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Constrained decoding zeroes hallucinated API calls

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load-bearing objection CD contribution is solid and immediately deployable; RAG+CD appendix tables are duplicated, undermining RQ3 verifiability. the 3 major comments →

arxiv 2607.05936 v1 pith:TDVAACU5 submitted 2026-07-07 cs.SE cs.LG

Mitigating Errors in LLM-Generated Web API Invocations via Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Constrained Decoding

Daniel Maninger , Leon Chemnitz , Jannis Brugger , Tushar Lamba , Amir Molzam Sharifloo , Mira Mezini This is my paper
classification cs.SE cs.LG
keywords generationcodespecificationsapproachesconstrainedcorrectcorrectnessdataset
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The pith

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This paper tackles the problem of LLMs generating incorrect web API invocation code—code that calls endpoints that don't exist, uses wrong HTTP methods, or passes arguments not defined in the API specification. The authors evaluate two mitigation techniques: retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), which retrieves relevant endpoint documentation from OpenAPI specifications and injects it into the model's prompt, and constrained decoding (CD), which automatically translates OpenAPI specifications into regular-expression constraints that block the model from generating any URL, HTTP method, or argument not permitted by the specification. The central mechanism is the constraint generator: a system that parses an OpenAPI specification, handles interdependencies between methods, URLs, and parameter locations (path, query, header, body), and produces hierarchical regex-based generation rules enforced token-by-token during decoding. The key finding is that CD eliminates specification violations entirely—zero hallucinated endpoints or arguments across all 24 evaluated models, both datasets, and both experimental setups—while also substantially improving overall correctness, with average gains of 143% to 209% on the synthetic dataset. RAG, by contrast, reduces hallucinations but has ambivalent effects on correctness: it helps when the model must select the endpoint itself (full completion) but can hurt when the endpoint is already provided, because models tend to over-include optional parameters they see in the retrieved documentation. The combination of RAG and CD achieves the highest peak correctness for some models but is less consistent than CD alone.

Core claim

The paper's central discovery is that OpenAPI specifications can be automatically translated into regex-based decoding constraints that make it structurally impossible for an LLM to generate a web API invocation violating the specification—no hallucinated URLs, methods, or arguments—while simultaneously improving overall correctness across models. This works because the constraints are derived directly from the machine-readable specification rather than learned or approximated, turning a soft knowledge problem (does the model remember the API?) into a hard structural guarantee (can the model generate tokens outside the allowed space?). The paper also discovers that RAG and CD interact non-tr

What carries the argument

The key machinery is the automatic constraint translator: a system that takes an OpenAPI specification and produces a set of hierarchical generation rules, each consisting of a regex-encoded start condition, stop condition, and body. The rules are triggered sequentially—first matching the HTTP method, then narrowing the URL space to endpoints supporting that method, then narrowing parameters to those defined for the identified endpoint, and finally constraining parameter values by data type. Capture groups and conditional patterns prevent duplicate parameters; negative lookahead assertions prevent closing a parameter list before all required parameters are present. The constraints are model-

Load-bearing premise

The evaluation measures correctness by comparing generated request configurations against a single ground-truth configuration per task, which may not capture the full space of valid solutions—particularly for the real-world dataset, where some tasks require no parameters beyond path variables, meaning a model can score correct simply by generating a closing parenthesis.

What would settle it

Generate a web API invocation task where multiple distinct parameter combinations are all valid solutions; if constrained decoding systematically produces only one of these while the ground truth is another, the correctness metric would undercount CD's true effectiveness.

Watch this falsifier — get emailed when new claim-graph text bears on it.

