The Mechanical Translation Hypothesis: LLM Cross-Language Code Translation Success Correlates with Instruction-Following Fidelity, Not Model Size

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) 2026 Preprint Open access

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Authors: Blake Musselman
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19024296
Cited by: 6

Fields of Study & Subjects

Natural Language Processing Techniques Translation Studies and Practices Text Readability and Simplification

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Publication date
14 March 2026
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Preprint