Software Metadata Classification based on Generative Artificial Intelligence
This is an incremental improvement for software developers and quality assurance teams in enhancing code comment classification models.
This paper tackles the problem of improving binary code comment quality classification by using Generative AI to generate and label new code-comment pairs, resulting in a 6% precision increase for an SVM model and a 1.5% recall increase for an ANN model.
This paper presents a novel approach to enhance the performance of binary code comment quality classification models through the application of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI). By leveraging the OpenAI API, a dataset comprising 1239 newly generated code-comment pairs, extracted from various GitHub repositories and open-source projects, has been labelled as "Useful" or "Not Useful", and integrated into the existing corpus of 9048 pairs in the C programming language. Employing a cutting-edge Large Language Model Architecture, the generated dataset demonstrates notable improvements in model accuracy. Specifically, when incorporated into the Support Vector Machine (SVM) model, a 6% increase in precision is observed, rising from 0.79 to 0.85. Additionally, the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) model exhibits a 1.5% increase in recall, climbing from 0.731 to 0.746. This paper sheds light on the potential of Generative AI in augmenting code comment quality classification models. The results affirm the effectiveness of this methodology, indicating its applicability in broader contexts within software development and quality assurance domains. The findings underscore the significance of integrating generative techniques to advance the accuracy and efficacy of machine learning models in practical software engineering scenarios.