Curated Decompilation Research List

	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J
1	Title	Year	Conference	Venue Category	Top venues?	Technique	Type	Field	Cited	Link
2	Control flow analysis	1970	SCO	SE	No	CFG Recovery	Fundamental	SE	Yes
3	Restructuring pascal programs containing goto statements	1985	Computer Journal	SE	No	Control flow structuring	Fundamental	SE	Yes
4	A methodology for decompilation	1993	XIX Conferencia Latinoamericana de Inform atica	SE	No	Generic decompilation	Fundamental	Decompilation	No
5	Taming Control Flow: A Structured Approach to Eliminating Goto Statements	1994	ICCL	SE	No	Control flow structuring	Fundamental	SE	Yes
6	Reverse Compilation Techniques, C. Cifuentes	1994	PhD Diss		No	Generic decompilation	Fundamental	Decompilation	Yes
7	The Program Structure Tree: Computing Control Regions in Linear Time	1994	PLDI	PL	Yes	Control flow structuring	Fundamental	SE	Yes
8	Type-Based Decompilation (or Program Reconstruction via Type Reconstruction)	1999	ESOP	Security	No	Type inference	Fundamental	Decompilation	Yes
9	Static Disassembly of Obfuscated Binaries	2004	USENIX	Security	Yes	Lifting	Fundamental	Decompilation	Yes
10	Static Single Assignment for Decompilation, M. J. V. Emmerik	2007	PhD Diss		No	CFG Recovery	Fundamental	Decompilation	Yes
11	DIVINE: DIscovering Variables IN Executables	2007	VMCAI	SE	No	Type inference	Fundamental	Decompilation	Yes
12	BitBlaze: A New Approach to Computer Security via Binary Analysis	2008	ICISS	Security	No	Generic Bin Analysis	Application	Binary	Yes
13	Jakstab: A Static Analysis Platform for Binaries	2008	CAV	Security	No	Generic Bin Analysis	Application	Binary	Yes
14	Large-scale malware indexing using function-call graphs	2009	CCS	Security	Yes	Code Similarity	Application	Binary	Yes
15	Automatic Reverse Engineering of Data Structures from Binary Execution	2010	NDSS	Security	Yes	Type inference	Fundamental	Decompilation	Yes
16	Design of a Retargetable Decompiler for a Static Platform-Independent Malware Analysis	2011	IJSIA	Security	No	Generic decompilation	Fundamental	Decompilation	Yes
17	SmartDec: Approaching C++ Decompilation	2011	WCRE	Security	No	Generic decompilation	Fundamental	Decompilation	Yes
18	BAP: A Binary Analysis Platform	2011	CAV	Security	No	Generic Bin Analysis	Application	Binary	Yes
19	Howard: A Dynamic Excavator for Reverse Engineering Data Structures	2011	NDSS	Security	Yes	Type inference	Fundamental	Decompilation	Yes
20	MemPick: High-Level Data Structure Detection in C/C++ Binaries	2013	WCRE	Security	No	Type inference	Fundamental	Decompilation	Yes
21	Native x86 decompilation using Semantics-Preserving structural analysis and iterative Control-Flow structuring	2013	USENIX Security	Security	Yes	Control flow structuring	Fundamental	Decompilation	Yes
22	Recovering C++ Objects From Binaries Using Inter-Procedural Data-Flow Analysis	2014	PPREW	Security	No	Type inference	Fundamental	Decompilation	Yes
23	BYTEWEIGHT: Learning to Recognize Functions in Binary Code	2014	USENIX	Security	Yes	CFG - Func Recov	Fundamental	Binary	Yes
24	Recognizing functions in binaries with neural networks	2015	USENIX	Security	Yes	CFG - Func Recov	Fundamental	Binary	Yes
25	No More Gotos: Decompilation Using Pattern-Independent Control-Flow Structuring and Semantic-Preserving Transformations	2015	NDSS	Security	Yes	Control flow structuring	Fundamental	Decompilation	Yes
26	Scalable Graph-based Bug Search for Firmware Images	2016	CCS	Security	Yes	Code Similarity	Application	Binary	Yes
27	Helping johnny to analyze malware: A usability-optimized decompiler and malware analysis user study	2016	S&P	Security	Yes	Code quality	Fundamental	Decompilation	Yes
