Can Rager

20 papers A* 4Journal 15Unranked 1
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
CoRR
Natalie Shapira, Chris Wendler, Avery Yen, Gabriele Sarti, Koyena Pal, Olivia Floody, Adam Belfki, Alexander R. Loftus, Aditya Ratan Jannali, Nikhil Prakash, Jasmine Cui, Giordano Rogers, Jannik Brinkmann, Can Rager, Amir Zur, Michael Ripa, Aruna Sankaranarayanan, David Atkinson, Rohit Gandikota, Jaden Fiotto-Kaufman, Eunjeong Hwang, Hadas Orgad, P. Sam Sahil, Negev Taglicht, Tomer Shabtay, Atai Ambus, Nitay Alon, Shiri Oron, Ayelet Gordon-Tapiero, Yotam Kaplan, Vered Shwartz, Tamar Rott Shaham, Christoph Riedl, Reuth Mirsky, Maarten Sap, David Manheim, Tomer Ullman, David Bau
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Aditya Singh, Zihang Wen, Srujananjali Medicherla, Adam Karvonen, Can Rager
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Can Rager, Chris Wendler, Rohit Gandikota, David Bau
2025 A* conf
ICLR
Jaden Fried Fiotto-Kaufman, Alexander Russell Loftus, Eric Todd, Jannik Brinkmann, Koyena Pal, Dmitrii Troitskii, Michael Ripa, Adam Belfki, Can Rager, Caden Juang, Aaron Mueller, Samuel Marks, Arnab Sen Sharma, Francesca Lucchetti, Nikhil Prakash, Carla E. Brodley, Arjun Guha, Jonathan Bell, Byron C. Wallace, David Bau
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Ekdeep Singh Lubana, Can Rager, Sai Sumedh R. Hindupur, Valérie Costa, Greta Tuckute, Oam Patel, Sonia Krishna Murthy, Thomas Fel, Daniel Wurgaft, Eric J. Bigelow, Johnny Lin, Demba E. Ba, Martin Wattenberg, Fernanda B. Viégas, Melanie Weber, Aaron Mueller
2025 A* conf
ICML
Adam Karvonen, Can Rager, Johnny Lin, Curt Tigges, Joseph Isaac Bloom, David Chanin, Yeu-Tong Lau, Eoin Farrell, Callum McDougall, Kola Ayonrinde, Demian Till, Matthew Wearden, Arthur Conmy, Samuel Marks, Neel Nanda
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Adam Karvonen, Can Rager, Johnny Lin, Curt Tigges, Joseph Isaac Bloom, David Chanin, Yeu-Tong Lau, Eoin Farrell, Callum McDougall, Kola Ayonrinde, Matthew Wearden, Arthur Conmy, Samuel Marks, Neel Nanda
2025 A* conf
ICLR
Samuel Marks, Can Rager, Eric J. Michaud, Yonatan Belinkov, David Bau, Aaron Mueller
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Adam Karvonen, Can Rager, Samuel Marks, Neel Nanda
2024 A* conf
NeurIPS
Adam Karvonen, Benjamin Wright, Can Rager, Rico Angell, Jannik Brinkmann, Logan Smith, Claudio Mayrink Verdun, David Bau, Samuel Marks
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Adam Karvonen, Benjamin Wright, Can Rager, Rico Angell, Jannik Brinkmann, Logan Smith, Claudio Mayrink Verdun, David Bau, Samuel Marks
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Jaden Fiotto-Kaufman, Alexander R. Loftus, Eric Todd, Jannik Brinkmann, Caden Juang, Koyena Pal, Can Rager, Aaron Mueller, Samuel Marks, Arnab Sen Sharma, Francesca Lucchetti, Michael Ripa, Adam Belfki, Nikhil Prakash, Sumeet Multani, Carla E. Brodley, Arjun Guha, Jonathan Bell, Byron C. Wallace, David Bau
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Samuel Marks, Can Rager, Eric J. Michaud, Yonatan Belinkov, David Bau, Aaron Mueller
2024 J jnl
CoRR
Aaron Mueller, Jannik Brinkmann, Millicent L. Li, Samuel Marks, Koyena Pal, Nikhil Prakash, Can Rager, Aruna Sankaranarayanan, Arnab Sen Sharma, Jiuding Sun, Eric Todd, David Bau, Yonatan Belinkov
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Michael Igorevich Ivanitskiy, Rusheb Shah, Alex F. Spies, Tilman Räuker, Dan Valentine, Can Rager, Lucia Quirke, Chris Mathwin, Guillaume Corlouer, Cecilia G. Diniz Behn, Samy Wu Fung
2023 J jnl
CoRR
James Dao, Yeu-Tong Lau, Can Rager, Jett Janiak
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Aaquib Syed, Can Rager, Arthur Conmy
2023 conf
UniReps
Michael I. Ivanitskiy, Alex F. Spies, Tilman Räuker, Guillaume Corlouer, Chris Mathwin, Lucia Quirke, Can Rager, Rusheb Shah, Dan Valentine, Cecilia G. Diniz Behn, Katsumi Inoue, Samy Wu Fung
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Can Rager, Kyle Webster
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Michael I. Ivanitskiy, Alex F. Spies, Tilman Räuker, Guillaume Corlouer, Chris Mathwin, Lucia Quirke, Can Rager, Rusheb Shah, Dan Valentine, Cecilia G. Diniz Behn, Katsumi Inoue, Samy Wu Fung
src/main.rs
← Index src/main.rs rust
mod highlight;

