Eliciting Instruction-tuned Code Language Models’ Capabilities to Utilize Auxiliary Function for Code Generation
Seonghyeon Lee, Suyeon Kim, Joonwon Jang, HeeJae Chon, Dongha Lee, Hwanjo Yu
Abstract
We study the code generation behavior of instruction-tuned models built on top of code pre-trained language models when they could access an auxiliary function to implement a function. We design several ways to provide auxiliary functions to the models by adding them to the query or providing a response prefix to incorporate the ability to utilize auxiliary functions with the instruction-following capability. Our experimental results show the effectiveness of combining the base models’ auxiliary function utilization ability with the instruction following ability. In particular, the performance of adopting our approaches with the open-sourced language models surpasses that of the recent powerful language models, i.e., gpt-4o.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{lee-etal-2024-eliciting,
title = "Eliciting Instruction-tuned Code Language Models' Capabilities to Utilize Auxiliary Function for Code Generation",
author = "Lee, Seonghyeon and
Kim, Suyeon and
Jang, Joonwon and
Chon, HeeJae and
Lee, Dongha and
Yu, Hwanjo",
editor = "Al-Onaizan, Yaser and
Bansal, Mohit and
Chen, Yun-Nung",
booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024",
month = nov,
year = "2024",
address = "Miami, Florida, USA",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-emnlp.100/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.findings-emnlp.100",
pages = "1840--1846"
}