@inproceedings{feng2020codebert,
author = {Feng, Zhangyin and Guo, Daya and Tang, Duyu and Duan, Nan and Feng, Xiaocheng and Gong (YIMING), Ming and Shou (寿林钧), Linjun and Qin, Bing and Liu, Ting and Jiang (姜大昕), Daxin and Zhou, Ming},
title = {CodeBERT: A Pre-Trained Model for Programming and Natural Languages},
booktitle = {Findings of EMNLP 2020},
year = {2020},
month = {September},
abstract = {We present CodeBERT, a bimodal pre-trained model for programming language (PL) and nat-ural language (NL). CodeBERT learns general-purpose representations that support downstream NL-PL applications such as natural language codesearch, code documentation generation, etc. We develop CodeBERT with Transformer-based neural architecture, and train it with a hybrid objective function that incorporates the pre-training task of replaced token detection, which is to detect plausible alternatives sampled from generators. This enables us to utilize both bimodal data of NL-PL pairs and unimodal data, where the former provides input tokens for model training while the latter helps to learn better generators. We evaluate CodeBERT on two NL-PL applications by fine-tuning model parameters. Results show that CodeBERT achieves state-of-the-art performance on both natural language code search and code documentation generation tasks. Furthermore, to investigate what type of knowledge is learned in CodeBERT, we construct a dataset for NL-PL probing, and evaluate in a zero-shot setting where parameters of pre-trained models are fixed. Results show that CodeBERT performs better than previous pre-trained models on NL-PL probing.},
url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/codebert-a-pre-trained-model-for-programming-and-natural-languages/},
}