use std::collections::BTreeMap;
use std::fs;
use std::io::Read;
use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
use std::time::Instant;

use walkdir::WalkDir;

use highlight::highlight_code;

/// Above this threshold the file is read in full and classified
/// (text or binary) based on its complete content.
const FULL_READ_LIMIT: u64 = 4_000_000; // 4 MB
/// For files larger than the threshold above, we only read a preview
/// of this size (so we never load huge files fully into memory).
const PREVIEW_BYTES: usize = 16_384;
/// How many bytes of binary content to show in the hex dump.
const HEXDUMP_BYTES: usize = 4096;

struct FileResult {
    rel_path: PathBuf, // relative path of the original file
    out_rel: PathBuf,  // relative path of the generated .html file (inside out/)
    label: String,     // label shown in the badge (language, or "binary")
}

enum Unreadable {
    IoError(PathBuf),
}

enum Content {
    /// Successfully decoded text. `truncated` indicates whether the file
    /// is larger than what was actually read (very large files: preview only).
    Text { content: String, truncated: bool, total_size: u64 },
    /// Content that isn't valid UTF-8 text: we show a hex dump instead
    /// of trying to decode it.
    Binary { preview: Vec<u8>, total_size: u64, truncated: bool },
}

/// Reads a file safely: for small files, reads everything and classifies
/// text/binary based on the full content; for large files, reads only a
/// prefix, to avoid loading huge files into memory.
fn read_content(path: &Path, total_size: u64) -> std::io::Result<Content> {
    if total_size <= FULL_READ_LIMIT {
        let bytes = fs::read(path)?;
        match String::from_utf8(bytes) {
            Ok(s) => Ok(Content::Text {
                content: s,
                truncated: false,
                total_size,
            }),
            Err(e) => Ok(Content::Binary {
                preview: e.into_bytes(),
                total_size,
                truncated: false,
            }),
        }
    } else {
        let mut f = fs::File::open(path)?;
        let mut buf = vec![0u8; PREVIEW_BYTES];
        let n = f.read(&mut buf)?;
        buf.truncate(n);

        match std::str::from_utf8(&buf) {
            Ok(s) => Ok(Content::Text {
                content: s.to_string(),
                truncated: true,
                total_size,
            }),
            Err(e) => {
                let valid_up_to = e.valid_up_to();
                // If the error is only due to cutting a multi-byte
                // character in half (common when reading an arbitrary
                // prefix of a text file), still treat it as text.
                if valid_up_to > 0 && buf.len() - valid_up_to <= 4 {
                    let s = std::str::from_utf8(&buf[..valid_up_to]).unwrap().to_string();
                    Ok(Content::Text {
                        content: s,
                        truncated: true,
                        total_size,
                    })
                } else {
                    Ok(Content::Binary {
                        preview: buf,
                        total_size,
                        truncated: true,
                    })
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

/// Tree node used to build the index (index.html)
#[derive(Default)]
struct Node {
    dirs: BTreeMap<String, Node>,
    files: Vec<(String, String, PathBuf)>, // (display_name, label, href relative to the index)
}

impl Node {
    fn insert_file(&mut self, components: &[String], display_name: String, label: String, href: PathBuf) {
        if components.is_empty() {
            self.files.push((display_name, label, href));
        } else {
            let head = &components[0];
            let child = self.dirs.entry(head.clone()).or_default();
            child.insert_file(&components[1..], display_name, label, href);
        }
    }

