Neural Code Generation Enhancement via Functional Overlap Reranking

Code Large Language Models (CodeLLMs) have marked a new era in code generation advancements. However, selecting the best solutions from all possible CodeLLM solutions remains a challenge. Previous methods frequently overlooked the intricate functional similarities and interactions between clusters, resulting in suboptimal results. In this work, we introduce SRank, a novel reranking strategy for selecting the best solution from code generation that focuses on modeling the relationship between clusters of solutions. By quantifying the functional overlap between clusters, our approach provides a better ranking strategy of code solutions. Empirical results show that our method achieves remarkable results on pass@1 score. For instance, on the Human-Eval benchmark, we achieve 69.66% in pass@1 with Codex002, 75.31% for WizardCoder, 53.99% for StarCoder and 60.55% for CodeGen, which surpass the state-of-the-arts solution ranking methods, such as CodeT and Coder-Reviewer on the same CodeLLM with significant margin (≈ 6.1% improvement on average). Even in scenarios with a limited number of sampled solutions and test cases, our approach demonstrates robustness and superiority, marking a new benchmark in code generation reranking.