Austin et al. (2021) — ARXIV-2108.07732

Key takeaways

  • MBPP: around a thousand short Python problems, crowd-sourced, each with a natural-language description and three test cases — deliberately basic, which is the point of the name and the reason it discriminates at a different part of the capability range than HumanEval
  • Also introduces a Python-rewritten MathQA split, less used
  • Correctness is measured by executing the tests, so a pass is a pass on three cases rather than a proof — the same bound HumanEval carries, and the reason SOTA-210’s pass@k estimator exists

Standing in the anthology

Carries no practice, deliberately — ADR-032.

Filed as the other half of a pair the record already half-held: LIT-388 is HumanEval, filed in the benchmark unit, and ten documents here report MBPP beside it. A code result quoted on one and not the other is a narrower claim than it looks, and until now the record could name only one of them.

Unread — no NOTE.