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Large language models (LLMs) have recently shown strong performance in generating code from natural language prompts. However, current benchmarks are primarily focused on English overlooking low-resource languages like Bangla. This creates a critical research gap since there are no well established resources or systematic evaluations for code generation from Bangla instruction. To address the gap, we present a system that generates executable Python code from Bangla instructions. We design a two-stage pipeline where the Bangla instructions are first translated and refined into clear English version to reduce ambiguity and then the python code is generated from the refined instructions with iterative error-correction. For both instruction refinement and code generation we used the open-source GPT-20B OSS model. On the official test set our system achieves competitive results. We also analyze common errors like unclear instruction, logical mistakes, runtime issues and the need for external knowledge beyond the model’s training. Overall, our findings show that a simple translation–refinement pipeline can be an effective and low-cost approach for code generation in low-resource languages.

IJCNLP-AACL 2025

PyBhasha at BLP-2025 Task 2: Effectiveness of Semantic-Aware Translation and Ensembling in Bangla Code Generation

low-resource code generation

two-stage ensembling

instruction rewriting

semantic-aware translation

bangla instructions to python code generation

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workshop paper

In this paper, we present our submission to Task 2 of the BLP-2025 shared task on code generation from Bangla instructions. Our approach focused on enhancing instruction quality through translation and improving model performance with a two-stage ensemble strategy. We evaluated two proprietary and several open-source models under three instruction settings: original Bangla instructions, Bangla instructions translated into English using Facebook NLLB, and instructions rewritten in English with GPT-4.1. Experimental results showed that GPT-4.1-rewritten instructions consistently achieved the highest accuracy across models. For final predictions, we used a two-stage ensemble, achieving a $\textit{pass@1}$ score of $\textbf{80.0\%}$ on the hidden test set and securing 12th place on the official leaderboard. Additionally, we conducted a qualitative analysis of selected translations to illustrate how variations in instruction phrasing influenced model outputs.

Code_Gen at BLP-2025 Task 2: BanglaCode: A Cross-lingual Benchmark for Code Generation with Translation and Assertion Strategies

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown great code-generation capabilities, but their performance in low-resource languages like Bangla is largely unexplored. We participated in BLP-2025 Task 2: Code Generation in Bangla, where we built a pipeline to interpret and execute Bangla instructions using GPT-5. Extensive experiments were conducted with proprietary (GPT-4o Mini, GPT-5 Mini, GPT-5) and open-source (LLaMA 3-8B, TigerLLM-1B-it) models under translation and assertion settings. Results show that GPT-5, with translation and assertion, scored 83.8%, outperformed all baselines, while open-source models lagged due to limited Bangla adaptation. Assertion-based prompting always improved syntactic correctness, and fine-tuning reduced hallucinations across open-source models. We ranked 7th on the official leaderboard with an approach which is competitive and generalizable. Overall, our results show that translation quality, data normalization, and prompt design are key components of low-resource code generation. Furthermore, the proposed BanglaCode benchmark and preprocessing architecture provide a basis for further multilingual code-generation research.

Barrier Breakers at BLP-2025 Task 2: Enhancing LLM Code Generation Capabilities through Test-Driven Development and Code Interpreter

Over the past few years, improving LLM code generation capabilities has been a key focus in NLP research. Despite Bengali having 242 million native speakers worldwide, it receives little attention when it comes to training LLMs. More recently, various fine-tuning and augmented generation techniques have been employed to significantly enhance code generation performance. However, they require considerable expertise and resources to utilize effectively as an end user. The goal of our work is to democratize access to powerful code generation tools in resource-constrained emerging markets, enabling users to leverage them in their native language.

We introduce a novel approach that combines Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Code Interpreter (CI), utilizing open-weight models, which improves the baseline accuracy for code generation with Bengali prompts and achieves an overall accuracy of 85%. Our approach requires no finetuning and proves that even the smallest models in the same family can attain up to 98% accuracy compared to the largest models. All of our results are publicly shared in GitHub for validation and reproducibility.

Retriv at BLP-2025 Task 2: Test-Driven Feedback-Guided Framework for Bangla-to-Python Code Generation

Large Language Models (LLMs) have advanced the automated generation of code from natural language prompts. However, low-resource languages (LRLs) like Bangla remain underrepresented due to the limited availability of instruction-to-code datasets and evaluation benchmarks. To address this, the BLP Workshop at IJCNLP-AACL 2025 introduced a shared task on "Code Generation in Bangla". In this work, we propose a method that combines instruction prompting with a test-driven, feedback-guided iterative refinement process using a fine-tuned Qwen2.5-14B model. The model generates code from Bangla instructions, tests it against unit tests, and iteratively refines any failing outputs through three evaluation passes, using test feedback to guide each step. This approach helped our team "Retriv" to secure 2nd place in the shared task with a Pass@1 score of 0.934. The analysis highlights challenges in Bangla instruction understanding and Python code generation, emphasizing the need for targeted methods in LRLs. We made experimental scripts publicly available for the community.