    fn render(&self, out: &mut String) {
        out.push_str("<ul class=\"tree\">\n");
        for (name, node) in &self.dirs {
            out.push_str(&format!(
                "<li class=\"dir\"><span class=\"dir-name\">\u{1F4C1} {}</span>\n",
                escape_html(name)
            ));
            node.render(out);
            out.push_str("</li>\n");
        }
        for (name, label, href) in &self.files {
            out.push_str(&format!(
                "<li class=\"file\"><a href=\"{}\">\u{1F4C4} {}</a> <span class=\"badge\">{}</span></li>\n",
                href.to_string_lossy().replace('\\', "/"),
                escape_html(name),
                escape_html(label)
            ));
        }
        out.push_str("</ul>\n");
    }
}

fn main() {
    let args: Vec<String> = std::env::args().collect();
    let input_dir = args.get(1).cloned().unwrap_or_else(|| ".".to_string());
    let output_dir = args.get(2).cloned().unwrap_or_else(|| "out".to_string());
    // Extra directory names to exclude, optional, comma-separated
    // (e.g. "node_modules,.git"). Nothing is excluded by default:
    // the generator includes everything it finds, including
    // __pycache__, compiled files, binaries, etc.
    let extra_excludes: Vec<String> = args
        .get(3)
        .map(|s| s.split(',').map(|p| p.trim().to_string()).filter(|p| !p.is_empty()).collect())
        .unwrap_or_default();

    let input = PathBuf::from(&input_dir);
    let output = PathBuf::from(&output_dir);

    if !input.is_dir() {
        eprintln!("Error: '{}' is not a valid directory.", input.display());
        std::process::exit(1);
    }

    if let Err(e) = fs::create_dir_all(&output) {
        eprintln!("Error creating the output directory: {e}");
        std::process::exit(1);
    }

    // Absolute path of the output directory, so we can exclude it from the
    // scan in case it's nested inside the input directory (e.g. input=".",
    // output="out"). This is the only automatic exclusion and it can't be
    // turned off: it only prevents the program from processing the files
    // it is currently writing.
    let output_abs = fs::canonicalize(&output).unwrap_or_else(|_| output.clone());

    println!("Scanning '{}' -> '{}'", input.display(), output.display());
    if !extra_excludes.is_empty() {
        println!("Directories excluded on request: {}", extra_excludes.join(", "));
    }
    let start = Instant::now();

    let mut results: Vec<FileResult> = Vec::new();
    let mut unreadable: Vec<Unreadable> = Vec::new();
    let mut n_binary = 0usize;
    let mut n_truncated = 0usize;

    for entry in WalkDir::new(&input)
        .into_iter()
        .filter_entry(|e| {
            if e.file_type().is_dir() {
                if let Some(name) = e.file_name().to_str() {
                    if extra_excludes.iter().any(|x| x == name) {
                        return false;
                    }
                }
                if let Ok(abs) = fs::canonicalize(e.path()) {
                    if abs == output_abs {
                        return false;
                    }
                }
            }
            true
        })
    {
        let entry = match entry {
            Ok(e) => e,
            Err(_) => continue,
        };

        if !entry.file_type().is_file() {
            continue;
        }

        let path = entry.path();
        let rel_path = match path.strip_prefix(&input) {
            Ok(p) => p.to_path_buf(),
            Err(_) => path.to_path_buf(),
        };

        let meta = match fs::metadata(path) {
            Ok(m) => m,
            Err(_) => {
                unreadable.push(Unreadable::IoError(rel_path));
                continue;
            }
        };

        let content = match read_content(path, meta.len()) {
            Ok(c) => c,
            Err(_) => {
                unreadable.push(Unreadable::IoError(rel_path));
                continue;
            }
        };

        let syntax_lang = detect_language(path);

        let (body_html, label, note): (String, String, Option<String>) = match &content {
            Content::Text { content, truncated, total_size } => {
                let body = highlight_code(content, syntax_lang);
                let note = if *truncated {
                    n_truncated += 1;
                    Some(format!(
                        "Truncated preview: showing the first {} bytes out of {} total.",
                        content.len(),
                        total_size
                    ))
                } else {
                    None
                };
                (body, syntax_lang.to_string(), note)
            }
            Content::Binary { preview, total_size, truncated } => {
                n_binary += 1;
                let dump = hex_dump(preview, HEXDUMP_BYTES);
                let shown = preview.len().min(HEXDUMP_BYTES);
                let note = Some(format!(
                    "Binary file: {} bytes total. Showing the first {} bytes as hex.{}",
                    total_size,
                    shown,
                    if *truncated { " (only the first bytes of the file were read)" } else { "" }
                ));
                (escape_html(&dump), "binary".to_string(), note)
            }
        };

        let mut out_rel = rel_path.clone();
        let new_name = format!(
            "{}.html",
            out_rel.file_name().unwrap_or_default().to_string_lossy()
        );
        out_rel.set_file_name(new_name);

        let out_path = output.join(&out_rel);
        if let Some(parent) = out_path.parent() {
            let _ = fs::create_dir_all(parent);
        }

        let depth = out_rel.components().count().saturating_sub(1);
        let back_to_index = "../".repeat(depth);

        let html = render_file_html(
            &rel_path.to_string_lossy(),
            &label,
            &body_html,
            note.as_deref(),
            &back_to_index,
        );

        if fs::write(&out_path, html).is_ok() {
            results.push(FileResult {
                rel_path,
                out_rel,
                label,
            });
        }
    }

