Reassembly is Hard: A Reflection on Challenges and Strategies
Why this work is in the frame
A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
We create our own benchmark with various combinations of compilers, linkers, target ISAs, and compiler options. Our benchmark is created by compiling three source packages totaling 122 executable programs as follows. • GNU coreutils (v8.30): 107 executable programs • GNU binutils (v2.31.1): 15 executable programs. We consider all possible combinations of the following configurations in order to produce assembly files and binaries with diverse assembly expression patterns. • ISA: x86 and x86-64 • Compilers: GCC v7.5.0 and Clang v12.0 • Linkers: GNU ld v2.30 and GNU gold v1.15 • PIE/non-PIE: produce a PIE or a non-PIE • Optimization: -O0, -O1, -O2, -O3, -Os, and -Ofast
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.041 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it