Code Search
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Kevin Hou: Code search requires multiple needles, unlike standard benchmarks
“Benchmarks like the one that I showed you before heavily skew towards this idea of needle in a haystack. It's the idea that you can sift through a corpus of text and find some instance of something that is relevant to you. Note, it is only one single needle. S…”
Beyang Liu: Parsing Semantic Code Entities Is Essential for Code Search
“We found it that it's absolutely essential if you're searching over code to parse things. And so you can extract specific functions and methods and classes along with the corresponding doc string and treat those as separate entities. In your system rather than…”