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Transformer-based language models are highly effective for code completion, with much research dedicated to enhancing the content of these completions. Despite their effectiveness, these models come with high operational costs and can be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Aral de Moor , Arie van Deursen , Maliheh Izadi

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

AI Code Completion (e.g., GitHub's Copilot) has revolutionized how computer science students interact with programming languages. However, AI code completion has been studied from the developers' perspectives, not the students' perspectives…

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

Code completion is a key feature of Integrated Development Environments (IDEs), aimed at predicting the next tokens a developer is likely to write, helping them write code faster and with less effort. Modern code completion approaches are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Matteo Ciniselli , Alberto Martin-Lopez , Gabriele Bavota

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

The practice of programming is undergoing a revolution with the introduction of AI assisted development (copilots) and the creation of new programming languages that are designed explicitly for tooling, analysis, and automation. Integrated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Mark Marron

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

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

Code completion can help developers improve efficiency and ease the development lifecycle. Although code completion is available in modern integrated development environments (IDEs), research lacks in determining what makes a good context…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Imranur Rahman , Md Rayhanur Rahman

Unlike code generation, which involves creating code from scratch, code completion focuses on integrating new lines or blocks of code into an existing codebase. This process requires a deep understanding of the surrounding context, such as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Hangzhan Jin , Mohammad Hamdaqa

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

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

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

Code completion is widely used by software developers to provide coding suggestions given a partially written code snippet. Apart from the traditional code completion methods, which only support single token completion at minimal positions,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Jingxuan Li , Rui Huang , Wei Li , Kai Yao , Weiguo Tan

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in code completion, as evidenced by their essential roles in developing code assistant services such as Copilot. Being trained on in-file contexts, current LLMs are quite…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Yichen Li , Yun Peng , Yintong Huo , Michael R. Lyu

While learning programming languages is crucial for software engineers, mastering the necessary tools is equally important. To facilitate this, JetBrains recently released the JetBrains Academy plugin, which customizes the IDE for learners,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Anastasiia Birillo , Ilya Vlasov , Katsiaryna Dzialets , Hieke Keuning , Timofey Bryksin

The adoption of AI-powered code completion tools in software development has increased substantially, yet the user interaction data produced by these systems remain proprietary within large corporations. This creates a barrier for the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Roham Koohestani , Parham Bateni , Aydin Ebrahimi , Behdad Etezadi , Kiarash Karimi , Maliheh Izadi

In the past decades, integrated development environments (IDEs) have been largely advanced to facilitate common software engineering tasks. Yet, with growing information needs driven by increasing complexity in developing modern…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Haipeng Cai

Token-level code completion is one of the most critical features in modern Integrated Development Environments (IDEs). It assists developers by suggesting relevant identifiers and APIs during coding. While completions are typically derived…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Daniele Cipollone , Egor Bogomolov , Arie van Deursen , Maliheh Izadi