Experiment 1 – Latin Square 1: CCT5 & COME on MCMD
This repository contains the artifacts for Latin Square 1 of Experiment 1, which corresponds to the reproduction of the original experiment by Wu et al. (2025) on the MCMD dataset using the DNN-based commit message generation baselines CCT5 and COME.
Models
CCT5
CCT5 is a code-change-oriented pre-trained model built on top of the T5 architecture, initialized from CodeT5 weights. It is further specialized through pre-training on CodeChangeNet, a commit-diff dataset containing roughly 40GB of diff and commit message pairs (~1.5M pairs). It was released at ESEC/FSE 2023.
Contains the model checkpoint files for CCT5 and COME reused from the original authors' repositories, fine-tuned on the MCMD training set for the corresponding language.
predictions/
Contains the generated commit messages produced by each model on the MCMD test set for the corresponding language, stored as .txt files with one prediction per line aligned to the reference messages.
metrics/
Contains the computed evaluation metric scores for each model-language combination. Metrics are calculated by comparing predictions against the reference messages in the MCMD test set.
Evaluation Metrics
Metric
Description
BLEU
Bilingual Evaluation Understudy — measures n-gram precision between generated and reference messages
METEOR
Metric for Evaluation of Translation with Explicit Ordering — extends BLEU with recall, stemming, and synonym matching
ROUGE-L
Recall-Oriented Understudy for Gisting Evaluation (LCS variant) — measures longest common subsequence overlap