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4 claims from 2 papers

1. Computer Science › Software Engineering Research

   A Direction-Aware Study of LLM-Based Code Translation Across Eight Programming Languages

   Chen, Tworek, Jun et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2021

   The paper introduces Codex, a GPT model fine-tuned on public GitHub code, tests its Python code writing on a new benchmark, and discusses limitations and the wider impacts of code generation tools.

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   1. UncheckedOn the HumanEval set, the authors' Codex model solved 28.8% of programming problems, against 0% for GPT-3 and 11.4% for GPT-J.“On HumanEval, a new evaluation set we release to measure functional correctness for synthesizing programs from docstrings, our model solves 28.8% of the problems, while GPT-3 solves 0% and GPT-J solves 11.4%.”
   2. UncheckedSampling 100 solutions per problem from the Codex model produced a working solution for 70.2% of the authors' HumanEval problems.“Using this method, we solve 70.2% of our problems with 100 samples per problem.”
   3. UncheckedThe authors report that their Codex code model struggles with docstrings describing long chains of operations and with binding operations to variables.“Careful investigation of our model reveals its limitations, including difficulty with docstrings describing long chains of operations and with binding operations to variables.”

2. Computer Science › Software Engineering Research

   No more fine-tuning? an experimental evaluation of prompt tuning in code intelligence

   Wang, Yang, Gao, Peng, Zhang and Lyu · ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) · 2022

   The paper empirically tests prompt tuning against fine-tuning on pre-trained code models across three code intelligence tasks, including in settings with little task-specific data.

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   1. UncheckedIn experiments on CodeBERT and CodeT5, prompt tuning beat standard fine-tuning in all three code tasks tested.“Our experimental results show that prompt tuning consistently outperforms fine-tuning in all three tasks.”