LexIssue - Legal Issue Classification Tier-3 (Knowledge-Base RAG): leaderboard

Metric: Weighted F1 (%; legal issue classification at Tier-3, the full hierarchical category path, counted only for aligned issues; predicted issues are aligned to the expert reference issues by a two-stage Qwen-3.5-27B judge (semantic retrieval, then rubric-based equivalence verification); mean case-level weighted F1 over the 430 cases; retrieval-augmented setting: the top 5 entries of the authors' 441-entry legal issue knowledge base for the case's cause of action, reranked by Qwen3-Reranker-8B, are added to the prompt). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around September 2028. 8 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScore
1Gemini 3 Flash33.9
2DeepSeek V4 Flash29.5
3GPT-5.224.3
4Qwen 3 8B13.1

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