bigcode / tiny_starcoder_py

TinyStarCoderPy

This is a 164M parameters model with the same architecture as StarCoder (8k context length, MQA & FIM). It was trained on the Python data from StarCoderData for ~6 epochs which amounts to 100B tokens.

Use

Intended use

The model was trained on GitHub code, to assist with some tasks like Assisted Generation . For pure code completion, we advise using our 15B models StarCoder or StarCoderBase .

Generation

# pip install -q transformers
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

checkpoint = "bigcode/tiny_starcoder_py"
device = "cuda" # for GPU usage or "cpu" for CPU usage

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(checkpoint)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(checkpoint).to(device)

inputs = tokenizer.encode("def print_hello_world():", return_tensors="pt").to(device)
outputs = model.generate(inputs)
print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0]))

Fill-in-the-middle

Fill-in-the-middle uses special tokens to identify the prefix/middle/suffix part of the input and output:

input_text = "<fim_prefix>def print_one_two_three():\n    print('one')\n    <fim_suffix>\n    print('three')<fim_middle>"
inputs = tokenizer.encode(input_text, return_tensors="pt").to(device)
outputs = model.generate(inputs)
print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0]))

Training

Model

• Architecture: GPT-2 model with multi-query attention and Fill-in-the-Middle objective
• Pretraining steps: 50k
• Pretraining tokens: 100 billion
• Precision: bfloat16

Hardware

• GPUs: 32 Tesla A100
• Training time: 18 hours

Software

• Orchestration: Megatron-LM
• Neural networks: PyTorch
• BP16 if applicable: apex

License

The model is licensed under the BigCode OpenRAIL-M v1 license agreement. You can find the full agreement here .