Multi-Agent Collaboration for Multilingual Code Instruction Tuning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.07487v1
• Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2025 11:46:38 GMT
• Title: Multi-Agent Collaboration for Multilingual Code Instruction Tuning
• Authors: Jian Yang, Wei Zhang, Jiaxi Yang, Yibo Miao, Shanghaoran Quan, Zhenhe Wu, Qiyao Peng, Liqun Yang, Tianyu Liu, Zeyu Cui, Binyuan Hui, Junyang Lin,
• Abstract summary: We introduce a novel multi-agent collaboration framework to enhance multilingual instruction tuning for code LLMs. Multiple language-specific intelligent agent components with generation memory work together to transfer knowledge from one language to another efficiently and effectively. Experimental results on multilingual programming benchmarks demonstrate the superior performance of Qwen2.5-xCoder in sharing common knowledge.
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• Abstract: Recent advancement in code understanding and generation demonstrates that code LLMs fine-tuned on a high-quality instruction dataset can gain powerful capabilities to address wide-ranging code-related tasks. However, most previous existing methods mainly view each programming language in isolation and ignore the knowledge transfer among different programming languages. To bridge the gap among different programming languages, we introduce a novel multi-agent collaboration framework to enhance multilingual instruction tuning for code LLMs, where multiple language-specific intelligent agent components with generation memory work together to transfer knowledge from one language to another efficiently and effectively. Specifically, we first generate the language-specific instruction data from the code snippets and then provide the generated data as the seed data for language-specific agents. Multiple language-specific agents discuss and collaborate to formulate a new instruction and its corresponding solution (A new programming language or existing programming language), To further encourage the cross-lingual transfer, each agent stores its generation history as memory and then summarizes its merits and faults. Finally, the high-quality multilingual instruction data is used to encourage knowledge transfer among different programming languages to train Qwen2.5-xCoder. Experimental results on multilingual programming benchmarks demonstrate the superior performance of Qwen2.5-xCoder in sharing common knowledge, highlighting its potential to reduce the cross-lingual gap.

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