Unveiling code pre-trained models: Investigating syntax and semantics capacities

• Main Authors: MA, Wei, LIU, Shangqing, ZHAO, Mengjie, XIE, Xiaofei, WANG, Wenhang, HU, Qiang, ZHANG, Jie, YANG, Liu
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2024
• Subjects: Code Model Analysis; Syntax and Semantic Encoding; Programming Languages and Compilers; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/9092; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/10095/viewcontent/3664606.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Code models have made significant advancements in code intelligence by encoding knowledge about programming languages. While previous studies have explored the capabilities of these models in learning code syntax, there has been limited investigation on their ability to understand code semantics. Ad...