28	(State of) The Art of War: Techniques in Binary Analysis	2016	S&P	Security	Yes	Generic Bin Analysis	Application	Binary	Yes
29	From MinX to MinC: semantics-driven decompilation of recursive datatypes	2016	POPL	PL	Yes	Type inference	Fundamental	Binary	No
30	Polymorphic type inference for machine code	2016	PLDI	PL	Yes	Type inference	Fundamental	Decompilation	Yes
31	An in-depth analysis of disassembly on full-scale x86/x64 binaries	2016	USENIX	Security	Yes	CFG Recovery	Fundamental	Binary	Yes
32	Compiler-agnostic function detection in binaries	2017	EuroS&P	Security	No	CFG - Func Recov	Fundamental	Binary	Yes
33	discovRE: Efficient Cross-Architecture Identification of Bugs in Binary Code	2017	NDSS	Security	Yes	Code Similarity	Application	Binary	Yes
34	TIE: Principled reverse engineering of types in binary programs	2017	NDSS	Security	Yes	Type inference	Fundamental	Decompilation	Yes
35	Evolving exact decompilation	2018	BAR	Security	No	Generic decompilation	Fundamental	Decompilation	Yes
36	Meaningful variable names for decompiled code: A machine translation approach	2018	ICPC	PL	No	Naming	Fundamental	Decompilation	Yes
37	Using Recurrent Neural Networks for Decompilation	2018	SANER	SE	No	Neural decompilation	Fundamental	Decompilation	Yes
38	Debin: Predicting debug information in stripped binaries	2018	CCS	Security	Yes	Naming	Fundamental	Decompilation	Yes
39	Revenge is a dish served cold: Debug-oriented malware decompilation and reassembly	2019	ROOTS		No	Security analysis	Application	Decompilation	Yes
40	Function naming in stripped binaries using neural networks	2019	Arxiv		No	Naming	App. Re.	Binary	Yes
41	Towards neural decompilation	2019	Arxiv		No	Neural decompilation	Fundamental	Decompilation	Yes
42	DIRE: A Neural Approach to Decompiled Identifier Naming	2019	ASE	SE	Yes	Naming	Fundamental	Decompilation	Yes
43	Coda: An end-to-end neural program decompiler	2019	NeurIPS	ML	Yes	Neural decompilation	Fundamental	Decompilation	Yes
44	Sound C Code Decompilation for a subset of x86-64 Binaries	2020	SEFM	SE	No	Generic decompilation	Fundamental	Decompilation	Yes
45	A comb for decompiled C code	2020	AsiaCCS	Security	No	Control flow structuring	Fundamental	Decompilation	Yes
46	Datalog Disassembly	2020	USENIX Security	Security	Yes	CFG recovery	Fundamental	Binary	Yes
47	How far we have come: Testing decompilation correctness of C decompilers	2020	ISSTA	SE	Yes	Code quality	Measurement	Decompilation	Yes
48	The Industrial Age of Hacking	2020	USENIX	Security	Yes	Human Reversing	Application	Binary	Yes
49	SCRUTINIZER: Detecting Code Reuse in Malware via Decompilation and Machine Learning	2021	DIMVA	Security	No	Code Similarity	Application	Decompilation	Yes
50	Scrutinizer: Detecting code reuse in malware via decompilation and machine learning	2021	DIMVA	Seucirty	No	Code Similarity	Application	Decompilation	Yes
51	Finding Inlined Functions in Optimized Binaries	2021	Arxiv		No	Code Similarity	Application	Decompilation	Yes
52	Neutron: an attention-based neural decompiler	2021	Cybersecurity	Security	No	Neural decompilation	Fundamental	Decompilation	Yes
53	Semantics-recovering decompilation through neural machine translation	2021	Arxiv		No	Neural decompilation	Fundamental	Decompilation	Yes
54	Sok: All you ever wanted to know about x86/x64 binary disassembly but were afraid to ask	2021	S&P	Security	Yes	CFG Recovery	Measurement	Binary	Yes
55	Refining Indirect Call Targets at the Binary Level	2021	NDSS	Security	Yes	Indirect Call Rec	Fundamental	Binary	Yes
56	Osprey: Recovery of variable and data structure via probabilistic analysis for stripped binary	2021	S&P	Security	Yes	Type inference	Fundamental	Binary	Yes
