Code LLMs Still Fall Short of Top Programmers: Evaluating Algorithmic Code Generation Through Computational Thinking.

@inproceedings{chen-2026-code, author = {Shisong Chen and Ziyu Zhou and Yicong Zhao and Chengyi Yang and Zhixu Li and Yanghua Xiao and Xin Lin and Xiaojun Meng and Jiansheng Wei and Kuien Liu}, title = {{Code LLMs Still Fall Short of Top Programmers: Evaluating Algorithmic Code Generation Through Computational Thinking}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the Nineteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2026, Boise, ID, USA, February 22-26, 2026}}, pages = {79--88}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3773966.3778008}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3773966.3778008} }