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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2024
Filed:
May. 15, 2021
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc., Redmond, WA (US);
Miltiadis Allamanis, Cambridge, GB;
Daya Guo, Zhuhai, CN;
Shao Kun Deng, Bellevue, WA (US);
Neelakantan Sundaresan, Bellevue, WA (US);
Alexey Svyatkovskiy, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC., Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A code completion tool uses a neural transformer model with attention to generate syntactically-correct candidates with holes to complete a partially-formed code snippet. The model is trained to predict the expansion of non-terminal symbols of the production rules of the underlying grammar of the code snippet without being constrained to a left-to-right expansion order. A hole is a non-terminal symbol of the grammar of a programming language that marks a position in a candidate where the code completion engine is not certain of the production rule that should be used to expand the non-terminal symbol. The hole allows the code completion engine to expand other non-terminal symbols in a candidate and allow the user to guide the expansion of the holes in a candidate.