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Can LLMs Reason About Runtime Behavior? A Repository-Level Dynamic Benchmark
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Researchers released SWE-Flux, a benchmark testing whether LLMs can reason about code execution across real Python repositories with 480 test instances.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers evaluating LLMs for code analysis tasks, especially those requiring understanding of runtime behavior and program state.
- Watch out
- Best model achieved only 37% accuracy. LLMs struggle with dataflow, cross-function execution, and precise state reasoning across multiple tests.
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