · University of Houston, United States · State University of New York Korea, South Korea +1
PCodeTrans: Translate Decompiled Pseudocode to Compilable and Executable Equivalent
Mar 16, 2026Yuxin Cui, Zeyu Gao, Shuxian He +2Code Translation Software Reverse Engineering
Tsinghua University · Wuhan University · Institute of Information Engineering, CAS
CangjieBench: Benchmarking LLMs on a Low-Resource General-Purpose Programming Language
Mar 15, 2026Junhang Cheng, Fang Liu, Jia Li +3Code Generation LLM Code Generation
Beihang University, Beijing, China · Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
Learning Bug Context for PyTorch-to-JAX Translation with LLMs
Oct 10, 2025Hung Phan, Son Vu, Tuan Dinh +3Code Translation LLM Code Generation
Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA · Department of Human Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA · Subquadratic AI, Miami, Florida, USA +1
From Legacy Fortran to Portable Kokkos: An Autonomous Agentic AI Workflow
Sep 15, 2025Sparsh Gupta, Kamalavasan Kamalakkannan, Maxim Moraru +2Code Translation Agentic Code Generation
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87544 USA · Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, Needham, MA 02492 USA
CrossTL: Hub-Based Translation of GPU Programs and the Preservation of Source Rules
Aug 28, 2025NRIPESH NIKETAN, VAATSALYA SHRIVASTVA, BHUSHAN SRIVASTAVA +1Code Translation
EyeMulator: Improving Code Language Models by Mimicking Human Visual Attention
Aug 22, 2025Yifan Zhang, Chen Huang, Yueke Zhang +5Code Translation LLM Fine-Tuning
Vanderbilt University1 · National University of Singapore2 · University of Notre Dame3

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Large Language Models for Multilingual Code Intelligence: A Survey

Chao Jiang, Dugang Liu, Cheng Wen, Zhiwu Xu+5

College of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Shenzhen University, China · Guangzhou Institute of Technology, Xidian University, China · Guangzhou University of Software, China+2

Code Translation Code Generation Code Language Models Multilingual Code Generation Cross-Lingual Transfer

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Large language models have transformed AI-assisted software engineering, but current research remains biased toward high-resource languages such as Python, with weaker performance in languages like Rust and OCaml. Since real-world systems are inherently polyglot, robust multilingual code intelligence is crucial. This survey focuses on two key tasks: multilingual code generation from shared natural-language requirements, and multilingual code translation that preserves semantics across languages. It reviews representative methods, benchmarks, and evaluation metrics, and highlights challenges and opportunities for trustworthy cross-language generalization.