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Code completion aims at speeding up code writing by recommending to developers the next tokens they are likely to type. Deep Learning (DL) models pushed the boundaries of code completion by redefining what these coding assistants can do: We…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Matteo Ciniselli , Luca Pascarella , Gabriele Bavota

Transformer-based pre-trained models have recently achieved great results in solving many software engineering tasks including automatic code completion which is a staple in a developer's toolkit. While many have striven to improve the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Tim van Dam , Maliheh Izadi , Arie van Deursen

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…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Shuai Lu , Nan Duan , Hojae Han , Daya Guo , Seung-won Hwang , Alexey Svyatkovskiy

A code completion system suggests future code elements to developers given a partially-complete code snippet. Code completion is one of the most useful features in Integrated Development Environments (IDEs). Currently, most code completion…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Wenhan Wang , Sijie Shen , Ge Li , Zhi Jin

Code completion is an important feature of integrated development environments (IDEs). It allows developers to produce code faster, especially novice ones who are not fully familiar with APIs and others code. Previous works on code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-11-03 M. Weyssow , H. Sahraoui , B. Frénay , B. Vanderose

Code completion is a popular software development tool integrated into all major IDEs. Many neural language models have achieved promising results in completion suggestion prediction on synthetic benchmarks. However, a recent study When…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Gareth Ari Aye , Seohyun Kim , Hongyu Li

As code generation becomes increasingly central to improving software development efficiency, modern code models are largely trained and evaluated on code with natural-language descriptions. In real projects, developers often implement…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Chen Liu , Qingyuan Liang , Hanwen Zhang , Zeyu Sun , Yakun Zhang , Lu Zhang

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

Context plays an important role in the quality of code completion, as Large Language Models (LLMs) require sufficient and relevant information to assist developers in code generation tasks. However, composing a relevant context for code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Uswat Yusuf , Genevieve Caumartin , Diego Elias Costa

Code intelligence is an emerging domain in software engineering, aiming to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of various code-related tasks. Recent research suggests that incorporating contextual information beyond the basic original…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yanlin Wang , Kefeng Duan , Dewu Zheng , Ensheng Shi , Fengji Zhang , Yanli Wang , Jiachi Chen , Xilin Liu , Yuchi Ma , Hongyu Zhang , Qianxiang Wang , Zibin Zheng

Fill-in-the-Middle (FIM) models play a vital role in code completion tasks, leveraging both prefix and suffix context to provide more accurate and contextually relevant suggestions. This paper presents approaches to improve FIM code…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Hitesh Sagtani , Rishabh Mehrotra , Beyang Liu

Auxiliary function is a helpful component to improve language model's code generation ability. However, a systematic exploration of how they affect has yet to be done. In this work, we comprehensively evaluate the ability to utilize…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Seonghyeon Lee , Sanghwan Jang , Seongbo Jang , Dongha Lee , Hwanjo Yu

Code completion is one of the most useful features in the Integrated Development Environments (IDEs), which can accelerate software development by suggesting the next probable token based on the contextual code in real-time. Recent studies…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Fang Liu , Ge Li , Yunfei Zhao , Zhi Jin

The growing capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) have led to their widespread adoption for function completion within code repositories. Recent studies on such tasks show promising results when explicit instructions, often in the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Yanzhou Li , Tianlin Li , Yiran Zhang , Shangqing Liu , Aishan Liu , Xianglong Liu , Yang Liu

The rapid advancement of workflows and methods for software engineering using AI emphasizes the need for a systematic evaluation and analysis of their ability to leverage information from entire projects, particularly in large code bases.…

A growing number of researchers suggest that software process must be tailored to a project's context to achieve maximal performance. Researchers have studied 'context' in an ad-hoc way, with focus on those contextual factors that appear to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Diana Kirk , Stephen G. MacDonell

Deep learning models have been successfully applied to a variety of software engineering tasks, such as code classification, summarisation, and bug and vulnerability detection. In order to apply deep learning to these tasks, source code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Fuwei Tian , Christoph Treude

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in code completion tasks, where they assist developers by predicting and generating new code in real-time. However, existing LLM-based code completion systems primarily…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Zhanming Guan , Junlin Liu , Jierui Liu , Chao Peng , Dexin Liu , Ningyuan Sun , Bo Jiang , Wenchao Li , Jie Liu , Hang Zhu

In today's software world with its cornucopia of reusable software libraries, when a programmer is faced with a programming task that they suspect can be completed through the use of a library, they often look for code examples using a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Geert Heyman , Rafael Huysegems , Pascal Justen , Tom Van Cutsem

Transformer-based language models for automatic code completion have shown great promise so far, yet the evaluation of these models rarely uses real data. This study provides both quantitative and qualitative assessments of three public…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Maliheh Izadi , Jonathan Katzy , Tim van Dam , Marc Otten , Razvan Mihai Popescu , Arie van Deursen
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