Thinking Before Running! Efficient Code Generation with Thorough Exploration and Optimal Refinement

Understand

Code generation is crucial in software engineering for automating the coding process efficiently.

• While test-time computation methods show promise, they suffer from high latency due to multiple computation rounds.
• To overcome this, we introduce \textbf{ThinkCoder}, a framework that combines thorough exploration with optimal refinement.
• The exploration phase diversifies the solution space by searching for potential solutions, followed by a refinement phase that enhances precision.