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Decompiling 2024: A Year of Resurgance in Decompilation Research
The year 2024 was a resurgant year for decompilation. Academic publications from that year made up nearly 30% of all top publications ever made in decompilation. In this post, I do a summarization and retrospective of both the academic and ideological progress of decompilation in 2024. Hint: decompilation research is back.
Both utilized LLMs to recover variable names, structures, types, and, in the case of DeGPT, code simplification (though very limited). For most of 2024, Dr. Cristina Cifuentes (the academic pioneer of decompilers) toured the world, giving talks on her work in shaping the last 30 years of research. If you are a rising expert (or a zany practitioner), I encourage you to contribute your knowledge to the Decompilation Wiki so it may continue to organize and guide the field.
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