Given a natural language that describes the user's demands, the NL2Code task aims to generate code that addresses the demands. This is a critical but challenging task that mirrors the capabilities of AI-powered programming. The NL2Code task is inherently versatile, diverse and complex. For example, a demand can be described in different languages, in different formats, and at different levels of granularity. This inspired us to do this survey for NL2Code. In this survey, we focus on how does neural network (NN) solves NL2Code. We first propose a comprehensive framework, which is able to cover all studies in this field. Then, we in-depth parse the existing studies into this framework. We create an online website to record the parsing results, which tracks existing and recent NL2Code progress. In addition, we summarize the current challenges of NL2Code as well as its future directions. We hope that this survey can foster the evolution of this field.

Natural language processing for programming, which aims to use NLP techniques to assist programming, has experienced an explosion in recent years. However, there is no literature that systematically reviews related work from the full spectrum. In this paper, we comprehensively investigate existing work, ranging from early deductive models to the latest competition-level models. Another advantage of this paper is the completeness of the technique category, which provides easy access to locating and comparing future works.

As the complexity of modern software continues to escalate, software engineering has become an increasingly daunting and error-prone endeavor. In recent years, the field of Neural Code Intelligence (NCI) has emerged as a promising solution, leveraging the power of deep learning techniques to tackle analytical tasks on source code with the goal of improving programming efficiency and minimizing human errors within the software industry. Pretrained language models have become a dominant force in NCI research, consistently delivering state-of-the-art results across a wide range of tasks, including code summarization, generation, and translation. In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey of the NCI domain, including a thorough review of pretraining techniques, tasks, datasets, and model architectures. We hope this paper will serve as a bridge between the natural language and programming language communities, offering insights for future research in this rapidly evolving field.

Software engineers working with the same programming language (PL) may speak different natural languages (NLs) and vice versa, erecting huge barriers to communication and working efficiency. Recent studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of generative pre-training in computer programs, yet they are always English-centric. In this work, we step towards bridging the gap between multilingual NLs and multilingual PLs for large language models (LLMs). We release ERNIE-Code, a unified pre-trained language model for 116 NLs and 6 PLs. We employ two methods for universal cross-lingual pre-training: span-corruption language modeling that learns patterns from monolingual NL or PL; and pivot-based translation language modeling that relies on parallel data of many NLs and PLs. Extensive results show that ERNIE-Code outperforms previous multilingual LLMs for PL or NL across a wide range of end tasks of code intelligence, including multilingual code-to-text, text-to-code, code-to-code, and text-to-text generation. We further show its advantage of zero-shot prompting on multilingual code summarization and text-to-text translation. We will make our code and pre-trained models publicly available.

Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) is the task of automatically detecting and correcting errors in text. The task not only includes the correction of grammatical errors, such as missing prepositions and mismatched subject-verb agreement, but also orthographic and semantic errors, such as misspellings and word choice errors respectively. The field has seen significant progress in the last decade, motivated in part by a series of five shared tasks, which drove the development of rule-based methods, statistical classifiers, statistical machine translation, and finally neural machine translation systems which represent the current dominant state of the art. In this survey paper, we condense the field into a single article and first outline some of the linguistic challenges of the task, introduce the most popular datasets that are available to researchers (for both English and other languages), and summarise the various methods and techniques that have been developed with a particular focus on artificial error generation. We next describe the many different approaches to evaluation as well as concerns surrounding metric reliability, especially in relation to subjective human judgements, before concluding with an overview of recent progress and suggestions for future work and remaining challenges. We hope that this survey will serve as comprehensive resource for researchers who are new to the field or who want to be kept apprised of recent developments.

大型语言模型，例如OpenAI的法典和DeepMind的字母，可以生成代码来解决以自然语言表达的各种问题。这项技术已经在至少一项广泛使用的编程编辑器扩展程序中进行了商业化：Github Copilot。在本文中，我们探讨了具有大型语言模型（LLM辅助编程）的编程与程序员协助的先前概念化相似，并且与众不同。我们借鉴了公开可用的经验报告，有关LLM辅助编程以及先前的可用性和设计研究。我们发现，尽管LLM辅助编程通过搜索和重用分享了一些编译，配对编程和编程的属性，但技术可能性和实践经验都存在根本差异。因此，应该将LLM辅助编程视为具有自己独特的属性和挑战的新方法。最后，我们借鉴了用户研究的观察结果，在该观察中，非专家最终用户程序员使用LLM辅助工具来求解电子表格中的数据任务。我们讨论可能出现的问题，并在将大型语言模型应用于最终用户编程时，尤其是对于几乎没有编程专业知识的用户。

