DocuMint: Docstring Generation for Python using Small Language Models

arXiv:2405.10243v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Effective communication, specifically through documentation, is the beating heart of collaboration among contributors in software development. Recent advancements in language models (LMs) have enabled the introduction of a new type of actor in that ecosystem: LM-powered assistants capable of code generation, optimization, and maintenance. Our study investigates the efficacy of small language models (SLMs) for generating high-quality docstrings by assessing accuracy, conciseness, and clarity, benchmarking performance quantitatively through mathematical formulas and qualitatively through human evaluation …

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