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Record W4400647264 · doi:10.1109/tse.2024.3428324

Towards Efficient Fine-Tuning of Language Models With Organizational Data for Automated Software Review

2024· article· en· W4400647264 on OpenAlexaff
Mona Nashaat, James Miller

Bibliographic record

VenueIEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicSoftware Engineering Research
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer scienceSoftware engineeringSoftwareProgramming languageData science

Abstract

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Large language models like BERT and GPT possess significant capabilities and potential impacts across various applications. Software engineers often use these models for code-related tasks, including generating, debugging, and summarizing code. Nevertheless, large language models still have several flaws, including model hallucination. (e.g., generating erroneous code and producing outdated and inaccurate programs) and the substantial computational resources and energy required for training and fine-tuning. To tackle these challenges, we propose CodeMentor, a framework for few-shot learning to train large language models with the data available within the organization. We employ the framework to train a language model for code review activities, such as code refinement and review generation. The framework utilizes heuristic rules and weak supervision techniques to leverage available data, such as previous review comments, issue reports, and related code updates. Then, the framework employs the constructed dataset to fine-tune LLMs for code review tasks. Additionally, the framework integrates domain expertise by employing reinforcement learning with human feedback. This allows domain experts to assess the generated code and enhance the model performance. Also, to assess the performance of the proposed model, we evaluate it with four state-of-the-art techniques in various code review tasks. The experimental results attest that CodeMentor enhances the performance in all tasks compared to the state-of-the-art approaches, with an improvement of up to 22.3%, 43.4%, and 24.3% in code quality estimation, review generation, and bug report summarization tasks, respectively.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.006
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.033
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.009
Threshold uncertainty score0.031

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0060.033
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.001
Bibliometrics0.0030.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.004
Open science0.0040.003
Research integrity0.0020.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.025
GPT teacher head0.280
Teacher spread0.255 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2024
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