Programming can be complex, and it is sometimes possible to write code without errors. Code Large Language Models (Code-LLMs) have been developed to aid in code completion, but they can sometimes ignore errors in the context of the code. To address this issue, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Amazon Web Services conducted a study to improve the performance of MBAs in detecting potential errors during code generation.
Research in the field of automatic software repair, leveraging Code-LLMs, aims to reduce the burden of identifying and fixing programming errors. Similar to adversarial examples in other domains, small code transformations that preserve semantics can degrade the performance of code learning models. Existing standards such as CodeXGLUE, CodeNet, and HumanEval have been pivotal in the study of code completion and software repair. To enhance data availability, methods collect synthetic bugs through code mutations or learning how to generate bugs.
Code completion, an important feature in integrated development environments, has seen developments in compiler-based code models. However, these models often ignore the presence of errors, which is common in software development. The paper introduces the concept of buggy code completion (bCC), where potential errors exist in the context of the code, and explores the behavior of Code-LLMs in such scenarios. Benchmark datasets, buggy-HumanEval and buggy-FixEval, are introduced to evaluate Code-LLMs in the presence of synthetic and real-world errors, revealing significant performance degradation. Post-mitigation methods are being explored to address this issue.
Suggested mitigation methods include removal and completion, removing buggy parts; Completing and rewriting, and fixing errors after completion using models such as RealiT; Rewriting and then completing, and resolving errors by rewriting lines of code before completing. Performance, as measured by success rates, favors completion then rewriting and rewriting then completion. Code-LLM programs such as RealiT and INCODER-6B act as code stabilizers, filling out language models in these methods.
The presence of potential bugs significantly degrades the performance of generating Code-LLMs, with over 50% reduction in success rates for a single bug. By knowing the location of the bug, Heuristic Oracle shows a noticeable performance gap between buggy-HumanEval and buggy-FixEval, which confirms the importance of bug location. Probability-based methods show varying performances on the two datasets, suggesting that the nature of the errors influences the choice of clustering method. Post-mitigation methods, including remove-then-complete and write-then-complete, provide performance improvements. However, a gap remains, indicating the need for further research into enhancing code completion with potential bugs.
In summary, the research conducted can be presented in the following points:
- The research introduces a new task called bCC.
- bCC creates functional applications from code context with potential errors.
- The study was evaluated on two datasets called buggy-HumanEval and buggy-FixEval.
- The performance of Code-LLMs degrades dramatically, with test case success rates falling below 5%.
- Post-mitigation methods have been proposed, including remove-then-completion and write-then-complete, yet performance gaps persist.
- This work enhances the understanding of Code-LLMs in bCC.
- The research suggests ways to improve code completion in the event of potential bugs.
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