arxiv:2308.16824

Can Programming Languages Boost Each Other via Instruction Tuning?

Published on Aug 31, 2023

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Authors:

Daoguang Zan ,

Ailun Yu ,

Jiaxin Zhang ,

Bing Geng ,

Bei Chen ,

Yongji Wang ,

Qianxiang Wang

Abstract

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 fine-tuning phase of code large language models. We conduct extensive experiments of 8 popular programming languages (Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, C, C++, Java, Go, HTML) on StarCoder. Results demonstrate that programming languages can significantly improve each other. For example, CodeM-Python 15B trained on Python is able to increase Java by an absolute 17.95% pass@1 on HumanEval-X. More surprisingly, we found that CodeM-HTML 7B trained on the HTML corpus can improve Java by an absolute 15.24% pass@1. Our training data is released at https://github.com/NL2Code/CodeM.

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