Mathematical reasoning is a fundamental aspect of human intelligence and is applicable in various fields, including science, engineering, finance, and everyday life. The development of artificial intelligence (AI) systems capable of solving math problems and proving theorems has garnered significant interest in the fields of machine learning and natural language processing. For example, mathematics serves as a testbed for aspects of reasoning that are challenging for powerful deep learning models, driving new algorithmic and modeling advances. On the other hand, recent advances in large-scale neural language models have opened up new benchmarks and opportunities to use deep learning for mathematical reasoning. In this survey paper, we review the key tasks, datasets, and methods at the intersection of mathematical reasoning and deep learning over the past decade. We also evaluate existing benchmarks and methods, and discuss future research directions in this domain.

Controllable Text Generation (CTG) is emerging area in the field of natural language generation (NLG). It is regarded as crucial for the development of advanced text generation technologies that are more natural and better meet the specific constraints in practical applications. In recent years, methods using large-scale pre-trained language models (PLMs), in particular the widely used transformer-based PLMs, have become a new paradigm of NLG, allowing generation of more diverse and fluent text. However, due to the lower level of interpretability of deep neural networks, the controllability of these methods need to be guaranteed. To this end, controllable text generation using transformer-based PLMs has become a rapidly growing yet challenging new research hotspot. A diverse range of approaches have emerged in the recent 3-4 years, targeting different CTG tasks which may require different types of controlled constraints. In this paper, we present a systematic critical review on the common tasks, main approaches and evaluation methods in this area. Finally, we discuss the challenges that the field is facing, and put forward various promising future directions. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first survey paper to summarize CTG techniques from the perspective of PLMs. We hope it can help researchers in related fields to quickly track the academic frontier, providing them with a landscape of the area and a roadmap for future research.

代码生成是一个长期的挑战，旨在根据自然语言描述生成代码段。通常，昂贵的文本编码配对数据对于培训代码生成模型至关重要。最近，由于培训预培训技术的成功，大型语言模型接受了大规模未标记的代码语料库的培训，并在代码生成方面表现良好。在本文中，我们调查了如何利用未标记的代码语料库来训练以图书馆为导向的代码生成的模型。由于对于程序员重复使用第三方库是一种普遍的做法，因此由于库数量大量，文本编码配对数据很难获得。我们观察到面向图书馆的代码片段更有可能共享类似的代码草图。因此，我们为证书提供了两个步骤：草图器生成草图，然后发电机填充了草图中的详细信息。 Sketcher和Generator都使用未标记的数据在基本模型上不断预先训练。此外，我们制作了两个名为Pandaseval和NumpyeVal的基准，以评估面向图书馆的代码生成。实验结果证明了CERT的表现令人印象深刻。例如，它超过了基本模型，在pandaseval上的Pass@1方面，绝对提高了15.67％。我们的工作可在https://github.com/microsoft/pycodegpt上获得。

我们提出了Pangu-Coder，这是一种仅预读的解码器语言模型，该模型采用pangu-alpha架构进行文本到代码生成，即给定自然语言问题描述的编程语言解决方案的合成。我们使用两阶段策略训练Pangu-Coder：第一阶段采用因果语言建模（CLM）来预先培训原始编程语言数据，而第二阶段则使用因果语言建模和掩盖语言建模（MLM）的组合培训目标，专注于文本到代码生成的下游任务，并培训松散的自然语言程序定义和代码功能。最后，我们讨论了pangu-coder-ft，该pander the是通过竞争性编程问题和代码与持续集成测试的结合进行了微调的。我们评估了pangu-coder，重点是它是否生成功能上正确的程序，并证明它在参加较小的上下文窗口和较少的数据培训的同时，它比诸如Codex之类的类似大小的模型（例如Codex）实现等效性或更好的性能。

源代码存储库由大型代码库组成，通常包含容易发生的程序。软件的复杂性日益增加导致时间和识别这些缺陷的时间和成本急剧上升。存在各种方法可以自动生成错误代码的修复程序。但是，由于特定错误的可能解决方案的组合空间很大，因此没有很多工具和数据集可以有效地评估生成的代码。在这项工作中，我们介绍了FixeVal，这是一个基准，其中包括竞争性编程问题及其各自修复程序的基准。我们引入了丰富的测试套件，以评估和评估模型生成程序修复的正确性。我们将两种在编程语言上鉴定的变压器语言模型视为我们的基准，并使用基于匹配和基于执行的评估指标对其进行比较。我们的实验表明，基于匹配的指标不能准确反映模型生成的程序修复，而基于执行的方法通过专门为该解决方案设计的所有情况和场景评估程序。因此，我们认为FixeVal提供了朝着实际自动错误修复和模型生成的代码评估的步骤。