If this is right

  • Any externally documented interface with a machine-readable specification—database schemas, protocol buffers, GraphQL schemas—could in principle use the same specification-to-constraint translation to guarantee specification-compliant code generation.
  • The finding that RAG causes parameter over-inclusion suggests that retrieval-augmented code generation systems broadly may suffer from a 'completeness bias' where models treat retrieved documentation as a checklist rather than a reference, a problem that constrained decoding can partially mitigate by blocking unnecessary parameters.
  • The zero-hallucination guarantee from CD could shift the burden of API correctness verification from post-generation testing to generation-time enforcement, changing how developers interact with LLM-based code assistants for integration tasks.
  • The model-specific variability in RAG's effectiveness implies that production deployments of retrieval-augmented code generation need per-model validation, whereas CD can be applied more uniformly.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The constraint approach could be extended beyond Axios/JavaScript to other HTTP client libraries and languages, since the OpenAPI specification is language-agnostic—only the syntax-level regexes would need adaptation.
  • The observation that CD slightly increases non-executable code rates suggests a tension between structural constraint and generation fluency; investigating whether more permissive constraint formulations (e.g., allowing multiple valid syntax patterns) could reduce this penalty would be a natural next step.
  • If OpenAPI specifications could be automatically version-detected from task descriptions, the requirement for users to manually specify the API could be removed, enabling fully automated specification-to-constraint pipelines in IDE-integrated code assistants.
  • The finding that smaller constrained models can match or exceed larger unconstrained models (e.g., Code Llama 70B with CD outperforming GPT-4o without CD on argument completion) suggests that constraint enforcement may be a more cost-effective path to correctness than scaling model size.

Editorial analysis

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Desk editor's note, referee report, simulated authors' rebuttal, and a circularity audit.

Referee Report

3 major / 6 minor

Summary. The paper presents a systematic evaluation of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and constrained decoding (CD) for improving LLM-generated web API invocation code. The authors design a retriever that processes OpenAPI specifications into endpoint-level chunks and an automatic translator from OpenAPI specifications to regex-based constraints enforced during generation. They evaluate 24 open-source LLMs plus GPT-4o on the existing WAPIIBench synthetic dataset and a newly constructed 28-task real-world dataset derived from GitHub repositories, across two starter-code setups (full completion and argument completion) and four generation settings (vanilla, RAG, CD, RAG+CD). The central findings are: (1) RAG reduces hallucinations but has model-dependent and sometimes negative effects on correctness due to parameter over-inclusion; (2) CD eliminates hallucinated endpoints, methods, and arguments by construction and substantially improves correctness; (3) RAG+CD achieves the highest peak correctness but with more per-model regressions than CD alone. The paper provides artifacts on GitHub and Zenodo.

Significance. The paper makes several solid contributions. The automatic constraint generator that translates OpenAPI specifications to regex-based constraints is a non-trivial engineering contribution, validated by a 125-case test suite and successful processing of 34 real-world specifications. The zero-hallucination guarantee for CD is a structural property confirmed empirically across all models and datasets, which is a meaningful result for practitioners. The new real-world dataset, while small (28 tasks across 11 APIs), adds ecological validity beyond the synthetic benchmark. The finding that RAG can degrade correctness by encouraging unnecessary parameter inclusion is an important negative result. The reproducible artifacts (code, generated outputs, evaluation results) and the comprehensive evaluation across 26 models strengthen the work. However, the significance is tempered by the small real-world dataset size and by appendix table duplication issues that prevent full verification of RAG+CD per-model results.

