Investigating the Refactoring Capabilities of Small Open-Weight Language Models
This paper performs a broad analysis on the refactoring capabilities of small open-weight language models (SLMs) by evaluating 12 models on 3453 Python programs and indicates that current open SLMs can support refactoring tasks, especially larger ones with reasoning capabilities, but they are best used with human oversight.
Tamás Márton, Balázs Szalontai, Bal'azs Pint'er et al.
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