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Machine learning models that take computer program source code as input typically use Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques. However, a major challenge is that code is written using an open, rapidly changing vocabulary due to, e.g.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Milan Cvitkovic , Badal Singh , Anima Anandkumar

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 source code suggestions provided by current IDEs are mostly dependent on static type learning. These suggestions often end up proposing irrelevant suggestions for a peculiar context. Recently, deep learning-based approaches have shown…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Yasir Hussain , Zhiqiu Huang , Yu Zhou , Senzhang Wang

Code completion is a prominent application of Large Language Models (LLMs) in software engineering. Due to the near real-time response requirements of this task, base models with small to medium-sized parameters are typically employed,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Dongjun Yu , Xiao Yan , Zhenrui Li , Jipeng Xiao , Haochuan He , Yongda Yu , Hao Zhang , Guoping Rong , Xiaobo Huang

Recently, many pre-trained language models for source code have been proposed to model the context of code and serve as a basis for downstream code intelligence tasks such as code completion, code search, and code summarization. These…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Yao Wan , Wei Zhao , Hongyu Zhang , Yulei Sui , Guandong Xu , Hai Jin

Code completion is one of the main features of modern Integrated Development Environments (IDEs). Its objective is to speed up code writing by predicting the next code token(s) the developer is likely to write. Research in this area has…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Matteo Ciniselli , Nathan Cooper , Luca Pascarella , Denys Poshyvanyk , Massimiliano Di Penta , Gabriele Bavota

Program synthesis or code generation aims to generate a program that satisfies a problem specification. Recent approaches using large-scale pretrained language models (LMs) have shown promising results, yet they have some critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Hung Le , Yue Wang , Akhilesh Deepak Gotmare , Silvio Savarese , Steven C. H. Hoi

Recent studies have demonstrated remarkable advancements in source code learning, which applies deep neural networks (DNNs) to tackle various software engineering tasks. Similar to other DNN-based domains, source code learning also requires…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Zeming Dong , Qiang Hu , Yuejun Guo , Zhenya Zhang , Maxime Cordy , Mike Papadakis , Yves Le Traon , Jianjun Zhao

Code language models excel on code intelligence tasks, yet their internal interpretability is underexplored. Existing neuron interpretability techniques from NLP are suboptimal for source code due to programming languages formal,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Zhe Yin , Xiaodong Gu , Beijun Shen

Natural language (NL) programming has become more approachable due to the powerful code-generation capability of large language models (LLMs). This shift to using NL to program enhances collaborative programming by reducing communication…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Li Feng , Ryan Yen , Yuzhe You , Mingming Fan , Jian Zhao , Zhicong Lu

Code Large Language Models (Code LLMs) have excelled at tasks like code completion but often miss deeper semantics such as execution effects and dynamic states. This paper aims to bridge the gap between Code LLMs' reliance on static text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Yangruibo Ding , Jinjun Peng , Marcus J. Min , Gail Kaiser , Junfeng Yang , Baishakhi Ray

Large language models make remarkable progress in reasoning capabilities. Existing works focus mainly on deductive reasoning tasks (e.g., code and math), while another type of reasoning mode that better aligns with human learning, inductive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Kedi Chen , Zhikai Lei , Fan Zhang , Yinqi Zhang , Qin Chen , Jie Zhou , Liang He , Qipeng Guo , Kai Chen , Wei Zhang

It has been found that software, like natural language texts, exhibits "naturalness", which can be captured by statistical language models. In recent years, neural language models have been proposed to represent the naturalness of software…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Thomas Dowdell , Hongyu Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate functional source code from natural-language prompts, but often fail to consistently follow higher-level architectural structures or design patterns. Since LLMs are increasingly used in software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Viktor Kjellberg , Farnaz Fotrousi , Miroslaw Staron

We address the problem of any-code completion - generating a missing piece of source code in a given program without any restriction on the vocabulary or structure. We introduce a new approach to any-code completion that leverages the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Uri Alon , Roy Sadaka , Omer Levy , Eran Yahav

Large language models (LLMs) pretrained on vast source code have achieved prominent progress in code intelligence. However, existing code LLMs have two main limitations in terms of architecture and pretraining tasks. First, they often adopt…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Yue Wang , Hung Le , Akhilesh Deepak Gotmare , Nghi D. Q. Bui , Junnan Li , Steven C. H. Hoi

The ability to generate natural language sequences from source code snippets has a variety of applications such as code summarization, documentation, and retrieval. Sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) models, adopted from neural machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Uri Alon , Shaked Brody , Omer Levy , Eran Yahav

With large language models (LLMs) achieving remarkable breakthroughs in natural language processing (NLP) domains, LLM-enhanced recommender systems have received much attention and have been actively explored currently. In this paper, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Jianghao Lin , Rong Shan , Chenxu Zhu , Kounianhua Du , Bo Chen , Shigang Quan , Ruiming Tang , Yong Yu , Weinan Zhang

Code data has been shown to enhance the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs), but it remains unclear which aspects of code are most responsible. We investigate this question with a systematic, data-centric framework. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Abdul Waheed , Zhen Wu , Carolyn Rosé , Daphne Ippolito

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