Pop Quiz! Can a Large Language Model Help With Reverse Engineering?. (arXiv:2202.01142v1 [cs.SE])

Large language models (such as OpenAI's Codex) have demonstrated impressive
zero-shot multi-task capabilities in the software domain, including code
explanation. In this work, we examine if this ability can be used to help with
reverse engineering. Specifically, we investigate prompting Codex to identify
the purpose, capabilities, and important variable names or values from code,
even when the code is produced through decompilation. Alongside an examination
of the model's responses in answering open-ended questions, we devise a
true/false quiz framework to …

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