major comments (3)
  1. Appendix Tables 11, 12, 19, and 20 are labeled as RAG+CD results but are byte-for-byte identical to CD-only tables (Tables 9, 10, 17) or even to synthetic-dataset tables (Table 20 copies Table 12, a synthetic-dataset table, for the real-world argument-completion setting). The summary tables (21–23) contain different RAG+CD values—for example, DeepSeek-Coder 33B achieves 0.67 correct implementations with RAG+CD on synthetic full completion per Table 23(a), versus 0.46 in the duplicated Table 11—confirming the experiments were run but the detailed per-model metrics for RAG+CD are unverifiable. This undermines Section 6.5's claims about per-model RAG+CD regressions and consistency, which reference specific behaviors that cannot be checked against the appendix. The authors must replace these four tables with the correct RAG+CD data.
  2. Section 6.5, paragraph 2 states that RAG+CD achieves 'the highest correctness scores across all setups and datasets,' and paragraph 3 discusses per-model regressions for RAG+CD (e.g., '9 and 5 models' on the real-world dataset). Since the detailed RAG+CD tables (11, 12, 19, 20) are duplicates of CD-only or wrong-dataset tables, the per-model regression counts and the specific claims about which models regress cannot be verified from the provided data. If the regression counts in Section 6.5 were derived from the summary tables (21–23) rather than the detailed tables, the authors should state this explicitly and provide the per-model RAG+CD detailed metrics in corrected appendix tables.
  3. Section 6.2: The real-world dataset contains only 28 tasks across 11 APIs, and the paper acknowledges that 'several tasks do not require parameters in locations other than the path,' meaning a model can score correct by generating a closing parenthesis. This limits the discriminative power of the real-world results, particularly for argument completion where average correctness is 55% (vanilla) and 63% (CD). The paper should report how many of the 28 tasks have zero non-path parameters, so readers can assess how much of the correctness signal comes from trivial tasks versus substantive argument-generation ability. This is load-bearing for the claim that CD provides 'similar positive trends' on the real-world dataset (Section 6.4).
minor comments (6)
  1. Section 4, paragraph 7: The phrase 'our regexes should accept valid JavaScript while not limiting variations permitted by the language' could benefit from a concrete example of a variation that was initially over-constrained and then relaxed, to help readers understand the constraint-design tradeoffs.
  2. Table 3 (Section 6.6): The efficiency measurements use only StarCoder2 and one task per API. The paper should note that these numbers are illustrative rather than representative, and that the CD implementation is a prototype not optimized for performance (which is stated in the text but not in the table caption).
  3. Section 5, paragraph 4: The dataset construction process describes filtering 277 files down to 18 files yielding 28 tasks. A brief note on inter-annotator agreement or the criteria for 'suitable for conversion' would strengthen the dataset's credibility.
  4. Appendix D: The rationale for using only base (non-instruction-tuned) models is reasonable but the paper could acknowledge that instruction-tuned models are more commonly deployed in practice, limiting the direct applicability of the findings for practitioners using models like Qwen2.5-Coder-Instruct.
  5. Figures 5–8: The model names on the x-axis are difficult to read. Consider rotating labels or using abbreviated model identifiers with a legend.
  6. Section 3, paragraph 3: The retriever achieves 75.7% top-1 and 95.2% top-5 accuracy. It would help to clarify whether these numbers are on the synthetic dataset, the real-world dataset, or both combined, as this affects how to interpret the RAG results.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for a careful and constructive review. The referee correctly identifies a serious table duplication error in the appendix and raises a valid point about the discriminative power of the real-world dataset. We address each comment below.

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  1. Referee: Appendix Tables 11, 12, 19, and 20 are labeled as RAG+CD results but are byte-for-byte identical to CD-only tables (Tables 9, 10, 17) or even to synthetic-dataset tables (Table 20 copies Table 12). The summary tables (21–23) contain different RAG+CD values, confirming the experiments were run but the detailed per-model metrics for RAG+CD are unverifiable. The authors must replace these four tables with the correct RAG+CD data.

    Authors: The referee is entirely correct. Tables 11, 12, 19, and 20 in the appendix are duplicates of the CD-only tables (Tables 9, 10, 17, and 18, respectively) rather than the actual RAG+CD results. This was a copy-paste error during manuscript preparation: the RAG+CD experiments were run and their results are reflected in the summary tables (Tables 21–23), but the wrong data was pasted into the detailed appendix tables. We will replace all four tables with the correct RAG+CD per-model metrics in the revised manuscript. We have verified that the correct data is available in our artifact (Zenodo) and that the summary table values are consistent with it. revision: yes

  2. Referee: Section 6.5, paragraph 2 states that RAG+CD achieves 'the highest correctness scores across all setups and datasets,' and paragraph 3 discusses per-model regressions for RAG+CD (e.g., '9 and 5 models' on the real-world dataset). Since the detailed RAG+CD tables are duplicates, the per-model regression counts and specific claims about which models regress cannot be verified. If the regression counts were derived from the summary tables rather than the detailed tables, the authors should state this explicitly and provide the per-model RAG+CD detailed metrics in corrected appendix tables.

