Code Completion Model: Multi-Dimensional LLM Analysis

A comprehensive research project investigating the efficiency, scalability, and linguistic adaptability of Fine-Tuned Large Language Models (LLMs) for code generation tasks.

🎯 Project Overview

This project explores three fundamental dimensions of code generation using GPT-2 with LoRA fine-tuning:

1. Parameter Efficiency - Finding the optimal LoRA rank
2. Data Scalability - Understanding the relationship between training data volume and performance
3. Language Adaptability - Evaluating cross-language generalization capabilities

Key Findings

• ✅ Sweet Spot at Rank 16: Optimal balance between model capacity and functional correctness
• 📉 Complexity Trap: Increasing data initially degrades performance before improvement
• 🌐 Language Agnostic: GPT-2 learns verbose languages (Java) as effectively as concise ones (Python)

🚀 Quick Start

Prerequisites

# System requirements
- Python 3.8+
- CUDA-capable GPU (8GB+ VRAM recommended) or CPU
- 16GB RAM minimum
- 10GB free disk space

Installation

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/mvyas7/Code-Completion-ModeL.git
cd Code-Completion-ModeL

# Install dependencies
pip install torch transformers datasets peft evaluate sacrebleu tqdm pandas matplotlib

# Or use requirements.txt
pip install -r requirements.txt

Running Experiments

# Edit project.py to set experiment type
EXPERIMENT_TYPE = 'rank'  # Options: 'rank', 'scale', 'lang'

# Run the experiment
python project.py

Output Files:

• results_{EXPERIMENT_TYPE}.csv - Raw numerical results
• results_{EXPERIMENT_TYPE}.png - Visualization plots

📊 Experiments

Experiment A: Parameter Efficiency (LoRA Rank)

Research Question: Does increasing LoRA rank linearly improve performance?

Configuration:

EXPERIMENT_TYPE = 'rank'
ranks_to_test = [4, 16, 64]
sample_size = 200

Key Results:

Rank	BLEU	Syntax Pass Rate
4	9.42	25.0%
16	9.34	30.0% ✓
64	9.64	25.0%

Insight: Rank 16 achieves the best functional correctness, demonstrating diminishing returns beyond this point.

📖 Read detailed analysis →

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Experiment B: Data Scalability

Research Question: How does training data volume affect code quality?

Configuration:

EXPERIMENT_TYPE = 'scale'
samples_to_test = [50, 150, 300]
lora_rank = 16

Key Results:

Dataset Size	BLEU	Syntax Pass Rate
50	10.09	45.0% ✓
150	9.91	40.0%
300	12.64	40.0%

Insight: Small datasets produce simple but correct code. Larger datasets introduce complexity but require >1000 samples to master it.

📖 Read detailed analysis →

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Experiment C: Language Adaptability

Research Question: Does language verbosity affect fine-tuning performance?

Configuration:

EXPERIMENT_TYPE = 'lang'
languages_to_test = ['python', 'java', 'javascript']
sample_size = 200
lora_rank = 16

Key Results:

Language	BLEU	Syntax Pass Rate
Python	9.42	30.0%
Java	9.55	N/A*
JavaScript	TBD	TBD

*Java evaluation requires external compiler setup

Insight: GPT-2 learns textual patterns equally well across languages regardless of verbosity.

📖 Read detailed analysis →

📁 Project Structure

Code-Completion-ModeL/
│
├── project.py                 # Main experiment runner
├── README.md                  # This file
├── DATASET_README.md         # Dataset preprocessing documentation
├── RESULTS_README.md         # Detailed experimental results & insights
├── requirements.txt          # Python dependencies
│
├── results/                  # Experimental outputs
│   ├── results_rank.csv
│   ├── results_scale.csv
│   ├── results_lang.csv
│   ├── results_rank.png
│   ├── results_scale.png
│   └── results_lang.png
│
└── checkpoints/              # (Optional) Saved model checkpoints

🔧 Configuration

Key Parameters

# Model Configuration
MODEL_NAME = "gpt2"           # Base model
DEVICE = "cuda" / "cpu"       # Auto-detected

# Training Hyperparameters
EPOCHS = 3
LEARNING_RATE = 1e-4
MAX_LENGTH = 512
BATCH_SIZE = 32 (GPU) / 8 (CPU)

# LoRA Configuration
LORA_RANK = 16                # Adjustable in experiments
LORA_ALPHA = 32
LORA_DROPOUT = 0.1
TARGET_MODULES = ["c_attn", "c_proj"]

# Dataset Configuration
SAMPLE_SIZE = 200             # Training samples per experiment
EVAL_SIZE = 50                # Fixed evaluation size

Customization

To test different LoRA ranks:

# In project.py
ranks_to_test = [8, 16, 32, 128]  # Add/modify ranks

To test different dataset sizes:

samples_to_test = [100, 500, 1000, 2000]  # Larger scales

To add new languages:

languages_to_test = ['python', 'java', 'javascript', 'go', 'rust']

📈 Evaluation Metrics

BLEU Score

• Measures textual similarity between generated and reference code
• Range: 0-100 (higher is better)
• Limitation: Doesn't guarantee functional correctness

Syntax Pass Rate

• Percentage of generated code that compiles/parses successfully
• Python: Uses compile() function for validation
• Java/JS: Requires external compiler setup (currently limited)

Trade-off Analysis

Our experiments show BLEU and Syntax Pass Rate don't always correlate:

• High BLEU can indicate memorization without understanding
• High pass rate with lower BLEU suggests semantic correctness

🧪 Dataset Details

Source

• Primary: codeparrot/github-code (streaming)
• Fallback: codeparrot/codeparrot-clean-train

Preprocessing Pipeline

1. Streaming Acquisition - On-the-fly loading (no disk cache)
2. Text Formatting - Structured prompts (### Code:\n{code})
3. Tokenization - GPT-2 tokenizer with validation
4. Quality Filtering - Vocab bounds checking
5. Train/Eval Split - Configurable training size + fixed 50 eval samples

Memory Efficiency

• Traditional approach: 500-2000 MB disk usage
• Our approach: 5-50 MB (95-99% reduction)
• All processing happens in-memory with streaming

📖 Read full preprocessing details →

🎓 Research Insights

The "Sweet Spot" Phenomenon

Our experiments identified Rank 16 as the optimal LoRA configuration for GPT-2:

• Rank 4: Underfits (insufficient capacity)
• Rank 16: ✓ Best functional correctness
• Rank 64: Overfits to textual patterns

The "Complexity Trap"

Increasing training data doesn't linearly improve performance:

Simple Code → Ambitious but Broken → Correct Complex Code
(50 samples)     (300 samples)         (1000+ samples?)
   45% pass         40% pass              Unknown

Language Agnosticism

GPT-2's statistical learning is language-neutral:

• Verbose languages (Java) ≈ Concise languages (Python)
• BLEU scores are nearly identical (9.42 vs 9.55)
• Tokenization handles different syntax structures equally well

🚧 Limitations & Future Work

Current Limitations

1. Evaluation Infrastructure

   • Only Python syntax validation is automated
   • Java/JavaScript require external compilers
   • No execution-based testing (test pass rate)

2. Dataset Scale

   • Limited to 300 samples due to computational constraints
   • Unable to empirically verify scaling beyond Complexity Trap

3. Model Size

   • Experiments use GPT-2 (124M parameters)
   • Larger models (CodeGen, StarCoder) may show different patterns

Future Improvements

Short-term:

• Implement Docker-based multi-language evaluation
• Add CodeBLEU metric (syntax-aware)
• Expand to 1000+ samples per experiment

Long-term:

• Test larger models (350M, 1B parameters)
• Implement curriculum learning (simple → complex)
• Add execution-based metrics with test suites
• Explore cross-language transfer learning

📊 Recommended Configuration

Based on our multi-dimensional analysis, the optimal setup for deployment is:

# Optimal Configuration
MODEL = "gpt2"
LORA_RANK = 16              # Sweet spot for efficiency
TRAINING_SAMPLES = 1000+    # Beyond complexity trap
TARGET_LANGUAGE = "python"  # Best evaluation support
EPOCHS = 3
LEARNING_RATE = 1e-4

Expected Performance:

• BLEU: ~10-12
• Syntax Pass Rate: 40-50%
• Training Time: ~15 minutes (GPU) / ~2 hours (CPU)

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Areas for improvement:

• Multi-language evaluation infrastructure
• Additional programming languages
• Larger-scale experiments
• Alternative evaluation metrics

# Fork the repository
# Create a feature branch
git checkout -b feature/your-feature

# Make changes and commit
git commit -am "Add new feature"

# Push and create pull request
git push origin feature/your-feature

📝 Citation

If you use this research in your work, please cite:

@misc{vyas2025codecompletion,
  author = {Vyas, M.},
  title = {Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Code Generation Efficiency in Fine-Tuned LLMs},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {GitHub},
  url = {https://github.com/mvyas7/Code-Completion-ModeL}
}

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

🙏 Acknowledgments

• Datasets: CodeParrot team for curated code datasets
• Models: Hugging Face for pre-trained GPT-2
• Framework: Microsoft for LoRA (PEFT) implementation

📧 Contact

Author: Mayank Vyas
Email: mvyas7@asu.edu
GitHub: @mvyas7

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🔗 Quick Links

• Dataset Documentation
• Detailed Results & Analysis
• Issues & Bug Reports
• Project Wiki

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Last Updated: November 22, 2025*