GPT-3显示了培训的大规模语言模型（LMS）的卓越情调学习能力，培训数十亿规模数据。在这里，我们解决了GPT-3纸张报告的一些剩余问题，例如非英语LM，不同大小模型的性能，以及最近引入的迅速优化对上下文学习的效果。为实现这一目标，我们介绍了HyperClova，一个韩国VPT-3的韩国变体训练在一个以韩国为中心的560b标准的令牌。通过我们的韩国特定标记化，HyperClova与我们的培训配置增强，显示了韩国各种下游任务的最先进的上下游零射击和几秒钟学习表演。此外，我们展示了基于及时的学习的性能优势，并演示如何集成到迅速的工程管道中。然后，我们讨论了通过引入Hyperclova Studio，互动提示工程界面向ML的非专家提供AI原型设计能力来实现No Code AI范例的可能性。最后，我们展示了我们具有三个成功的内部应用程序的方法的潜力。

Natural Language Generation (NLG) has improved exponentially in recent years thanks to the development of sequence-to-sequence deep learning technologies such as Transformer-based language models. This advancement has led to more fluent and coherent NLG, leading to improved development in downstream tasks such as abstractive summarization, dialogue generation and data-to-text generation. However, it is also apparent that deep learning based generation is prone to hallucinate unintended text, which degrades the system performance and fails to meet user expectations in many real-world scenarios. To address this issue, many studies have been presented in measuring and mitigating hallucinated texts, but these have never been reviewed in a comprehensive manner before. In this survey, we thus provide a broad overview of the research progress and challenges in the hallucination problem in NLG. The survey is organized into two parts: (1) a general overview of metrics, mitigation methods, and future directions; and (2) an overview of task-specific research progress on hallucinations in the following downstream tasks, namely abstractive summarization, dialogue generation, generative question answering, data-to-text generation, machine translation, and visual-language generation. This survey serves to facilitate collaborative efforts among researchers in tackling the challenge of hallucinated texts in NLG.

上下文：堆栈溢出对于寻求编程问题答案的软件开发人员非常有帮助。先前的研究表明，越来越多的问题质量低，因此从潜在的答案者那里获得了更少的关注。 Gao等。提出了一个基于LSTM的模型（即BilstM-CC），以自动从代码片段中生成问题标题，以提高问题质量。但是，只有在问题主体中使用代码段无法为标题生成提供足够的信息，而LSTMS无法捕获令牌之间的远程依赖性。目的：本文提出了基于深度学习的新型模型CCBERT，旨在通过充分利用整个问题主体的双模式信息来增强问题标题生成的性能。方法：CCBERT遵循编码器范式范式，并使用Codebert将问题主体编码为隐藏的表示形式，堆叠的变压器解码器以生成预测的代币，以及附加的复制注意层来完善输出分布。编码器和解码器都执行多头自我注意操作，以更好地捕获远程依赖性。本文构建了一个数据集，该数据集包含大约200,000个高质量问题，该数据从Stack Overflow正式发布的数据中滤除，以验证CCBERT模型的有效性。结果：CCBERT优于数据集上的所有基线模型。对仅代码和低资源数据集进行的实验表明，CCBERT的优势性能较小。人类评估还显示了CCBERT关于可读性和相关标准的出色表现。

Computational notebooks, such as Jupyter notebooks, are interactive computing environments that are ubiquitous among data scientists to perform data wrangling and analytic tasks. To measure the performance of AI pair programmers that automatically synthesize programs for those tasks given natural language (NL) intents from users, we build ARCADE, a benchmark of 1082 code generation problems using the pandas data analysis framework in data science notebooks. ARCADE features multiple rounds of NL-to-code problems from the same notebook. It requires a model to understand rich multi-modal contexts, such as existing notebook cells and their execution states as well as previous turns of interaction. To establish a strong baseline on this challenging task, we develop PaChiNCo, a 62B code language model (LM) for Python computational notebooks, which significantly outperforms public code LMs. Finally, we explore few-shot prompting strategies to elicit better code with step-by-step decomposition and NL explanation, showing the potential to improve the diversity and explainability of model predictions.