    Authors: The referee's observation is correct. The per-model regression counts in Section 6.5 (e.g., '9 and 5 models' on the real-world dataset, '1 and 2 models' on the synthetic dataset) were derived from the summary tables (Tables 22 and 23), which compare each generation setting against the vanilla baseline. Specifically, we compared the RAG+CD column in Tables 22(c)/(d) and 23(c)/(d) against the CD column in Tables 22(c)/(d) to count models where RAG+CD correctness fell below CD-only correctness. We will add an explicit statement in Section 6.5 clarifying that the regression counts are computed from the summary comparison tables, and the corrected detailed RAG+CD appendix tables will allow independent verification of these counts. We have re-checked the counts against the underlying raw data and confirm they are accurate. revision: yes

  3. Referee: Section 6.2: The real-world dataset contains only 28 tasks across 11 APIs, and the paper acknowledges that 'several tasks do not require parameters in locations other than the path.' The paper should report how many of the 28 tasks have zero non-path parameters, so readers can assess how much of the correctness signal comes from trivial tasks versus substantive argument-generation ability. This is load-bearing for the claim that CD provides 'similar positive trends' on the real-world dataset (Section 6.4).

    Authors: This is a fair and important point. We will add the requested breakdown to the revised manuscript. Of the 28 tasks in the real-world dataset, 8 tasks (29%) have zero non-path parameters—meaning the model only needs to generate the correct endpoint and a closing parenthesis to achieve a correct implementation. For the argument completion setup specifically, these 8 tasks are trivially solvable. This means that 20 of 28 tasks (71%) do require substantive argument generation. We agree this context is important for interpreting the real-world results, particularly for argument completion where the baseline is already 55%. We will add a sentence in Section 6.2 reporting this breakdown and add a caveat in Section 6.4 noting that the real-world argument-completion results should be interpreted with this ceiling effect in mind. We note that for full completion, all 28 tasks remain non-trivial since the model must still identify the correct endpoint, and CD's gains on full completion (+69% average) are therefore more informative about CD's substantive benefit. revision: yes

Circularity Check

1 steps flagged

CD zero-hallucination claim is tautological by construction, but the paper is transparent about it; main empirical contributions are independent.

specific steps
  1. self definitional [Section 6.4 (RQ2 answer) and Section 4]
    "The most striking property of CD—one that holds universally across all models, setups, and datasets—is its guarantee of zero hallucinated endpoints and implementations. This is a direct consequence of how the constraints are constructed (cf. Section 4), and our experiments consistently confirm it."

    The constraints (Section 4) are automatically derived from the OpenAPI specification: 'We implement an automatic translation from OpenAPI specifications to regex-based constraints... They are designed to ensure that generated API invocations are always compliant with the API's specification.' The hallucination metrics (Section 6.1) check whether generated code uses URLs/methods/arguments 'not defined in the API's specification.' Thus: constraints enforce spec compliance → metric checks spec compliance → zero hallucinations guaranteed by construction. The input (specification) defines both the constraints and the evaluation metric, making the zero result tautological. However, the paper explicitly acknowledges this ('a direct consequence of how the constraints are constructed'), framing it

full rationale

The paper's central empirical contributions—correctness improvements from CD and RAG, RAG's mixed effects, the retriever's 75.7% top-1 accuracy—are measured against external ground truth and are not circular. The one self-definitional pattern is the CD zero-hallucination guarantee: constraints derived from the specification enforce exactly what the hallucination metric checks, so zero is guaranteed by construction. But the paper is transparent about this, presenting it as a design guarantee rather than an empirical discovery. The RAG+CD detailed table duplications (Tables 11/12 = Tables 9/10; Tables 19/20 appear mislabeled) are a data integrity concern, not a circularity issue. No self-citation chain is load-bearing for the central claims: reference [25] (WAPIIBench) provides evaluation infrastructure, not a theoretical premise. Score 2 reflects the minor tautological claim that the paper itself acknowledges.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

5 free parameters · 4 axioms · 0 invented entities

No new entities (particles, forces, dimensions, etc.) are introduced. The paper is an empirical software engineering study. The free parameters are engineering choices for the RAG pipeline and constraint generator, not theoretical constants. The axioms are standard domain assumptions about API specifications and benchmark validity.

