arXiv Computation and Language By Nishat Raihan, Christian Newman, Marcos Zampieri

A Taxonomy of Programming Languages for Code Generation

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The paper introduces the first reproducible taxonomy for programming languages based on resource availability, categorizing 646 languages into four tiers. It finds that a small fraction (1.9%) of high-resource languages (Tier 3) generate the majority (74.6%) of tokens in major corpora, while the majority of languages (71.7%) are scarce and contribute only 1.0% of tokens. Statistical analysis confirms the extreme and systematic imbalance across tiers.

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Sep 15

The Language-Energy Divide: Measuring Energy Costs of Multilingual LLM Inference

The paper investigates the energy costs of multilingual large language model (LLM) inference, revealing significant disparities across languages. Using the ML.Energy framework, the authors find that energy consumption per output token can differ by up to 8.3×, and total energy for a fixed request set can vary up to 179×, with English being the cheapest and Pashto the most expensive. The study attributes these differences to higher per-token costs for complex or rare scripts and longer outputs for low‑resource languages, and notes that high‑energy languages also tend to have lower task accuracy.

By Naihao Deng, Alissa Shen, Yiming Feng, Joan Nwatu, Jae-Won Chung, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Yulong Chen, Rada Mihalcea