Knowledge Transfer from High-Resource to Low-Resource Programming Languages for Code LLMs — HN submission

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Knowledge Transfer from High-Resource to Low-Resource Languages for Code LLMs (2023)

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Knowledge Transfer from High-Resource to Low-Resource Programming Languages for Code LLMs — mentioned by groby_b

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 00:33:33 GMT

> the guys I get are pretty good and actually learn. The model doesn't. Core issue. LLMs never ever leave their base level unless you actively modify the prompt. I suppose you _could_ use finetuning to whip it into a useful shape, but that's a lot of work. (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.09895 is a good read) But the flip side of that core issue is that if the base level is high, they're good. Which means for Python & JS, they're pretty darn good. Making pandas garbage work? Just the task for an LLM. But yeah, R & nginx is not a major part of their original training data, and so they're stuck at…

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Knowledge Transfer from High-Resource to Low-Resource Programming Languages for Code LLMs — HN submission

Knowledge Transfer from High-Resource to Low-Resource Programming Languages for Code LLMs — mentioned by groby_b