Models specialized on only one programming language (piefed.social)

submitted 1 year ago by Oskar@piefed.social to c/fosai@lemmy.world

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There are lots of general-purpose models to use locally, and also coding-specific models.

But are there models specialized in one programming language? My thought was that a model that only needs to handle one language (e.g. Python) could be faster, or be better for a given size.

E.g If I need to code in Rust and is limited to an 8B model to run locally, I was hoping to get better results with a model that is narrower. I don't need it to be able to help with Java.

This approach would of course require switching models, but that's no problem for me.

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[-] Oskar@piefed.social 2 points 1 year ago

I finally found a Python-specific model. Searching is tricky when almost everything around local llms involve Python. https://huggingface.co/codellama/CodeLlama-13b-Python-hf

[-] Yomope@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I’m pretty sure this would not produce better output. Ai has a « thought » of his own.limiting is approach to be pure python won’t offer you the link it can see with a Java approach. With a more diverse knowledge, it can generate a more unique output. Not forcing it to be readable by human may give a more efficient solution. Kinda like compiled code.

[-] robsteranium@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

You can still leverage knowledge from a foundation model in a smaller fine-tuned one.

So the model might have learned general OOP principles from Java but it then drops redundant parameters about specific conventions like AbstractFactoryBuilders when it specialises on a language like Python which has no notion of Interfaces.

Likewise real world knowledge might help distinguish between accounting and database transactions when writing a banking application but you don't necessarily need your coding assistant to have memorised all the world cup winners since 1966.

These models are unwieldy so I think it makes a lot of sense to try and find ones that are tuned efficiently.