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DS-1000: A Natural and Reliable Benchmark for Data Science Code Generation

Software Engineering 2022-11-22 v1 Computation and Language

Abstract

We introduce DS-1000, a code generation benchmark with a thousand data science problems spanning seven Python libraries, such as NumPy and Pandas. Compared to prior works, DS-1000 incorporates three core features. First, our problems reflect diverse, realistic, and practical use cases since we collected them from StackOverflow. Second, our automatic evaluation is highly specific (reliable) -- across all Codex-002-predicted solutions that our evaluation accept, only 1.8% of them are incorrect; we achieve this with multi-criteria metrics, checking both functional correctness by running test cases and surface-form constraints by restricting API usages or keywords. Finally, we proactively defend against memorization by slightly modifying our problems to be different from the original StackOverflow source; consequently, models cannot answer them correctly by memorizing the solutions from pre-training. The current best public system (Codex-002) achieves 43.3% accuracy, leaving ample room for improvement. We release our benchmark at https://ds1000-code-gen.github.io.

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@article{arxiv.2211.11501,
  title  = {DS-1000: A Natural and Reliable Benchmark for Data Science Code Generation},
  author = {Yuhang Lai and Chengxi Li and Yiming Wang and Tianyi Zhang and Ruiqi Zhong and Luke Zettlemoyer and Scott Wen-tau Yih and Daniel Fried and Sida Wang and Tao Yu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.11501},
  year   = {2022}
}
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