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We introduce self-invoking code generation, a new task designed to evaluate the progressive reasoning and problem-solving capabilities of LLMs. In this task, models are presented with a base problem and a related, more complex problem. They…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Zhaojian Yu , Yilun Zhao , Arman Cohan , Xiao-Ping Zhang

Large language models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated a remarkable ability to generate code from natural language (NL) prompts. However, in the real world, NL is often too ambiguous to capture the true intent behind programming problems,…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) are gaining momentum in software development with prompt-driven programming enabling developers to create code from natural language (NL) instructions. However, studies have questioned their ability to produce…

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Code generation is to automatically generate source code conforming to a given programming specification, which has received extensive attention especially with the development of large language models (LLMs). Due to the inherent difficulty…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Zhao Tian , Junjie Chen , Xiangyu Zhang

Open-domain code generation is a challenging problem because the set of functions and classes that we use are frequently changed and extended in programming communities. We consider the challenge of code generation for unknown libraries…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown great success in code generation. LLMs take as the input a prompt and output the code. A key question is how to make prompts (i.e., Prompting Techniques). Existing prompting techniques are designed…

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Containerization allows developers to define the execution environment in which their software needs to be installed. Docker is the leading platform in this field, and developers that use it are required to write a Dockerfile for their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Giovanni Rosa , Antonio Mastropaolo , Simone Scalabrino , Gabriele Bavota , Rocco Oliveto

Large Language Models are transforming software development by automatically generating code. Current prompting techniques such as Chain-of-Thought (CoT) suggest tasks step by step and the reasoning process follows a linear structure, which…

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PromptSource is a system for creating, sharing, and using natural language prompts. Prompts are functions that map an example from a dataset to a natural language input and target output. Using prompts to train and query language models is…

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Code generation aims to synthesize code and fulfill functional requirements based on natural language (NL) specifications, which can greatly improve development efficiency. In the era of large language models (LLMs), large code models…

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As coding challenges become more complex, recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have led to notable successes, such as achieving a 94.6\% solve rate on the HumanEval benchmark. Concurrently, there is an increasing commercial…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Douglas Schonholtz

Large Language Models (LLMs) (e.g., ChatGPT) have shown impressive performance in code generation. LLMs take prompts as inputs, and Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting is the state-of-the-art prompting technique. CoT prompting asks LLMs first…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Jia Li , Ge Li , Yongmin Li , Zhi Jin

With the success of large language models (LLMs) of code and their use as code assistants (e.g. Codex used in GitHub Copilot), techniques for introducing domain-specific knowledge in the prompt design process become important. In this work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Disha Shrivastava , Hugo Larochelle , Daniel Tarlow

One of the central tasks in software maintenance is being able to understand and develop code changes. Thus, given a natural language description of the desired new operation of a function, an agent (human or AI) might be asked to generate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Kunal Pai , Premkumar Devanbu , Toufique Ahmed

Code generation, the automatic creation of source code from natural language descriptions, has garnered significant attention due to its potential to streamline software development. Inspired by research that links task-personality…

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