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Topical: Learning Repository Embeddings from Source Code using Attention
Agathe Lherondelle, Varun Babbar, Yash Satsangi, Fran Silavong, Shaltiel Eloul, Sean Moran
This paper presents Topical, a novel deep neural network for repository level embeddings. Existing methods, reliant on natural language documentation or naive aggregation techniques, are outperformed by Topical's utilization of an attention mechanism. This mechanism generates repository-level representations from source code, full dependency graphs, and script level textual data. Trained on publicly accessible GitHub repositories, Topical surpasses multiple baselines in tasks such as repository auto-tagging, highlighting the attention mechanism's efficacy over traditional aggregation methods. Topical also demonstrates scalability and efficiency, making it a valuable contribution to repository-level representation computation. For further research, the accompanying tools, code, and training dataset are provided at: https://github.com/jpmorganchase/topical.
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