
SwiftCoder: Making AI-Generated Code Better & Faster
Fine-tuning LLMs to prioritize both correctness and efficiency in code generation
SwiftCoder addresses a critical gap in AI code generation by teaching language models to write not just functional code, but efficient code.
- Creates a specialized dataset of high-quality, efficient code solutions
- Uses multiple LLMs to generate diverse candidate solutions
- Optimizes for both correctness (does it work?) and efficiency (does it work well?)
- Demonstrates that code efficiency can be significantly improved through targeted fine-tuning
For engineering teams, this research offers a pathway to AI coding assistants that align with professional software development standards, potentially reducing technical debt and improving system performance from the start.
SwiftCoder: Enhancing Code Generation in Large Language Models through Efficiency-Aware Fine-tuning