PythonSaga

About Dataset

Driven by the surge in code generation using large language models (LLMs), numerous benchmarks have emerged to evaluate these LLMs' capabilities. We conducted a large-scale human evaluation of HumanEval and MBPP, two popular benchmarks for Python code generation, analyzing their diversity and difficulty. Our findings unveil a critical bias towards a limited set of programming concepts, neglecting most of the other concepts entirely. Furthermore, we uncover a worrying prevalence of easy tasks that can inflate model performance estimations. To address these limitations, we propose a novel benchmark, PythonSaga, featuring 185 hand-crafted prompts in a balanced representation of 38 programming concepts across diverse difficulty levels. The robustness of our benchmark is demonstrated by the poor performance of existing Code-LLMs. The code and dataset are openly available to the NLP community at https://github.com/PythonSaga/PythonSaga.

@inproceedings{yadav-etal-2024-pythonsaga,
    title = "{P}ython{S}aga: Redefining the Benchmark to Evaluate Code Generating {LLM}s",
    author = "Yadav, Ankit  and
      Beniwal, Himanshu  and
      Singh, Mayank",
    editor = "Al-Onaizan, Yaser  and
      Bansal, Mohit  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung",
    booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024",
    month = nov,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Miami, Florida, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-emnlp.996/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.findings-emnlp.996",
    pages = "17113--17126"
}