Researchers at Microsoft have introduced a novel approach to generating diverse, high-quality instructional data from open source code, thereby improving the effectiveness of instruction tuning and the generalizability of tuned models. Thus, it addresses challenges in generating instructional data, such as duplicate data and insufficient control over data quality. The proposed method involves classifying instruction data into four universal code-related tasks and introduces a Language Model (LLM)-based Generator-Discriminator data processing framework called CodeOcean.
The researchers present CodeOcean, a dataset comprising 20,000 instruction instances in four code-related tasks: code summarization, code generation, code translation, and code repair. The goal is to increase the performance of Code LLM by tuning instructions. This research study also presents WaveCoder, a refined code LLM with generalized and versatile improved instruction tuning. WaveCoder is designed to improve instruction tuning for Code LLM and exhibits superior generalization ability across different code-related tasks compared to other open source models on the same tuning scale.
It builds on recent advances in large language models (LLM), emphasizing the important potential of instruction tuning to improve model capabilities for a variety of tasks. Instructional tuning has been shown to be effective in improving the generalization abilities of LLMs across various tasks, as seen in studies such as FLAN, ExT5, and FLANT5. The research introduces the concept of alignment, in which pre-trained models, having learned from self-supervised tasks, can understand text input. Instruction tuning provides instruction-level tasks, allowing pre-trained models to extract more information from instructions and improve their interactive abilities with users.
Existing methods for generating instructional data, including self-instruction and developmental instruction, depend on teachers' mastery performance and may produce duplicate data. The proposed LLM Generator-Discriminator framework leverages the source code and explicitly controls data quality during the generation process. The method generates more realistic instruction data by taking raw code as input and selecting a core data set while controlling data diversity through raw code distribution adjustments.
The study classifies instruction instances into four code-related tasks and refines the instruction data to create CodeOcean. The authors present WaveCoder models, refined with CodeOcean and demonstrate superior generalization capabilities compared to other open source models. WaveCoder exhibits high efficiency in code generation tasks and provides significant contributions to instruction data generation and fine-tuning models to improve performance in code-related tasks.
WaveCoder models consistently outperform other models on several benchmarks, including HumanEval, MBPP, and HumanEvalPack. The research emphasizes the importance of data quality and diversity in the instructional adjustment process. WaveCoder's performance is evaluated on code generation, repair, and summarization tasks, showing its effectiveness in various scenarios. A comparison with the CodeAlpaca dataset highlights the superiority of CodeOcean in refining instruction data and improving the instruction following ability of the base models.
In conclusion, the research presents a multitasking instructional data approach, CodeOcean and WaveCoder models to improve the generalization ability of Code LLM. The proposed LLM Generator-Discriminator framework is effective in generating diverse and realistic instruction data, which helps improve performance on various code-related tasks. Future work can explore the interaction between different tasks and larger data sets to further improve single-task performance and generalization capabilities.
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Pragati Jhunjhunwala is a Consulting Intern at MarktechPost. She is currently pursuing B.tech from the Indian Institute of technology (IIT), Kharagpur. She is a technology enthusiast and has a keen interest in the scope of data science software and applications. She is always reading about the advancements in different fields of ai and ML.
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