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Recent work demonstrates that, after instruction tuning, Code Large Language Models (Code LLMs) can obtain impressive capabilities to address a wide range of code-related tasks. However, current instruction tuning methods for Code LLMs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Zhaojian Yu , Xin Zhang , Ning Shang , Yangyu Huang , Can Xu , Yishujie Zhao , Wenxiang Hu , Qiufeng Yin

Recent advances in machine learning have significantly improved the understanding of source code data and achieved good performance on a number of downstream tasks. Open source repositories like GitHub enable this process with rich…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Ming Zhu , Aneesh Jain , Karthik Suresh , Roshan Ravindran , Sindhu Tipirneni , Chandan K. Reddy

The task of generating code from a natural language description, or NL2Code, is considered a pressing and significant challenge in code intelligence. Thanks to the rapid development of pre-training techniques, surging large language models…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Daoguang Zan , Bei Chen , Fengji Zhang , Dianjie Lu , Bingchao Wu , Bei Guan , Yongji Wang , Jian-Guang Lou

Statistical language modeling techniques have successfully been applied to large source code corpora, yielding a variety of new software development tools, such as tools for code suggestion, improving readability, and API migration. A major…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Rafael-Michael Karampatsis , Hlib Babii , Romain Robbes , Charles Sutton , Andrea Janes

Large language models (LLMs) have been widely deployed in coding tasks, drawing increasing attention to the evaluation of the quality and safety of LLMs' outputs. However, research on bias in code generation remains limited. Existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Yongkang Du , Jen-tse Huang , Jieyu Zhao , Lu Lin

Recently, pre-trained large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive abilities in generating codes from natural language descriptions, repairing buggy codes, translating codes between languages, and retrieving relevant code segments.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Mohammad Abdullah Matin Khan , M Saiful Bari , Xuan Long Do , Weishi Wang , Md Rizwan Parvez , Shafiq Joty

Large Language Models (LLMs) have garnered remarkable advancements across diverse code-related tasks, known as Code LLMs, particularly in code generation that generates source code with LLM from natural language descriptions. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Juyong Jiang , Fan Wang , Jiasi Shen , Sungju Kim , Sunghun Kim

As large language models (LLMs) play an increasingly important role in code generation, enhancing both correctness and efficiency has become crucial. Current methods primarily focus on correctness, often overlooking efficiency. To address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Dong Huang , Guangtao Zeng , Jianbo Dai , Meng Luo , Han Weng , Yuhao Qing , Heming Cui , Zhijiang Guo , Jie M. Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed software development by enabling code generation, automated debugging, and complex reasoning. However, their continued advancement is constrained by the scarcity of high-quality, publicly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Wasi Uddin Ahmad , Aleksander Ficek , Mehrzad Samadi , Jocelyn Huang , Vahid Noroozi , Somshubra Majumdar , Boris Ginsburg

Repository-level pretraining is commonly used to enable large language models for code to leverage codebase-wide context. This enhances their ability to generate accurate and context-aware code completions. In this work, we investigate how…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Maksim Sapronov , Evgeniy Glukhov

Code completion is a valuable topic in both academia and industry. Recently, large-scale mono-programming-lingual (MonoPL) pre-training models have been proposed to boost the performance of code completion. However, the code completion on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Zi Gong , Yinpeng Guo , Pingyi Zhou , Cuiyun Gao , Yasheng Wang , Zenglin Xu

Background: Leaking sensitive information - such as API keys, tokens, and credentials - in source code remains a persistent security threat. Traditional regex and entropy-based tools often generate high false positives due to limited…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Md Nafiu Rahman , Sadif Ahmed , Zahin Wahab , S M Sohan , Rifat Shahriyar

Large language models face intrinsic limitations in coding with APIs that are unseen in their training corpora. As libraries continuously evolve, it becomes impractical to exhaustively retrain LLMs with new API knowledge. This limitation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Yunkun Wang , Yue Zhang , Zhen Qin , Chen Zhi , Binhua Li , Fei Huang , Yongbin Li , Shuiguang Deng

Code translation is a crucial activity in the software development and maintenance process, and researchers have recently begun to focus on using pre-trained large language models (LLMs) for code translation. However, existing LLMs only…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Minghua He , Yue Chen , Fangkai Yang , Pu Zhao , Wenjie Yin , Yu Kang , Qingwei Lin , Saravan Rajmohan , Dongmei Zhang

Code large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable advances in code understanding, completion, and generation tasks. Programming benchmarks, comprised of a selection of code challenges and corresponding test cases, serve as a standard…

While large language models (LLMs) exhibit state-of-the-art performance in various tasks, recent studies have revealed their struggle for code translation. This is because they haven't been extensively pre-trained with parallel multilingual…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Qingxiao Tao , Tingrui Yu , Xiaodong Gu , Beijun Shen

When human programmers have mastered a programming language, it would be easier when they learn a new programming language. In this report, we focus on exploring whether programming languages can boost each other during the instruction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Daoguang Zan , Ailun Yu , Bo Shen , Jiaxin Zhang , Taihong Chen , Bing Geng , Bei Chen , Jichuan Ji , Yafen Yao , Yongji Wang , Qianxiang Wang

This paper presents the results of finetuning large language models (LLMs) for the task of detecting vulnerabilities in source code. We leverage WizardCoder, a recent improvement of the state-of-the-art LLM StarCoder, and adapt it for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Alexey Shestov , Rodion Levichev , Ravil Mussabayev , Evgeny Maslov , Anton Cheshkov , Pavel Zadorozhny

Large language models have shown good potential in supporting software development tasks. This is why more and more developers turn to LLMs (e.g. ChatGPT) to support them in fixing their buggy code. While this can save time and effort, many…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Yacine Majdoub , Eya Ben Charrada