    // Build the tree for the index
    let mut root = Node::default();
    for r in &results {
        let components: Vec<String> = r
            .rel_path
            .parent()
            .map(|p| {
                p.components()
                    .map(|c| c.as_os_str().to_string_lossy().to_string())
                    .filter(|s| !s.is_empty())
                    .collect()
            })
            .unwrap_or_default();
        let display_name = r
            .rel_path
            .file_name()
            .unwrap_or_default()
            .to_string_lossy()
            .to_string();
        root.insert_file(
            &components,
            display_name,
            r.label.clone(),
            r.out_rel.clone(),
        );
    }

    let mut tree_html = String::new();
    root.render(&mut tree_html);

    let index_html = render_index_html(&tree_html, results.len(), n_binary, n_truncated);
    let _ = fs::write(output.join("index.html"), index_html);

    let elapsed = start.elapsed();
    println!(
        "Done in {:.2?}: {} files included ({} binary, {} with truncated preview), {} unreadable.",
        elapsed,
        results.len(),
        n_binary,
        n_truncated,
        unreadable.len()
    );
    for u in &unreadable {
        match u {
            Unreadable::IoError(p) => println!("  unreadable (I/O error): {}", p.display()),
        }
    }
    println!("Open {}/index.html in your browser.", output.display());
}

/// Produces a hex dump (in the style of `xxd -C`) of the first `limit` bytes.
fn hex_dump(bytes: &[u8], limit: usize) -> String {
    let show = &bytes[..bytes.len().min(limit)];
    let mut out = String::with_capacity(show.len() * 4);
    for (i, chunk) in show.chunks(16).enumerate() {
        let offset = i * 16;
        out.push_str(&format!("{:08x}  ", offset));
        for (j, b) in chunk.iter().enumerate() {
            out.push_str(&format!("{:02x} ", b));
            if j == 7 {
                out.push(' ');
            }
        }
        let missing = 16usize.saturating_sub(chunk.len());
        for _ in 0..missing {
            out.push_str("   ");
        }
        out.push_str(" |");
        for b in chunk {
            let c = *b;
            if (0x20..0x7f).contains(&c) {
                out.push(c as char);
            } else {
                out.push('.');
            }
        }
        out.push_str("|\n");
    }
    out
}

/// Determines the language (used to pick syntax-highlighting rules)
/// from the file's name/extension. This is only used when the content
/// turns out to actually be text; binary files are classified as such
/// regardless by read_content.
fn detect_language(path: &Path) -> &'static str {
    let file_name = path
        .file_name()
        .map(|s| s.to_string_lossy().to_lowercase())
        .unwrap_or_default();

    match file_name.as_str() {
        "dockerfile" => return "dockerfile",
        "makefile" | "gnumakefile" => return "makefile",
        "cmakelists.txt" => return "cmake",
        ".gitignore" | ".dockerignore" | ".npmignore" => return "plaintext",
        "cargo.toml" | "cargo.lock" => return "ini",
        _ => {}
    }

    let ext = path
        .extension()
        .map(|s| s.to_string_lossy().to_lowercase())
        .unwrap_or_default();

    match ext.as_str() {
        "py" | "pyw" | "pyi" => "python",
        "rs" => "rust",
        "js" | "mjs" | "cjs" => "javascript",
        "jsx" => "javascript",
        "ts" => "typescript",
        "tsx" => "typescript",
        "java" => "java",
        "c" => "c",
        "h" => "c",
        "hpp" | "hh" | "hxx" => "cpp",
        "cpp" | "cc" | "cxx" => "cpp",
        "cs" => "csharp",
        "go" => "go",
        "rb" => "ruby",
        "php" => "php",
        "html" | "htm" => "xml",
        "css" => "css",
        "scss" | "sass" => "scss",
        "less" => "less",
        "json" => "json",
        "xml" => "xml",
        "yaml" | "yml" => "yaml",
        "toml" | "ini" | "cfg" | "conf" => "ini",
        "sh" | "bash" | "zsh" => "bash",
        "sql" => "sql",
        "md" | "markdown" => "markdown",
        "kt" | "kts" => "kotlin",
        "swift" => "swift",
        "lua" => "lua",
        "r" => "r",
        "pl" | "pm" => "perl",
        "groovy" | "gradle" => "groovy",
        "vb" => "vbnet",
        "graphql" | "gql" => "graphql",
        "diff" | "patch" => "diff",
        "bat" | "cmd" => "dos",
        "ps1" => "powershell",
        "vue" => "xml",
        "txt" => "plaintext",
        _ => "plaintext",
    }
}

