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title = "{SUPER}: Evaluating Agents on Setting Up and Executing Tasks from Research Repositories",
author = "Bogin, Ben and
Yang, Kejuan and
Gupta, Shashank and
Richardson, Kyle and
Bransom, Erin and
Clark, Peter and
Sabharwal, Ashish and
Khot, Tushar",
editor = "Al-Onaizan, Yaser and
Bansal, Mohit and
Chen, Yun-Nung",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
month = nov,
year = "2024",
address = "Miami, Florida, USA",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-main.702",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.emnlp-main.702",
pages = "12622--12645",
abstract = "Given that Large Language Models (LLMs) have made significant progress in writing code, can they now be used to autonomously reproduce results from research repositories? Such a capability would be a boon to the research community, helping researchers validate, understand, and extend prior work. To advance towards this goal, we introduce SUPER, the first benchmark designed to evaluate the capability of LLMs in setting up and executing tasks from research repositories. SUPER aims to capture the realistic challenges faced by researchers working with Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) research repositories. Our benchmark comprises three distinct problem sets: 45 end-to-end problems with annotated expert solutions, 152 sub-problems derived from the expert set that focus on specific challenges (e.g., configuring a trainer), and 602 automatically generated problems for larger-scale development. We introduce various evaluation measures to assess both task success and progress, utilizing gold solutions when available or approximations otherwise. We show that state-of-the-art approaches struggle to solve these problems with the best model (GPT-4o) solving only 16.3{\%} of the end-to-end set, and 46.1{\%} of the scenarios. This illustrates the challenge of this task, and suggests that SUPER can serve as a valuable resource for the community to make and measure progress.",
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%A Bogin, Ben
%A Yang, Kejuan
%A Gupta, Shashank
%A Richardson, Kyle
%A Bransom, Erin
%A Clark, Peter
%A Sabharwal, Ashish
%A Khot, Tushar
%Y Al-Onaizan, Yaser
%Y Bansal, Mohit
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%S Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
%D 2024
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Markdown (Informal)
[SUPER: Evaluating Agents on Setting Up and Executing Tasks from Research Repositories](https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-main.702) (Bogin et al., EMNLP 2024)
ACL
- Ben Bogin, Kejuan Yang, Shashank Gupta, Kyle Richardson, Erin Bransom, Peter Clark, Ashish Sabharwal, and Tushar Khot. 2024. SUPER: Evaluating Agents on Setting Up and Executing Tasks from Research Repositories. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 12622–12645, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.