Fine-tuning Large Language Models for Turkish Flutter Code Generation

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) for code generation has largely centered on English programming queries. This paper focuses on a low-resource language scenario, specifically Turkish, in the context of Flutter mobile app development. Two representative LLMs (a 4B-parameter multilingual model and a 3B code-specialized model) on a new Turkish question-and-answer dataset for Flutter/Dart are fine-tuned in this study. Fine-tuning with parameter-efficient techniques yields dramatic improvements in code generation quality: Bilingual Evaluation Understudy (BLEU), Recall-Oriented Understudy for Gisting Evaluation (ROUGE-L), Metric for Evaluation of Translation with Explicit Ordering (METEOR), Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers Score (BERTScore), and CodeBLEU scores show significant increases. The rate of correct solutions increased from ~30–70% (for base models) to 80–90% after fine-tuning. The performance trade-offs between models are analyzed, revealing that the multilingual model slightly outperforms the code-focused model in accuracy after fine-tuning. However, the code-focused model demonstrates faster inference speeds. These results demonstrate that even with very limited non-English training data, customizing LLMs can bridge the gap in code generation, enabling high-quality assistance for Turkish developers comparable to that for English. The dataset was released on GitHub to facilitate further research in multilingual code generation.