fn escape_html(s: &str) -> String {
    let mut out = String::with_capacity(s.len());
    for c in s.chars() {
        match c {
            '&' => out.push_str("&amp;"),
            '<' => out.push_str("&lt;"),
            '>' => out.push_str("&gt;"),
            '"' => out.push_str("&quot;"),
            '\'' => out.push_str("&#39;"),
            _ => out.push(c),
        }
    }
    out
}

const STYLE: &str = r#"
:root {
  --bg: #0d1117;
  --panel: #161b22;
  --text: #c9d1d9;
  --muted: #8b949e;
  --accent: #58a6ff;
  --border: #30363d;
}
* { box-sizing: border-box; }
body {
  margin: 0;
  background: var(--bg);
  color: var(--text);
  font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
}
header {
  padding: 14px 20px;
  background: var(--panel);
  border-bottom: 1px solid var(--border);
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  gap: 12px;
  flex-wrap: wrap;
}
header a { color: var(--accent); text-decoration: none; font-weight: 600; }
header a:hover { text-decoration: underline; }
.path { color: var(--muted); font-size: 0.9em; word-break: break-all; }
.note {
  padding: 10px 20px;
  background: #21262d;
  border-bottom: 1px solid var(--border);
  color: var(--muted);
  font-size: 0.85em;
}
main { padding: 0; }
pre {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 16px 20px 40px 20px;
  overflow-x: auto;
  font-size: 13px;
  line-height: 1.5;
}
code { font-family: "SFMono-Regular", Consolas, "Liberation Mono", Menlo, monospace; }
.container { max-width: 1000px; margin: 30px auto; padding: 0 20px 60px; }
h1 { font-size: 1.6em; }
.meta { color: var(--muted); font-size: 0.9em; margin-bottom: 20px; }
ul.tree { list-style: none; padding-left: 18px; margin: 6px 0; }
ul.tree > li { margin: 4px 0; }
.dir-name { font-weight: 600; color: var(--text); }
.file a { color: var(--accent); text-decoration: none; }
.file a:hover { text-decoration: underline; }
.badge {
  display: inline-block;
  font-size: 0.72em;
  color: var(--muted);
  border: 1px solid var(--border);
  border-radius: 10px;
  padding: 1px 8px;
  margin-left: 6px;
}
.skipped { color: var(--muted); font-size: 0.85em; margin-top: 30px; }

/* Syntax highlighting: generated in Rust, no JavaScript involved. */
.c { color: #8b949e; font-style: italic; }
.s { color: #a5d6ff; }
.n { color: #79c0ff; }
.k { color: #ff7b72; font-weight: 600; }
"#;

fn render_file_html(rel_path: &str, label: &str, body_html: &str, note: Option<&str>, back_to_index: &str) -> String {
    let title = escape_html(rel_path);
    let note_html = match note {
        Some(n) => format!("<div class=\"note\">{}</div>\n", escape_html(n)),
        None => String::new(),
    };
    format!(
        r#"<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>{title}</title>
<style>{STYLE}</style>
</head>
<body>
<header>
  <a href="{back_to_index}index.html">&larr; Index</a>
  <span class="path">{title}</span>
  <span class="badge">{label}</span>
</header>
{note_html}<main>
<pre><code>{body_html}</code></pre>
</main>
</body>
</html>
"#
    )
}

fn render_index_html(tree_html: &str, n_ok: usize, n_binary: usize, n_truncated: usize) -> String {
    let mut extra = String::new();
    if n_binary > 0 {
        extra.push_str(&format!(
            "<p class=\"skipped\">{} binary files included with a hex-dump preview.</p>",
            n_binary
        ));
    }
    if n_truncated > 0 {
        extra.push_str(&format!(
            "<p class=\"skipped\">{} very large files shown as a truncated preview only.</p>",
            n_truncated
        ));
    }

    let folder_emoji = '\u{1F4C2}';
    format!(
        r#"<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Source index</title>
<style>{STYLE}</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<h1>{folder_emoji} Source index</h1>
<p class="meta">{n_ok} files included in total.</p>
{tree_html}
{extra}
</div>
</body>
</html>
"#
    )
}