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Automatic Code Documentation Generation Using GPT-3

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arxiv 2209.02235 v1 pith:X26H4W7G submitted 2022-09-06 cs.SE

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keywords documentationcodecodexautomaticdevelopmentgenerationgpt-3languages
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Source code documentation is an important artifact for efficient software development. Code documentation could greatly benefit from automation since manual documentation is often labouring, resource and time-intensive. In this paper, we employed Codex for automatic code documentation creation. Codex is a GPT-3 based model pre-trained on both natural and programming languages. We find that Codex outperforms existing techniques even with basic settings like one-shot learning (i.e., providing only one example for training). Codex achieves an overall BLEU score of 20.6 for six different programming languages (11.2% improvement over earlier state-of-the-art techniques). Thus, Codex shows promise and warrants in-depth future studies for automatic code documentation generation to support diverse development tasks.

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