CoIR: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Code Information Retrieval Models (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods and benchmarks for information retrieval are inadequately representing the diversity of code in various domains and tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark specifically designed to assess code retrieval capabilities. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark aims to invigorate research in the code retrieval domain . it shares the same data schema as other popular benchmarks like MTEB and BEIR . |
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