Structure-Aware Corpus Construction and User-Perception-Aligned Metrics for Large-Language-Model Code Completion

ACL ARR 2025 May Submission282 Authors

Abstract: Code completion technology based on large language model has significantly improved the development efficiency of programmers. However, in practical applications, there remains a gap between current commonly used code completion evaluation metrics and users’ actual perception. To address this issue, we propose two evaluation metrics for code completion tasks—LCP and ROUGE-LCP, from the perspective of probabilistic modeling. Furthermore, to tackle the lack of effective structural semantic modeling and cross-module dependency information in LLMs for repository-level code completion scenarios, we propose a data processing method based on a Structure Preserving and Semantically-Reordered Code Graph (SPSR-Graph). Through theoretical analysis and experimental validation, we demonstrate the superiority of the proposed evaluation metrics in terms of user perception consistency, as well as the effectiveness of the data processing method in enhancing model performance.

Paper Type: Long

Research Area: Resources and Evaluation

Research Area Keywords: code generation and understanding, evaluation methodologies, metrics

Contribution Types: Data analysis

Languages Studied: English

Keywords: code generation and understanding, evaluation methodologies, metrics

Submission Number: 282