BigCodeBench

💥 Impact • 📰 News • 🔥 Quick Start • 🚀 Remote Evaluation • 💻 LLM-generated Code • 🧑 Advanced Usage • 📰 Result Submission • 📜 Citation

💥 Impact

BigCodeBench has been trusted by many LLM teams including:

• Zhipu AI
• Alibaba Qwen
• DeepSeek
• Amazon AWS AI
• Snowflake AI Research
• ServiceNow Research
• Meta AI
• Cohere AI
• Sakana AI
• Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2)

📰 News

• [2025-01-22] We are releasing bigcodebench==v0.2.2.dev2, with 163 models evaluated!
• [2024-10-06] We are releasing bigcodebench==v0.2.0!
• [2024-10-05] We create a public code execution API on the Hugging Face space.
• [2024-10-01] We have evaluated 139 models on BigCodeBench-Hard so far. Take a look at the leaderboard!
• [2024-08-19] To make the evaluation fully reproducible, we add a real-time code execution session to the leaderboard. It can be viewed here.
• [2024-08-02] We release bigcodebench==v0.1.9.

🌸 About

BigCodeBench

BigCodeBench is an easy-to-use benchmark for solving practical and challenging tasks via code. It aims to evaluate the true programming capabilities of large language models (LLMs) in a more realistic setting. The benchmark is designed for HumanEval-like function-level code generation tasks, but with much more complex instructions and diverse function calls.

There are two splits in BigCodeBench:

• Complete: Thes split is designed for code completion based on the comprehensive docstrings.
• Instruct: The split works for the instruction-tuned and chat models only, where the models are asked to generate a code snippet based on the natural language instructions. The instructions only contain necessary information, and require more complex reasoning.

Why BigCodeBench?

BigCodeBench focuses on task automation via code generation with diverse function calls and complex instructions, with:

• ✨ Precise evaluation & ranking: See our leaderboard for latest LLM rankings before & after rigorous evaluation.
• ✨ Pre-generated samples: BigCodeBench accelerates code intelligence research by open-sourcing LLM-generated samples for various models -- no need to re-run the expensive benchmarks!

🔥 Quick Start

To get started, please first set up the environment:

# By default, you will use the remote evaluation API to execute the output samples.
pip install bigcodebench --upgrade

# You are suggested to use `flash-attn` for generating code samples.
pip install packaging ninja
pip install flash-attn --no-build-isolation
# Note: if you have installation problem, consider using pre-built
# wheels from https://github.com/Dao-AILab/flash-attention/releases

# Install to use bigcodebench.generate
pip install "git+https://github.com/bigcode-project/bigcodebench.git" --upgrade

🚀 Remote Evaluation

We use the greedy decoding as an example to show how to evaluate the generated code samples via remote API.

[!Warning]

To ease the generation, we use batch inference by default. However, the batch inference results could vary from batch sizes to batch sizes and versions to versions, at least for the vLLM backend. If you want to get more deterministic results for greedy decoding, please set --bs to 1.

[!Note]

gradio backend on BigCodeBench-Full typically takes 6-7 minutes, and on BigCodeBench-Hard typically takes 4-5 minutes. e2b backend with default machine on BigCodeBench-Full typically takes 25-30 minutes, and on BigCodeBench-Hard typically takes 15-20 minutes.

bigcodebench.evaluate \
  --model meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct \
  --execution [e2b|gradio|local] \
  --split [complete|instruct] \
  --subset [full|hard] \
  --backend [vllm|openai|anthropic|google|mistral|hf|hf-inference]

• All the resulted files will be stored in a folder named bcb_results.
• The generated code samples will be stored in a file named [model_name]--bigcodebench-[instruct|complete]--[backend]-[temp]-[n_samples]-sanitized_calibrated.jsonl.
• The evaluation results will be stored in a file named [model_name]--bigcodebench-[instruct|complete]--[backend]-[temp]-[n_samples]-sanitized_calibrated_eval_results.json.
• The pass@k results will be stored in a file named [model_name]--bigcodebench-[instruct|complete]--[backend]-[temp]-[n_samples]-sanitized_calibrated_pass_at_k.json.

[!Note]

The gradio backend is hosted on the Hugging Face space by default. The default space can be sometimes slow, so we recommend you to use the gradio backend with a cloned bigcodebench-evaluator endpoint for faster evaluation. Otherwise, you can also use the e2b sandbox for evaluation, which is also pretty slow on the default machine.

[!Note]

BigCodeBench uses different prompts for base and chat models. By default it is detected by tokenizer.chat_template when using hf/vllm as backend. For other backends, only chat mode is allowed.

Therefore, if your base models come with a tokenizer.chat_template, please add --direct_completion to avoid being evaluated in a chat mode.

To use E2B, you need to set up an account and get an API key from E2B.

export E2B_API_KEY=<your_e2b_api_key>

Access OpenAI APIs from OpenAI Console

export OPENAI_API_KEY=<your_openai_api_key>

Access Anthropic APIs from Anthropic Console

export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=<your_anthropic_api_key>

Access Mistral APIs from Mistral Console

export MISTRAL_API_KEY=<your_mistral_api_key>

Access Gemini APIs from Google AI Studio

export GOOGLE_API_KEY=<your_google_api_key>

Access the Hugging Face Serverless Inference API

export HF_INFERENCE_API_KEY=<your_hf_api_key>

Please make sure your HF access token has the Make calls to inference providers permission.

💻 LLM-generated Code

We share pre-generated code samples from LLMs we have evaluated on the full set:

• See the attachment of our v0.2.4. We include sanitized_samples_calibrated.zip for your convenience.

🧑 Advanced Usage

Please refer to the ADVANCED USAGE for more details.

📰 Result Submission

Please email both the generated code samples and the execution results to terry.zhuo@monash.edu if you would like to contribute your model to the leaderboard. Note that the file names should be in the format of [model_name]--[revision]--[bigcodebench|bigcodebench-hard]-[instruct|complete]--[backend]-[temp]-[n_samples]-sanitized_calibrated.jsonl and [model_name]--[revision]--[bigcodebench|bigcodebench-hard]-[instruct|complete]--[backend]-[temp]-[n_samples]-sanitized_calibrated_eval_results.json. You can file an issue to remind us if we do not respond to your email within 3 days.

📜 Citation

@article{zhuo2024bigcodebench,
  title={BigCodeBench: Benchmarking Code Generation with Diverse Function Calls and Complex Instructions},
  author={Zhuo, Terry Yue and Vu, Minh Chien and Chim, Jenny and Hu, Han and Yu, Wenhao and Widyasari, Ratnadira and Yusuf, Imam Nur Bani and Zhan, Haolan and He, Junda and Paul, Indraneil and others},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.15877},
  year={2024}
}

🙏 Acknowledgement

• EvalPlus