| This is an **interactive** blog, to give an overview of open-source language models for code generation. We present their pretraining datasets, model architecture and model evaluation along with examples and tips to use the 🤗 hub for this task. At the end of this blog, you will find a **demo** to test and compare code generation across these models ✨. | |
| ## Introduction | |
| The application of language models to code generation has sparked significant interest recently. You have probably heard of [Codex](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.03374v2.pdf), the model behind [Github Copilot](https://copilot.github.com/), or [AlphaCode](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.07814v1.pdf) for competition-level programming. These models aren't open-source, and it is hard to reproduce them with a limited budget and incomplete information about their training. The ML community has luckily contributed some code models to allow for further research. | |
| However, It can be easy to get lost between the models, so at Hugging Face we aim to democratize ML and centralize all information in the 🤗 hub to make the usage of open-source tools easier and more efficient. Code models aren't an exception, you can find all open-source models on the hub, with several code datasets and evaluation metrics. In this blog we will give an overview of these tools and how to use them. |