57	Automatically mitigating vulnerabilities in x86 binary programs via partially recompilable decompilation	2022	Arxiv		No	Patching	App. Re.	Decompilation	Yes
58	The Convergence of Source Code and Binary Vulnerability Discovery – A Case Study	2022	AsiaCCS	Security	No	Security analysis	Application	Decompilation	Yes
59	dewolf: Improving Decompilation by leveraging User Surveys	2022	Arxiv		No	Code quality	Fundamental	Decompilation	Yes
60	Boosting Neural Networks to Decompile Optimized Binaries	2022	ACSAC	Security	No	Neural decompilation	Fundamental	Decompilation	Yes
61	Beyond the C: Retargetable Decompilation using Neural Machine Translation	2022	Arxiv		No	Neural decompilation	Fundamental	Decompilation	Yes
62	Cornucopia: A Framework for Feedback Guided Generation of Binaries	2022	ASE	SE	Yes	Dataset generation	Measurement	Binary	Yes
63	DnD: A Cross-Architecture Deep Neural Network Decompiler	2022	USENIX	Security	Yes	Targetted Decompilation	App. Re.	Decompilation	Yes
64	How Machine Learning Is Solving the Binary Function Similarity Problem	2022	USENIX	Security	Yes	Code Similarity	Application	Binary	Yes
65	Ground truth for binary disassembly is not easy	2022	USENIX Security	Security	Yes	CFG recovery	Measurement	Binary	Yes
66	Decomperson: How Humans Decompile and What We Can Learn From It	2022	USENIX Security	Security	Yes	Code quality	Measurement	Decompilation	Yes
67	RE-Mind: a First Look Inside the Mind of a Reverse Engineer	2022	USENIX	Security	Yes	Human Reversing	Application	Binary	Yes
68	Augmenting decompiler output with learned variable names and types	2022	USENIX	Security	Yes	Type inference	Fundamental	Decompilation	Yes
69	Binpointer: towards precise, sound, and scalable binary-level pointer analysis.	2022	CC			CFG Recovery	Fundamental	Decompilation	Yes
70	Static Analysis of JNI Programs via Binary Decompilation	2023	TSE	SE	No	Security analysis	Application	Decompilation	Yes
71	CFG2Vec: Hierarchical graph neural network for cross-architectural software reverse engineering	2023	ICSE-SEIP	SE	No	CFG recovery	Fundamental	Binary	Yes
72	BIRD: A Binary Intermediate Representation for Formally Verified Decompilation of X86-64 Binaries	2023	TAP	SE	No	Intermediate representation	Fundamental	Binary	Yes
73	DIRE and its Data: Neural Decompiled Variable Renamings with Respect to Software Class	2023	TSEM	SE	No	Naming	Measurement	Decompilation	Yes
74	TypeSqueezer: When Static Recovery of Function Signatures for Binary Executables Meets Dynamic Analysis	2023	CCS	Security	Yes	Type inference	Fundamental	Binary	Yes
75	ARMore: Pushing Love Back Into Binaries	2023	USENIX	Security	Yes	Binary instrumentation	Application	Binary	Yes
76	QueryX: Symbolic Query on Decompiled Code for Finding Bugs in COTS Binaries	2023	S&P	Security	Yes	Security analysis	Application	Decompilation	Yes
77	Decompiling x86 Deep Neural Network Executables	2023	USENIX	Security	Yes	Targetted Decompilation	App. Re.	Decompilation	Yes
78	LLM4Decompile: Decompiling Binary Code with Large Language Models	2024	Arxiv		No	Neural decompilation	Fundamental	Decompilation	Yes
79	A Taxonomy of C Decompiler Fidelity Issues	2024	USENIX	Security	Yes	Code quality	Fundamental	Decompilation	Yes
80	Ahoy SAILR! There is No Need to DREAM of C: A Compiler-Aware Structuring Algorithm for Binary Decompilation	2024	USENIX	Security	Yes	Control flow structuring	Fundamental	Decompilation	Yes
81	TYGR: Type Inference on Stripped Binaries using Graph Neural Networks	2024	USENIX	Security	Yes	Type inference	Fundamental	Decompilation	Yes
82	D-Helix: A Generic Decompiler Testing Framework Using Symbolic Differentiation	2024	USENIX	Security	Yes	Code quality	Measurement	Decompilation	Yes
