# ASAP: Assembly-Source Aligned Pseudocode Refinement For Binary Decompilation

> ASAP aligns assembly and source representations during training, compresses assembly features into tokens, and supplies them alongside decompiler pseudocode to an LLM refiner. Masking and an assembly-advantage objective encourage the refiner to use low-level evidence.

- Authors: Yujian Zhuang; Dehong Gao; Qichao Zhang; Qijing Lai; Jiaxin Wang; Libin Yang; Xiaoyan Cai
- Venue: arXiv
- Status: Preprint
- Publication / posting date: September 30, 2026
- Date source: First arXiv submission date from the reviewed submission history; no formal publication was verified.
- First arXiv submission: September 30, 2026
- arXiv: 2610.06900
- Reviewed arXiv version: v1
- Sources reviewed: 2026-10-20
- Added to the catalog: 2026-10-20
- Original paper: <https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.06900>
- PDF: <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2610.06900v1>
- BibTeX: <https://awesomerea.org/papers/citations/paper-asap-decompilation.bib>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/papers/paper-asap-decompilation/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/papers/paper-asap-decompilation/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/papers/paper-asap-decompilation/index.md)

## Scope and limitations

Evaluation uses C adaptations of HumanEval and MBPP, x86-64 GCC 11.4 at O0–O3, and Ghidra 11.0.3 pseudocode. Re-execution means passing supplied tests, not proving equivalence. Identifier/comment recovery is not a dedicated component, and frontier-scale model training is not exhaustively evaluated.

## Why it fits this collection

Adds an assembly-informed refinement approach that explicitly documents the limits of its execution-test evidence.

## Publication and review notes

Both the abstract history and v1 HTML give 2026-09-30, despite the 2610 identifier prefix. The article is CC BY 4.0. No author artifact URL or code/model/data license was verified from the reviewed sources and focused search; referenced training datasets retain their own terms.

## Primary sources

1. <https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.06900v1>
2. <https://arxiv.org/html/2610.06900v1>

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