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More accurate coding: Researchers adapt Sequential Monte Carlo for AI-generated code
Researchers from MIT, Yale, McGill University and others found that adapting the Sequential Monte Carlo algorithm can make AI-generated code better.
In the paper, the researchers used Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) to “tackle a number of challenging semantic parsing problems, guiding generation with incremental static and dynamic analysis.” Sequential Monte Carlo refers to a family of algorithms that help figure out solutions to filtering problems. “While importance sampling addresses several shortcomings of local decoding, it too suffers from a major weakness: weight corrections and expensive potentials are not integrated until after a complete sequence has been generated from the proposal. This is even though critical information about whether a sequence can satisfy a constraint is often available much earlier and can be used to avoid large amounts of unnecessary computation,” they said.
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