TeamB2B at BLP-2025 Task 2: BanglaForge: LLM Collaboration with Self-Refinement for Bangla Code Generation

Bangla is a low-resource language for code generation, lacking large-scale annotated datasets and tools to transform natural language specifications into executable programs. This makes Bangla-to-code generation a challenging task requiring innovative solutions. To address this, we introduce BanglaForge, a novel framework for generating code from Bangla function descriptions. BanglaForge leverages a retrieval-augmented dual-model collaboration paradigm with self-refinement, combining in-context learning, llm-based translation, systematic prompt engineering, and iterative self-refinement based on execution feedback, where a coder generates initial solutions and a reviewer enhances them for robustness. On the BLP-2025 Bangla Code Generation benchmark, BanglaForge achieves a competitive Pass@1 accuracy of 84.00%, demonstrating the effectiveness of retrieval, model collaboration, and self-refinement for low-resource Bangla code generation.

Musafir at BLP_2025 Task 2: Generating Python Code from Bangla Prompts using a Multi Model Cascade and Unit Test Validation

This paper presents our approach for the BLP25 Task 2: Code Generation in Bangla. To address the scarcity of Bangla–code training data, we adopt a two-stage pipeline. First, Bangla problem statements are translated into English using a neural translation model optimized for preserving technical semantics. Then, the translated text is passed to a Qwen-based code generation model to produce executable solutions. This translation–generation strategy leverages the strengths of English-centric code models while ensuring fidelity to the original Bangla instructions. Our system achieved competitive performance on the leaderboard, achieving the 3rd place with score of 91.8% while demonstrating that translation-augmented pipelines are effective for low-resource code generation tasks.

PyBangla at BLP-2025 Task 2: Enhancing Bangla-to-Python Code Generation with Iterative Self-Correction and Multilingual Agents

Code generation from natural language instructions in Bangla is a fundamental task in programming automation, as explored in BLP-2025 Shared Task 2: Code Generation in Bangla. Current code generation models are designed primarily for high-resource languages such as English, which creates major limitations when applied to Bangla. The key challenges are limited training data and difficulty in correctly interpreting Bangla programming instructions. In this paper, to accommodate Bangla instructions, we present a chain of thought (CoT) based prompting approach with Qwen2.5-Coder-14B model. We further introduce few-shot example in the prompt template to improve the accuracy. During competition, an accuracy of 93\% is achieved in the shared test set (test\_v1.csv) and 82.6\% is achieved on the public and private test sets (hidden). After the competition is closed, we implement a debugger prompt technique which refines answers with 3 iterative fixing attempts. Applying this new technique on the public shared test set, our system outperforms by 7\% and achieves 100\% accuracy on the public test set, highlighting the effectiveness of combining CoT prompting with iterative debugging.

Overview of BLP-2025 Task 2: Code Generation in Bangla

We present a formally grounded description of a reward-selective fine-tuning (RSFT) pipeline for code generation from Bangla natural-language prompts. The implemented system mines candidate programs via temperature and nucleus sampling, executes candidates in a sandbox and retains programs that pass all unit tests, performs supervised fine-tuning (SFT) on winners using parameter-efficient Low rank adaptation (LoRA) adapters, and augments robustness through fuzzed asserts. We specify the exact objectives and estimators used, provide a Bangla-aware preprocessing recipe, prove simple properties of the sampling budget, and report an ablation showing the effect of inference sample budget $K$ on accuracy. We also include a threat model for safe execution. Our codes are available on GitHub.

Troopers at BLP-2025 Task 2: Reward-Selective Fine-Tuning based Code Generation Approach for Bangla Prompts

This paper explores various prompting strategies in the BLP-2025 Shared Task 2, utilizing a pipeline that first translates Bangla problem descriptions into English with GPT-4o,
then applies techniques like zero-shot, few-shot,
chain of thought, synthetic test case integration, and a self-repair loop. We evaluated four
LLMs (GPT-4o, Grok-3, Claude 3.7 Sonnet,
and Qwen2.5-Coder 14B). Our findings reveal
that while traditional methods like few-shot
and chain-of-thought prompting provided inconsistent gains, the integration of explicit unit
tests delivered a substantial performance boost
across all models. The most effective strategy
combined zero-shot prompting with these synthetic tests and a self-repair loop, leading GPT4o to achieve a top Pass@1 score of 72.2%.
These results represent the value of using explicit constraints and iterative feedback in code
generation, offering a solid framework that improves the model’s code generation capabilities.

AlphaBorno at BLP-2025 Task 2: Code Generation with Structured Prompts and Execution Feedback

This paper presents our submission for Task 2 of the Bangla Language Processing (BLP) Workshop, which focuses on generating Python code from Bangla programming prompts in a low-resource setting. We address this challenge by fine-tuning the gemma-2-9b instruction-tuned model using parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) with QLoRA. We propose an iterative self-improvement strategy that augments the extremely limited training data (74 examples) by reusing verified correct predictions from the development set, alongside LoRA rank experiments (8, 16, 32), observing a clear correlation between rank and accuracy, with rank 32 delivering the best results. Compared to translation-based and retrieval-augmented baselines, our approach achieves significantly higher accuracy, with a pass rate of 47% on the development set and 37% on the hidden test set. These results highlight the effectiveness of combining iterative data augmentation with rank optimisation for specialised, low-resource code generation tasks.

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