Are you Synthesizing or Recalling? Evaluating LLMs on Algorithmic Code Retrieval

arXiv:2610.02438v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong performance in code generation, where success depends on both recalling relevant algorithmic knowledge and reasoning about how to apply it. However, existing LLM pipelines are opaque, with no explicit separation between these two components. We argue that for well-known algorithms whose canonical implementations are widely accessible in pretraining corpora, code generation is better measured as \textit{parametric code retrieval}: reproducing a named algorithm from internalised knowledge rath

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