[PROPOSAL] Paper review: code2vec

[vcoisne]

• Title: Code2Vec: learning distributed representations of code
• Author(s): TBD
• Short description: Paper review of learning distributed representations of code
• Author(s): TBD
• Categories: Machine Learning
• Deadlines: No

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• State: (proposed | writing | written | published)
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NOTE Please write in short lines so the review is easier to do.

[bzz]

JFYI as we know from https://github.com/src-d/reading-club#past-papers - code2seq is a followup paper from the same authors with improved architecture and better results.

[vcoisne]

@bzz should it be a code2seq paper review then? Do you or someone on your team has bandwidth to write it ?

[bzz]

I would be happy to take a stab as this next week, before/after FOSDEM as it is a fairly low-hanging fruit (comparing e.g \w refactoring one) and if @creachadair agrees.

Writeup like that usually takes about 2 days of work.

[bzz]

JFYI It's a really good time to do that right now, as https://code2seq.org/ was just released on top of already existing https://code2vec.org/

[vcoisne]

@bzz awesome, so the plan is to publish the week after Fosdem?

[bzz]

@bzz awesome, so the plan is to publish the week after Fosdem?

would be happy to start putting together a draft asap, but as mentioned in #272 (comment) - only after @creachadair 👍

[creachadair]

This sounds like a good idea to me. I do want to make sure we can still make timely progress on C# until that's stable, but otherwise I have no concerns.

[bzz]

I have started the draft last week and I would say it's half-ready.
Will try to find time, finish and share it for early review by the end of this week.

@vcoisne do you want it on medium or a company blog?

[vcoisne]

@bzz company blog + medium as a syndication platform :) Hopefully the migration to Ghost will be completed by then cc @marnovo

[bzz]

Asking, as so far I only posted to one OR another - formatting is different and takes a lot of time for me for each of those.

So, please let me know if that is not the case, but so far I'm planing to:

• finish initial draft in Gdoc
• submitting a PR to https://github.com/src-d/blog

[vcoisne]

@bzz we can do the formatting for you. No need to submit a PR to https://github.com/src-d/blog, just share with me the gdoc and we'll take it from there!

[bzz]

Initial blog post draft moved to DevRel/Blog on Team's GDrive.

It's still WIP but I hope to have some spare cycles next week to finish it!

[vcoisne]

@bzz thanks! Did you get a chance to work on it some more ? should we review it ?

[bzz]

Sorry for delay - this is the first time that I want to also include a notebook with the official code to reproduce the whole model right in the text of the blog post (in the spirit of the web-first, participatory science) and I've been spending all my cycles to get the Notebook running, which is now in reasonable state to share.

I will get back to the text and make a final pass over it this week and ping for review.
Thank you for the patience!

[bzz]

At last! Had some time this week to work on this and feel that it's almost ready 🎉🎉🎉
The latest draft in this doc.

Mad props to @m09 @creachadair and @Jan21 for proof-reading, copy-editing and otherwise improving it - please let me know if any of you guys would be open to co-author it on company's blog this and I'll be happy to add you!

One last thing that is left to improve later this week (and before publication) - I need to update the notebook to reproduces code2seq with a prep-process dataset that I already have, otherwise it's too CPU intensive and never finishes with correct results on Collab.