Accurate Legal Reasoning at Scale: Neuro-Symbolic Offloading and Structural Auditability for Robust Legal Adjudication
arXiv cs.CL / 5/5/2026
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- The paper introduces “Amortized Intelligence,” a neuro-symbolic method that translates legal text into a typed graph intermediate form (DACL) using an LLM once, rather than relying on repeated probabilistic reasoning at inference time.
- Legal adjudication is performed via deterministic graph execution, producing a visually auditable trace aimed at meeting the strict transparency and auditability requirements of legal decision-making.
- Experiments compare the DACL-based agent against runtime large reasoning model baselines (including GPT-5.2 and Gemini 3 Pro), reporting near-perfect consistency and reduced failures associated with the “reasoning cliff.”
- The approach claims substantial efficiency gains, cutting compute costs by over 90% in high-volume legal workflows while maintaining robust, consistent outputs.
- Overall, the work targets production-readiness for legal AI systems by combining structured representation, deterministic execution, and traceability to reduce reasoning errors and inference expenses.
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