83	DeGPT: Optimizing Decompiler Output with LLM	2024	NDSS	Security	Yes	Decomp Improve	App. Re.	Decompilation	Yes
84	"Len or index or count, anything but v1": Predicting Variable Names in Decompilation Output with Transfer Learning	2024	S&P	Security	Yes	Naming	App. Re.	Decompilation	Yes
85	ReSym: Harnessing LLMs to Recover Variable and Data Structure Symbols from Stripped Binaries	2024	CCS	Security	Yes	Naming	App. Re.	Decompilation	Yes	https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3658644.3670340
86	Verifiably Correct Lifting of Position-Independent x86-64 Binaries to Symbolized Assembly	2024	CCS	Security	Yes	Lifting	Fundamental	Binary	Yes
87	Evaluating the Effectiveness of Decompilers	2024	ISSTA	Security	No	Code quality	Measurement	Decompilation	Yes	https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3650212.3652144
88	R2I: A Relative Readability Metric for Decompiled Code	2024	FSE	SE	Yes	Code quality	Measurement	Decompilation	Yes	https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3643744
89	Automatically mitigating vulnerabilities in x86 binary programs via partially recompilable decompilation	2024	TDSC	SE	No	Security analysis	App. Re.	Decompilation	Yes	https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/2025-276-paper.pdf
90	Unleashing the Power of Generative Model in Recovering Variable Names from Stripped Binary	2025	NDSS	Security	Yes	Naming	App. Re.	Decompilation	Yes	https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10740475
91	TRex: Practical Type Reconstruction for Binary Code	2025	USENIX	Security	Yes	Type inference	Fundamental	Decompilation	Yes	https://www.usenix.org/system/files/usenixsecurity25-bosamiya.pdf
92	DecLLM: LLM-Augmented Recompilable Decompilation for Enabling Programmatic Use of Decompiled Code	2025	ISSTA	SE	Yes	Recompilation	Fundamental	Decompilation	Yes	https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3728958
93	PyLingual : Toward Perfect Decompilation of Evolving High-Level Languages	2025	S&P	Security	Yes	Other Language (Py)	Misc	Non-binary	Yes	https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=11023256
94	Walking The Last Mile: Studying Decompiler Output Correction in Practice	2025	CCS	Security	Yes	Other Language (Py)	Misc	Non-binary	Yes	https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3719027.3765040
95	Recover Function Signature from Combined Constraints	2025	CCS	Security	Yes	Type inference (func sig)	Fundamental	Decompilation	Yes	https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3719027.3765089
96	Unleashing the Power of Generative Model in Recovering Variable Names from Stripped Binary	2025	NDSS	Security	Yes	Naming	App. Re.	Decompilation	Yes	https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/2025-276-paper.pdf
97	SoK: No Goto, No Cry? The Fairy Tale of Flawless Control-Flow Structuring	2025	EuroS&P	Security	No	Control flow structuring	Measurement	Decompilation	Yes	https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11129273
98	Bin2Wrong: a Unified Fuzzing Framework for Uncovering Semantic Errors in {Binary-to-C} Decompilers	2025	ATC	OS	No	Code quality	Fundamental	Decompilation	Yes	https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc25/presentation/yang-zao
99	An Empirical Study of C Decompilers: Performance Metrics and Error Taxonomy	2025	AisaCCS	Security	No	Code quality	Measurement	Decompilation	Yes	https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3708821.3733877
100	Benchmarking Binary Type Inference Techniques in Decompilers	2025	SURE	Security	No	Type inference	Measurement	Decompilation	No