BigCodeBench: Benchmarking Code Generation with Diverse Function Calls and Complex Instructions
Task automation has been greatly empowered by the recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) via Python code, where the tasks ranging from software engineering development to general-purpose reasoning. While current benchmarks have shown that LLMs can solve tasks using programs like human developers, the majority of their evaluations are limited to short and self-contained algorithmic tasks or standalone function calls. Solving challenging and practical tasks requires the capability of utilizing diverse function calls as tools to efficiently implement functionalities like data analysis and web development. In addition, using multiple tools to solve a task needs compositional reasoning by accurately understanding complex instructions. Fulfilling both of these characteristics can pose a great challenge forthis http URLassess how well LLMs can solve challenging and practical tasks via programs, we introduce BigCodeBench, a benchmark that challenges LLMs to invoke multiple function calls as tools from 139 libraries and 7 domains for 1,140 fine-grained tasks. To evaluate LLMs rigorously, each task encompasses 5.6 test cases with an average branch coverage of 99%. In addition, we propose a natural-language-oriented variant of BigCodeBench, BigCodeBench-Instruct, that automatically transforms the original docstrings into short instructions only with essential information. Our extensive evaluation of 60 LLMs shows that LLMs are not yet capable of following complex instructions to use function calls precisely, with scores up to 60%, significantly lower than the human performance of 97%. The results underscore the need for further advancements in this area.
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title={ BigCodeBench: Benchmarking Code Generation with Diverse Function Calls and Complex Instructions },
author={ Terry Yue Zhuo and Minh Chien Vu and Jenny Chim and Han Hu and Wenhao Yu and Ratnadira Widyasari and Imam Nur Bani Yusuf and Haolan Zhan and Junda He and Indraneil Paul and Simon Brunner and Chen Gong and Thong Hoang and Armel Randy Zebaze and Xiaoheng Hong and Wen-Ding Li and Jean Kaddour and Ming Xu and Zhihan Zhang and Prateek Yadav and Naman Jain and Alex Gu and Zhoujun Cheng and Jiawei Liu and Qian Liu and Zijian Wang and Binyuan Hui and Niklas Muennighoff and David Lo and Daniel Fried and Xiaoning Du and Harm de Vries and Leandro Von Werra },
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.15877},
year={ 2025 }
}