Kumar Shridhar

Crowdsourced evaluation platforms such as Chatbot Arena enable real-time human assessment of model responses, but evaluating LLM-generated code remains challenging due to long outputs and the need to reason about execution behavior. We introduce BigCodeArena, an open human evaluation platform for code generation with an on-the-fly execution backend. BigCodeArena executes LLM-generated code and allows humans to interact directly with execution processes and outcomes. We collect over 14K code-centric conversations across 10 widely used LLMs, spanning 10 programming languages and 8 execution environments, including more than 4.7K multi-turn samples with pairwise human preferences. Our analysis reveals fine-grained preferences across tasks, languages, and frameworks. With the collected data, we construct two benchmarks: BigCodeReward, which measures alignment between reward models and human preferences, and AutoCodeArena, an automated Elo-style benchmark for code generation. Results show that execution feedback improves preference modeling, and that proprietary models such as GPT-5 and Claude-4 variants remain strong performers.

Open LLMs enable AI practitioners to control development costs by building on an existing foundation for downstream applications. While offering substantial promise, current models often fail to meet the needs of users needing open solutions aligned with responsible AI principles, including data...