cs.PLMay 27, 2026

FPMoE: A Sparse Mixture-of-Experts Approach to Functional Code Generation

Authors: Loc PhamLang Hong Nguyet AnhThanh Le-Cong

Organizations: GreenNode AI, Singapore · Hanoi University of Science and Technology · Singapore University of Technology and Design

Abstract

Despite rapid progress in LLM-based code generation, existing models are predominantly trained on imperative languages, leaving functional programming languages (FPLs) such as Haskell, OCaml, and Scala chronically underexplored, with even frontier models performing substantially worse on FPLs. Fine-tuning is a natural remedy, but our experiments show that per-language fine-tuning fails to capture shared functional abstractions, while merged multi-language fine-tuning introduces cross-language interference. To address this, we introduce FPMoE, a lightweight, open-source code generation model built on a sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture with three language-specific routed experts (one each for Haskell, OCaml, and Scala) and a shared expert that captures cross-language functional patterns such as monadic reasoning and type-directed programming. This design resolves both failure modes simultaneously: dedicated experts eliminate interference, while the shared expert preserves abstractions that per-language models miss. On FPEval, FPMoE substantially outperforms fine-tuned baselines and, with only 3B active parameters, matches the performance of much larger models including DeepSeek-Coder-6.7B, Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct, and Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B.

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