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Code completion has become a common practice for programmers during their daily programming activities. It aims at automatically predicting the next tokens or lines that the programmers tend to use. A good code completion tool can…

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Code completion, which aims to predict the following code token(s) according to the code context, can improve the productivity of software development. Recent work has proved that statistical language modeling with transformers can greatly…

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Code execution is a fundamental aspect of programming language semantics that reflects the exact behavior of the code. However, most pre-trained models for code intelligence ignore the execution trace and only rely on source code and…

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Code Completion is one of the most used Integrated Development Environment (IDE) features, which affects the everyday life of a software developer. Modern code completion approaches moved from the composition of several static…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Anton Semenkin , Yaroslav Sokolov , Evgeniia Vu

Code completion is one of the most widely used features of modern integrated development environments (IDEs). While deep learning has made significant progress in the statistical prediction of source code, state-of-the-art neural network…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Alexey Svyatkovskiy , Sebastian Lee , Anna Hadjitofi , Maik Riechert , Juliana Franco , Miltiadis Allamanis

Code completion is an essential feature of IDEs, yet current autocompleters are restricted to either grammar-based or NLP-based single token completions. Both approaches have significant drawbacks: grammar-based autocompletion is restricted…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Maliheh Izadi , Roberta Gismondi , Georgios Gousios

Code completion aims to help improve developers' productivity by suggesting the next code tokens from a given context. Various approaches have been proposed to incorporate abstract syntax tree (AST) information for model training, ensuring…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Wannita Takerngsaksiri , Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn , Yuan-Fang Li

Recent studies have adopted pre-trained language models, such as CodeT5 and CodeGPT, for automated program generation tasks like code generation, repair, and translation. Numerous language model-based approaches have been proposed and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Yue Liu , Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn , Yonghui Liu , Li Li

In the rapidly evolving industry of software development, coding efficiency and accuracy play significant roles in delivering high-quality software. Various code suggestion and completion tools, such as CodeBERT from Microsoft and GPT-3.5…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Bingbing Zhang , Ziyu Lin , Yingxin Su

Large language models (LLMs) has experienced exponential growth, they demonstrate remarkable performance across various tasks. Notwithstanding, contemporary research primarily centers on enhancing the size and quality of pretraining data,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Mengnan Qi , Yufan Huang , Yongqiang Yao , Maoquan Wang , Bin Gu , Neel Sundaresan

In software development through integrated development environments (IDEs), code completion is one of the most widely used features. Nevertheless, majority of integrated development environments only support completion of methods and APIs,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Alexey Svyatkovskiy , Shao Kun Deng , Shengyu Fu , Neel Sundaresan

The Transformer architecture and transfer learning have marked a quantum leap in natural language processing, improving the state of the art across a range of text-based tasks. This paper examines how these advancements can be applied to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Pasquale Salza , Christoph Schwizer , Jian Gu , Harald C. Gall

In recent years, the use of deep learning in language models gained much attention. Some research projects claim that they can generate text that can be interpreted as human-writing, enabling new possibilities in many application areas.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Juan Cruz-Benito , Sanjay Vishwakarma , Francisco Martin-Fernandez , Ismael Faro

Code completion has become a central task, gaining significant attention with the rise of large language model (LLM)-based tools in software engineering. Although recent advances have greatly improved LLMs' code completion abilities,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Jiajun Zhang , Zeyu Cui , Lei Zhang , Jian Yang , Jiaxi Yang , Qiang Liu , Zilei Wang , Binyuan Hui , Liang Wang , Junyang Lin

Software language models have achieved promising results predicting code completion usages, and several industry studies have described successful IDE integrations. Recently, accuracy in autocompletion prediction improved 12.8% from…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Wen Zhou , Seohyun Kim , Vijayaraghavan Murali , Gareth Ari Aye

We address the problem of predicting edit completions based on a learned model that was trained on past edits. Given a code snippet that is partially edited, our goal is to predict a completion of the edit for the rest of the snippet. We…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Shaked Brody , Uri Alon , Eran Yahav

Deep learning (DL)-based code completion tools have transformed software development by enabling advanced code generation. These tools leverage models trained on vast amounts of code from numerous repositories, capturing general coding…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Alessandro Giagnorio , Alberto Martin-Lopez , Gabriele Bavota

As Moore's Law continues to increase the complexity of electronic systems, Electronic Design Automation (EDA) must advance to meet global demand. An important example of an EDA technology is SKILL, a scripting language used to customize and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Enrique Dehaerne , Bappaditya Dey , Wannes Meert

Writing tests is a time-consuming yet essential task during software development. We propose to leverage recent advances in deep learning for text and code generation to assist developers in writing tests. We formalize the novel task of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Pengyu Nie , Rahul Banerjee , Junyi Jessy Li , Raymond J. Mooney , Milos Gligoric

Existing large language model-based code generation pipelines typically use beam search or sampling algorithms during the decoding process. Although the programs they generate achieve high token-matching-based scores, they often fail to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Shun Zhang , Zhenfang Chen , Yikang Shen , Mingyu Ding , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Chuang Gan