Code and data for our ICLR 2024 paper SWE-bench: Can Language Models Resolve Real-World GitHub Issues?

Please refer our website for the public leaderboard and the change log for information on the latest updates to the SWE-bench benchmark.

• [Jun. 27, 2024]: We have an exciting update for SWE-bench - with support from OpenAI's Preparedness team: We're moving to a fully containerized evaluation harness using Docker for more reproducible evaluations! Read more in our report.
• [Apr. 15, 2024]: SWE-bench has gone through major improvements to resolve issues with the evaluation harness. Read more in our report.
• [Apr. 2, 2024]: We have released SWE-agent, which sets the state-of-the-art on the full SWE-bench test set! (Tweet 🔗)
• [Jan. 16, 2024]: SWE-bench has been accepted to ICLR 2024 as an oral presentation! (OpenReview 🔗)

SWE-bench is a benchmark for evaluating large language models on real world software issues collected from GitHub. Given a codebase and an issue, a language model is tasked with generating a patch that resolves the described problem.

To access SWE-bench, copy and run the following code:

from datasets import load_dataset
swebench = load_dataset('princeton-nlp/SWE-bench', split='test')

SWE-bench uses Docker for reproducible evaluations. Follow the instructions in the Docker setup guide to install Docker on your machine. If you're setting up on Linux, we recommend seeing the post-installation steps as well.

Finally, to build SWE-bench from source, follow these steps:

git clone [email protected]:princeton-nlp/SWE-bench.git
cd SWE-bench
pip install -e .

Test your installation by running:

python -m swebench.harness.run_evaluation \
    --predictions_path gold \
    --max_workers 1 \
    --instance_ids sympy__sympy-20590 \
    --run_id validate-gold

Evaluate model predictions on SWE-bench Lite using the evaluation harness with the following command:

python -m swebench.harness.run_evaluation \
    --dataset_name princeton-nlp/SWE-bench_Lite \
    --predictions_path <path_to_predictions> \
    --max_workers <num_workers> \
    --run_id <run_id>
    # use --predictions_path 'gold' to verify the gold patches
    # use --run_id to name the evaluation run

This command will generate docker build logs (build_image_logs) and evaluation logs (run_instance_logs) in the current directory.

The final evaluation results will be stored in the evaluation_results directory.

To see the full list of arguments for the evaluation harness, run:

python -m swebench.harness.run_evaluation --help

Additionally, the SWE-Bench repo can help you:

• Train your own models on our pre-processed datasets
• Run inference on existing models (either models you have on-disk like LLaMA, or models you have access to through an API like GPT-4). The inference step is where you get a repo and an issue and have the model try to generate a fix for it.
• Run SWE-bench's data collection procedure on your own repositories, to make new SWE-Bench tasks.

We've also written the following blog posts on how to use different parts of SWE-bench. If you'd like to see a post about a particular topic, please let us know via an issue.

• [Nov 1. 2023] Collecting Evaluation Tasks for SWE-Bench (🔗)
• [Nov 6. 2023] Evaluating on SWE-bench (🔗)

We would love to hear from the broader NLP, Machine Learning, and Software Engineering research communities, and we welcome any contributions, pull requests, or issues! To do so, please either file a new pull request or issue and fill in the corresponding templates accordingly. We'll be sure to follow up shortly!

Contact person: Carlos E. Jimenez and John Yang (Email: [email protected], [email protected]).

If you find our work helpful, please use the following citations.

@inproceedings{
    jimenez2024swebench,
    title={{SWE}-bench: Can Language Models Resolve Real-world Github Issues?},
    author={Carlos E Jimenez and John Yang and Alexander Wettig and Shunyu Yao and Kexin Pei and Ofir Press and Karthik R Narasimhan},
    booktitle={The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations},
    year={2024},
    url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=VTF8yNQM66}
}

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