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New ExecRetrieval benchmark reveals functional-correctness gap in code retrieval

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A new benchmark called ExecRetrieval has been introduced to measure the functional correctness of code retrieval systems. The benchmark consists of 939 Python tasks, each with a correct implementation and up to four execution-verified buggy variants that are nearly identical to the correct code. Evaluations of 23 dense embedding configurations and BM25 showed that while top systems achieved high recall at 10 items (exec@10 = 1.00), their recall at 1 item (exec@1 = 0.331) was significantly lower, with most rank-1 misses being the buggy distractors. AI

IMPACT Highlights a critical gap in code retrieval for AI agents, suggesting current methods struggle to differentiate functionally correct code from near-identical buggy versions.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a new academic paper introducing a benchmark for code retrieval.

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Aaryan Kapoor, Md Abdullah Al Hafiz Khan ·

    ExecRetrieval: Measuring the Functional-Correctness Gap in Code-Embedding Retrieval

    arXiv:2609.01865v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Embedding-based code retrieval is a core component of coding agents and retrieval-augmented code generation, where retrieving correct code matters more than retrieving lexically similar code. Existing code-retrieval benchmarks do …

  2. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Md Abdullah Al Hafiz Khan ·

    ExecRetrieval: Measuring the Functional-Correctness Gap in Code-Embedding Retrieval

    Embedding-based code retrieval is a core component of coding agents and retrieval-augmented code generation, where retrieving correct code matters more than retrieving lexically similar code. Existing code-retrieval benchmarks do not plant controlled, execution-verified single-ed…

  3. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    ExecRetrieval: Measuring the Functional-Correctness Gap in Code-Embedding Retrieval

    ExecRetrieval evaluates whether code embeddings can distinguish correct implementations from near-identical buggy variants, revealing that leading retrievers frequently rank incorrect near-clones above canonical solutions.

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