预训练的语言模型（PLM）在自然语言生成（NLG）任务中取得了显着的成功。到目前为止，大多数PLM都使用大型一般语料库以无监督的方式进行了预培训。同时，与无监督的模型相比，预先训练的模型越来越多地显示出较低的数据表现出色。受监督预训练的成功的激励，我们提出了自然语言生成的多任务监督预训练（MVP）。为了预先培训文本生成模型MVP，我们从七个生成任务中收集了45个数据集的标记预训练语料库。对于每个任务，我们进一步预先训练特定的软提示，以刺激执行特定任务的模型能力。广泛的实验证明了我们在许多NLG任务中有监督的预训练的有效性，并且我们的一般方法在17个数据集中的12个中实现了最先进的性能。

在科学研究中，该方法是解决科学问题和关键研究对象的必不可少手段。随着科学的发展，正在提出，修改和使用许多科学方法。作者在抽象和身体文本中描述了该方法的详细信息，并且反映该方法名称的学术文献中的关键实体称为方法实体。在大量的学术文献中探索各种方法实体有助于学者了解现有方法，为研究任务选择适当的方法并提出新方法。此外，方法实体的演变可以揭示纪律的发展并促进知识发现。因此，本文对方法论和经验作品进行了系统的综述，重点是从全文学术文献中提取方法实体，并努力使用这些提取的方法实体来建立知识服务。首先提出了本综述涉及的关键概念的定义。基于这些定义，我们系统地审查了提取和评估方法实体的方法和指标，重点是每种方法的利弊。我们还调查了如何使用提取的方法实体来构建新应用程序。最后，讨论了现有作品的限制以及潜在的下一步。

To extend the scope of coding queries to more realistic settings, we propose ODEX, the first open-domain execution-based natural language (NL) to code generation dataset. ODEX has 945 NL-Code pairs spanning 79 diverse libraries, along with 1,707 human-written test cases for execution. Our NL-Code pairs are harvested from StackOverflow forums to encourage natural and practical coding queries, which are then carefully rephrased to ensure intent clarity and prevent potential data memorization. Moreover, ODEX supports four natural languages as intents, in English, Spanish, Japanese, and Russian. ODEX unveils intriguing behavioral differences between top-performing Code LMs: Codex performs better on open-domain queries, yet CodeGen captures a better balance between open- and closed-domain. ODEX corroborates the merits of execution-based evaluation over metrics without execution but also unveils their complementary effects. Powerful models such as CodeGen-6B only achieve an 11.96 pass rate at top-1 prediction, suggesting plenty of headroom for improvement. We release ODEX to facilitate research into open-domain problems for the code generation community.

机器学习的最新进展显着改善了对源代码数据的理解，并在许多下游任务上取得了良好的表现。像GitHub这样的开源存储库使用丰富的未标记代码数据启用此过程。但是，缺乏高质量标记的数据在很大程度上阻碍了几个相关任务的进度，例如程序翻译，摘要，合成和代码搜索。本文介绍了XLCOST，跨语言代码摘要数据集，这是一种用于跨语言代码智能的新基准数据集。我们的数据集包含来自8种语言（7种常用编程语言和英语）的细粒并行数据，并支持10个跨语性代码任务。据我们所知，就规模和语言数量而言，它是源代码的最大并行数据集。我们还为每个任务提供了几种最先进的基线模型的性能。我们认为，这个新数据集可能是研究界的宝贵资产，并促进了跨语法代码智能的新方法的开发和验证。

学术研究是解决以前从未解决过的问题的探索活动。通过这种性质，每个学术研究工作都需要进行文献审查，以区分其Novelties尚未通过事先作品解决。在自然语言处理中，该文献综述通常在“相关工作”部分下进行。鉴于研究文件的其余部分和引用的论文列表，自动相关工作生成的任务旨在自动生成“相关工作”部分。虽然这项任务是在10年前提出的，但直到最近，它被认为是作为科学多文件摘要问题的变种。然而，即使在今天，尚未标准化了自动相关工作和引用文本生成的问题。在这项调查中，我们进行了一个元研究，从问题制定，数据集收集，方法方法，绩效评估和未来前景的角度来比较相关工作的现有文献，以便为读者洞察到国家的进步 - 最内容的研究，以及如何进行未来的研究。我们还调查了我们建议未来工作要考虑整合的相关研究领域。