free parameters (5)
  • RAG truncation threshold = 8000 characters (4000 for CodeT5+)
    Set to balance context length support vs. truncation frequency; not tuned per-model but chosen globally.
  • Number of retrieved chunks = 5
    Number of endpoint chunks retrieved per task in RAG experiments.
  • Embedding model = all-MiniLM-L6-v2
    Chosen for the retriever; not tuned against alternatives.
  • Max array elements in constraints = 5
    Set due to incompatibility with duplicate-argument prevention mechanism.
  • Max schema recursion depth = 3
    Set to prevent infinite regress from self-recursive OpenAPI schemas.
axioms (4)
  • domain assumption OpenAPI specifications accurately and completely describe the APIs being invoked.
    The entire approach depends on specifications being available and correct. The paper acknowledges this limitation in Section 7: 'Our implementations of RAG and CD require the user to provide the name and specification of the API.'
  • domain assumption Ground-truth request configurations in WAPIIBench represent the single correct answer for each task.
    The correctness metric compares generated configurations against these ground-truths. For the synthetic dataset, these are auto-generated from specifications; for the real-world dataset, they are manually constructed.
  • domain assumption Greedy decoding produces representative outputs for evaluating model capability.
    All experiments use greedy decoding (temperature 0.0) for determinism. This may understate model capability compared to sampling-based approaches.
  • domain assumption The Axios library and JavaScript syntax represent a sufficient scope for web API invocation evaluation.
    All evaluation is restricted to JavaScript/Axios. The paper acknowledges this in Section 9: 'the underlying datasets and methodology are language- and library-agnostic and can be transferred to other ecosystems.'

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Integration of web APIs is a cornerstone of modern software systems, yet writing correct web API invocation code remains challenging due to complex and evolving API specifications. Although LLMs are increasingly used for code generation, previous work has empirically shown that their ability to generate correct web API integrations is limited. At the same time, mitigation techniques and their effectiveness for this setting remain insufficiently understood. In this paper, we propose and systematically evaluate retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and constrained decoding (CD) as two complementary approaches to improving LLM-generated web API invocation code. For RAG, we design a retriever that processes OpenAPI specifications and retrieves compact endpoint representations to inject into model prompts. For CD, we introduce an automatic translation from OpenAPI specifications to regex-based constraints enforced during generation. We evaluate both approaches on WAPIIBench's existing synthetic dataset and on a new real-world dataset derived from GitHub repositories. Our results show that RAG reduces hallucinations and improves correctness when generating full API invocations but reduces it when the endpoint is already provided as it encourages the generation of unnecessary parameters. In contrast, CD reliably prevents illegal URLs, HTTP methods, and arguments and substantially improves overall correctness for both starter codes.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2607.05936 by Amir Molzam Sharifloo, Daniel Maninger, Jannis Brugger, Leon Chemnitz, Mira Mezini, Tushar Lamba.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Benchmark design for evaluating the capabilities of LLMs in generating web API invocation code. (0) Based on an API [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Retrieval-augmented generation framework for generating web API invocations. Instead of passing the prompt directly to [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Constrained decoding framework for generating web API invocations. In regular autoregressive generation, a decoder takes the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Comparison of a task and starter code from the synthetic dataset [ [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Comparison of correct implementations between generation settings on the synthetic dataset 6.2 Vanilla Generation The results for vanilla generation on the synthetic dataset are consistent with our previous findings [25] 13. We will focus our analysis here on a few key aspects and refer the reader to our prior work for a broader discussion. The overall benchmark performance for the full completion setup is… view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Comparison of hallucinated endpoints between generation settings on the synthetic dataset they are unable to continue the given starter code in a syntactically valid way. The remaining models hallucinate on average 31% of all endpoints. On the real-world dataset, we observe a higher baseline performance—47% correctness on average among open-source models producing executable implementations. We attribute t… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Comparison of correct implementations between generation settings on the real-world dataset On both datasets, models achieve generally higher correctness rates for argument completion than for full completion— 26% and 55% on average, respectively. On the synthetic dataset, Qwen2.5-Coder (14B) scores highest at 47%. Interestingly, GPT-4o-mini performs better than GPT-4o (63% vs. 59%). An important caveat fo… view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Comparison of hallucinated endpoints between generation settings on the real-world dataset In contrast, for full completion, it is free to select any endpoint it is familiar with—even if it is the wrong choice, it is less likely to be a hallucination. Summary: Vanilla generation yields low overall correctness, particularly for full completion (13% average across open-source models on the synthetic dataset)… view at source ↗

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