DyCodeEval: Dynamic Benchmarking of Reasoning Capabilities in Code Large Language Models Under Data Contamination

The rapid advancement of code large language models (Code LLMs) underscores the critical need for effective and transparent benchmarking methods. However, current benchmarking predominantly relies on publicly available, humancreated datasets. The widespread use of these static benchmark datasets makes the evaluation process particularly susceptible to data contamination-an unavoidable consequence of the extensive data collection processes employed during LLM training. Existing methods for addressing data contamination typically face significant limitations, including reliance on substantial human effort and difficulty in managing class imbalances. To overcome these challenges, we propose DyCodeEval, a novel benchmarking suite specifically designed to evaluate Code LLMs under realistic contamination scenarios. Given an initial seed programming problem, DyCodeEval utilizes multiple agents to systematically extract and modify contextual information without changing the core logic, generating semantically equivalent variations. We introduce a dynamic data generation method and conduct extensive empirical studies on two seed datasets involving 18 Code LLMs. The results demonstrate that DyCodeEval effectively assesses the reasoning capabilities of Code LLMs under contamination conditions while producing diverse problem variants, thereby ensuring robust and consistent benchmarking outcomes. Our project webpage can be found at this link 1 .