transformers/docs/source/en/model_doc/plbart.md

This model was published in HF papers on 2021-03-10 and contributed to Hugging Face Transformers on 2022-02-18.

PLBart

Overview

The PLBART model was proposed in Unified Pre-training for Program Understanding and Generation by Wasi Uddin Ahmad, Saikat Chakraborty, Baishakhi Ray, Kai-Wei Chang. This is a BART-like model which can be used to perform code-summarization, code-generation, and code-translation tasks. The pre-trained model plbart-base has been trained using multilingual denoising task on Java, Python and English.

According to the abstract

Code summarization and generation empower conversion between programming language (PL) and natural language (NL), while code translation avails the migration of legacy code from one PL to another. This paper introduces PLBART, a sequence-to-sequence model capable of performing a broad spectrum of program and language understanding and generation tasks. PLBART is pre-trained on an extensive collection of Java and Python functions and associated NL text via denoising autoencoding. Experiments on code summarization in the English language, code generation, and code translation in seven programming languages show that PLBART outperforms or rivals state-of-the-art models. Moreover, experiments on discriminative tasks, e.g., program repair, clone detection, and vulnerable code detection, demonstrate PLBART's effectiveness in program understanding. Furthermore, analysis reveals that PLBART learns program syntax, style (e.g., identifier naming convention), logical flow (e.g., if block inside an else block is equivalent to else if block) that are crucial to program semantics and thus excels even with limited annotations.

This model was contributed by gchhablani. The Authors' code can be found here.

Usage examples

PLBart is a multilingual encoder-decoder (sequence-to-sequence) model primarily intended for code-to-text, text-to-code, code-to-code tasks. As the model is multilingual it expects the sequences in a different format. A special language id token is added in both the source and target text. The source text format is X [eos, src_lang_code] where X is the source text. The target text format is [tgt_lang_code] X [eos]. bos is never used.

However, for fine-tuning, in some cases no language token is provided in cases where a single language is used. Please refer to the paper to learn more about this.

In cases where the language code is needed, the regular [~PLBartTokenizer.__call__] will encode source text format when you pass texts as the first argument or with the keyword argument text, and will encode target text format if it's passed with the text_target keyword argument.

Supervised training

from transformers import PLBartTokenizer


tokenizer = PLBartTokenizer.from_pretrained("uclanlp/plbart-base", src_lang="en_XX", tgt_lang="python")
example_python_phrase = "def maximum(a,b,c):NEW_LINE_INDENTreturn max([a,b,c])"
expected_translation_english = "Returns the maximum value of a b c."
inputs = tokenizer(example_python_phrase, text_target=expected_translation_english, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)
model(**inputs)

Generation

While generating the target text set the decoder_start_token_id to the target language id. The following example shows how to translate Python to English using the uclanlp/plbart-python-en_XX model.

from transformers import PLBartForConditionalGeneration, PLBartTokenizer


tokenizer = PLBartTokenizer.from_pretrained("uclanlp/plbart-python-en_XX", src_lang="python", tgt_lang="en_XX")
example_python_phrase = "def maximum(a,b,c):NEW_LINE_INDENTreturn max([a,b,c])"
inputs = tokenizer(example_python_phrase, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)
model = PLBartForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained("uclanlp/plbart-python-en_XX", device_map="auto")
translated_tokens = model.generate(**inputs, decoder_start_token_id=tokenizer.lang_code_to_id["en_XX"])
tokenizer.batch_decode(translated_tokens, skip_special_tokens=True)[0]
"Returns the maximum value of a b c."

Resources

• Text classification task guide
• Causal language modeling task guide
• Translation task guide
• Summarization task guide

PLBartConfig

autodoc PLBartConfig

PLBartTokenizer

autodoc PLBartTokenizer - build_inputs_with_special_tokens

PLBartModel

autodoc PLBartModel - forward

PLBartForConditionalGeneration

autodoc PLBartForConditionalGeneration - forward

PLBartForSequenceClassification

autodoc PLBartForSequenceClassification - forward

PLBartForCausalLM

autodoc PLBartForCausalLM - forward