DI-BENCH: Benchmarking Large Language Models on Dependency Inference with Testable Repositories at Scale

ACL ARR 2024 December Submission1519 Authors

Abstract: Large Language Models have advanced automated software development, however, it remains a challenge to correctly infer dependencies, namely, identifying the internal components and external packages required for a repository to successfully run. Existing studies highlight that dependency-related issues cause over 40% of observed runtime errors on the generated repository. To address this, we introduce DI-BENCH (code: https://github.com/DIBench/DIBench), a large-scale benchmark and evaluation framework specifically designed to assess LLMs' capability on dependency inference. The benchmark features 600 repositories with testing environments across Python, C#, Rust, and JavaScript. Extensive experiments with textual and execution-based metrics reveal that the current best-performing model achieves only a 42% execution pass rate, indicating significant room for improvement. DI-BENCH establishes a new viewpoint for evaluating LLM performance on repositories, paving the way for more robust end-to-end software synthesis.

Paper Type: Long

Research Area: Resources and Evaluation

Research Area Keywords: benchmarking, NLP datasets, evaluation

Contribution Types: Model analysis & interpretability, NLP engineering experiment, Data resources

Languages Studied: Programming Languages, English Language

Submission Number: 1519