Today’s spotlight is on a groundbreaking advancement in code-focused AI with the paper OpenCoder: The Open Cookbook for Top-Tier Code Large Language Models. As large language models (LLMs) for code become essential for tasks like code generation and reasoning, there’s a rising need for open-access, high-quality models that are suitable for scientific research and reproducible. OpenCoder addresses this need by providing not only a powerful, open-access code LLM but also a complete, transparent toolkit for the research community.

OpenCoder goes beyond standard model releases by offering model weights, inference code, reproducible training data, and a fully documented data processing pipeline—elements rarely shared by proprietary models. This paper highlights the key components for building an elite code LLM: optimized data cleaning and deduplication, curated text-code corpus recall, and the use of high-quality synthetic data. By creating an open “cookbook” for developing code LLMs, OpenCoder aims to democratize access, drive forward open scientific research, and accelerate advancements in code AI.

Link: https://huggingface.co/papers/2411.04905