Silly regex error in multiPL-E dataset creates 'rsthon'

eliebakouch · x · 2026-08-17

An inspection of the multiPL-E dataset revealed a long-standing regex error during MBPP data cleaning where 'py' was replaced by 'rs'. This resulted in prompts asking to write 'rsthon' functions instead of Python, highlighting data quality issues in common benchmarks.

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