CodeCriticBench: A Holistic Code Critique Benchmark for Large Language
  Models
Authors: name: Alexander Zhang; name: Marcus Dong; name: Jiaheng Liu; name: Wei Zhang; name: Yejie Wang; name: Jian Yang; name: Ge Zhang; name: Tianyu Liu; name: Zhongyuan Peng; name: Yingshui Tan; name: Yuanxing Zhang; name: Zhexu Wang; name: Weixun Wang; name: Yancheng He; name: Ken Deng; name: Wangchunshu Zhou; name: Wenhao Huang; name: Zhaoxiang Zhang
Published: 2025-02-23 15:36:43

Abstract: The critique capacity of Large Language Models (LLMs) is essential for
reasoning abilities, which can provide necessary suggestions (e.g., detailed
analysis and constructive feedback). Therefore, how to evaluate the critique
capacity of LLMs has drawn great attention and several critique benchmarks have
been proposed. However, existing critique benchmarks usually have the following
limitations: (1). Focusing on diverse reasoning tasks in general domains and
insufficient evaluation on code tasks (e.g., only covering code generation
task), where the difficulty of queries is relatively easy (e.g., the code
queries of CriticBench are from Humaneval and MBPP). (2). Lacking comprehensive
evaluation from different dimensions. To address these limitations, we
introduce a holistic code critique benchmark for LLMs called CodeCriticBench.
Specifically, our CodeCriticBench includes two mainstream code tasks (i.e.,
code generation and code QA) with different difficulties. Besides, the
evaluation protocols include basic critique evaluation and advanced critique
evaluation for different characteristics, where fine-grained evaluation
checklists are well-designed for advanced settings. Finally, we conduct
extensive experimental results of existing LLMs, which show the effectiveness
of CodeCriticBench.