Creative and Correct: Requesting Diverse Code Solutions from AI Foundation Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13259v1
• Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2024 02:51:46 GMT
• Title: Creative and Correct: Requesting Diverse Code Solutions from AI Foundation Models
• Authors: Scott Blyth, Markus Wagner, Christoph Treude,
• Abstract summary: In software engineering tasks, diversity is key to exploring design spaces and fostering creativity. Our study systematically investigates this trade-off using experiments with HumanEval tasks. We identify combinations of parameters and strategies that strike an optimal balance between diversity and correctness.
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• Abstract: AI foundation models have the capability to produce a wide array of responses to a single prompt, a feature that is highly beneficial in software engineering to generate diverse code solutions. However, this advantage introduces a significant trade-off between diversity and correctness. In software engineering tasks, diversity is key to exploring design spaces and fostering creativity, but the practical value of these solutions is heavily dependent on their correctness. Our study systematically investigates this trade-off using experiments with HumanEval tasks, exploring various parameter settings and prompting strategies. We assess the diversity of code solutions using similarity metrics from the code clone community. The study identifies combinations of parameters and strategies that strike an optimal balance between diversity and correctness, situated on the Pareto front of this trade-off space. These findings offer valuable insights for software engineers on how to effectively use AI foundation models to generate code solutions that are diverse and accurate.

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