2025.findings-acl.373@ACL

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#1 DependEval: Benchmarking LLMs for Repository Dependency Understanding [PDF] [Copy] [Kimi] [REL]

Authors: Junjia Du, Yadi Liu, Hongcheng Guo, Jiawei Wang, Haojian Huang, Yunyi Ni, Zhoujun Li

While large language models (LLMs) have shown considerable promise in code generation, real-world software development demands advanced repository-level reasoning. This includes understanding dependencies, project structures, and managing multi-file changes. However, the ability of LLMs to effectively comprehend and handle complex code repositories has yet to be fully explored. To address these challenges, we introduce a hierarchical benchmark designed to evaluate repository dependency understanding(DependEval) for LLMs. The benchmark is based on 2683 repositories collected from real-world websites. It evaluates models on three core tasks: Dependency Recognition, Repository Construction, and Multi-file Editing, across 8 programming languages from actual code repositories. Our evaluation of over 25 LLMs reveals substantial performance gaps and provides valuable insights into repository-level code understanding.

Subject: ACL.2025 - Findings