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About this paper
Xiangxin Fang, Lev Mukhanov
Researchers from Queen Mary University of London investigated Large Language Models' ability to perform peephole optimization on AArch64 assembly code, demonstrating that advanced reasoning mechanisms significantly improve functional correctness and can generate more optimal code than traditional compilers for certain transformations. The study emphasizes that current metrics like BLEU and EMR often inadequately assess the quality of optimized code, favoring syntactic and I/O accuracy instead.
Key insights
- LLMs with enhanced reasoning, such as GPT-o1, can achieve high functional correctness and sometimes generate more optimal code than traditional compilers for specific peephole optimizations.
- Conventional LLMs, even with fine-tuning, struggle with the precision and generalization required for correctness-critical compiler tasks, frequently producing syntactic and semantic errors.
- Traditional NLP metrics like BLEU and EMR are often insufficient for evaluating code quality; functional correctness (IO accuracy) and compilability (syntactic accuracy) better reflect optimization success.
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