evalstone/evalscope/docs/en/benchmarks/live_code_bench.md
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Live-Code-Bench

Overview

LiveCodeBench is a contamination-free benchmark for evaluating code generation models on real-world competitive programming problems. It continuously collects new problems from coding platforms to ensure models haven't seen the test data during training.

Task Description

  • Task Type: Competitive Programming / Code Generation
  • Input: Programming problem description with input/output format
  • Output: Complete solution code
  • Source: Problems from LeetCode, Codeforces, and AtCoder

Key Features

  • Continuously updated with new problems post model training cutoff
  • Problems from major competitive programming platforms
  • Multiple test cases per problem for thorough evaluation
  • Date-based filtering to control for data contamination
  • Supports both local and sandbox code execution

Evaluation Notes

  • Default configuration uses 0-shot evaluation
  • Security Warning: By default, code is executed in the local environment. We recommend using sandbox execution. See the sandbox documentation for details.
  • Use start_date and end_date parameters to filter problems by date
  • Default timeout is 6 seconds per test case
  • Supports pass@k metric calculation

Properties

Property Value
Benchmark Name live_code_bench
Dataset ID evalscope/livecodebench_code_generation_lite_parquet
Paper N/A
Tags Coding
Metrics acc
Default Shots 0-shot
Evaluation Split test
Aggregation mean_and_pass_at_k

Data Statistics

Metric Value
Total Samples 1,055
Prompt Length (Mean) 1700.76 chars
Prompt Length (Min/Max) 717 / 4234 chars

Sample Example

Subset: release_latest

{
  "input": [
    {
      "id": "6b6a6121",
      "content": "### Question:\nThere are three cards with letters $\\texttt{a}$, $\\texttt{b}$, $\\texttt{c}$ placed in a row in some order. You can do the following operation at most once: \n\n \n-  Pick two cards, and swap them.  Is it possible that the row becom ... [TRUNCATED] ... s from stdin solve the problem and write the answer to stdout (do not directly test on the sample inputs). Enclose your code within delimiters as follows.\n```python\n# YOUR CODE HERE\n```\n\n ### Answer: (use the provided format with backticks)\n\n"
    }
  ],
  "target": "",
  "id": 0,
  "group_id": 0,
  "metadata": {
    "evaluation_sample": "{\"inputs\": [\"6\\nabc\\nacb\\nbac\\nbca\\ncab\\ncba\\n\", \"1\\nabc\\n\", \"3\\nabc\\nabc\\nabc\\n\", \"5\\ncab\\nacb\\ncba\\nbac\\nbca\\n\", \"6\\nabc\\nabc\\nabc\\nabc\\nabc\\nabc\\n\"], \"outputs\": [\"YES\\nYES\\nYES\\nNO\\nNO\\nYES\\n\", \"YES\\n\", \"YES\\nYES\\nYES\\n\", \"NO\\nYES\\nYES\\nYES\\nNO\\n\", \"YES\\nYES\\nYES\\nYES\\nYES\\nYES\\n\"], \"fn_name\": null}",
    "contest_date": "2023-08-21T00:00:00"
  }
}

Note: Some content was truncated for display.

Prompt Template

Prompt Template:

### Question:
{question_content}

{format_prompt} ### Answer: (use the provided format with backticks)


Extra Parameters

Parameter Type Default Description
start_date `str null` None
end_date `str null` None
debug bool False Enable verbose debug logging and bypass certain safety checks.

Sandbox Configuration

This benchmark requires a sandbox environment for code execution.

{
  "image": "python:3.11-slim",
  "tools_config": {
    "shell_executor": {},
    "python_executor": {}
  }
}

Usage

Using CLI

evalscope eval \
    --model YOUR_MODEL \
    --api-url OPENAI_API_COMPAT_URL \
    --api-key EMPTY_TOKEN \
    --datasets live_code_bench \
    --sandbox '{"enabled": true}' \
    --limit 10  # Remove this line for formal evaluation

Using Python

from evalscope import run_task
from evalscope.config import TaskConfig

task_cfg = TaskConfig(
    model='YOUR_MODEL',
    api_url='OPENAI_API_COMPAT_URL',
    api_key='EMPTY_TOKEN',
    datasets=['live_code_bench'],
    sandbox={'enabled': True},
    dataset_args={
        'live_code_bench': {
            # extra_params: {}  # uses default extra parameters
        }
    },
    limit=10,  # Remove this line for formal evaluation
)

run_task(task_cfg=task_cfg)