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Nepali Legal Expertise through Generative and Extractive Pre-trained Transformers (NepLEGiT)

Ranjit Raut·Tishya Dhakal·Aaryan Shakya·Bhabuk Thapa·Prasiddha Koirala·Bal Krishna Bal
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The complexity of legal language and limited accessibility to legal information pose significant challenges to justice delivery in Nepal. Traditional legal services remain inaccessible to many citizens due to language barriers, information fragmentation, and a critical shortage of legal expertise, particularly in rural areas. We present NepLEGiT (Nepali Legal Expertise through Generative and Extractive Pre-trained Transformers), a specialized small language model (SLM) designed to democratize legal knowledge and enhance legal-service delivery in Nepal. We pre-train a decoder-based GPT-2 SLM from scratch on a curated corpus of ~4 million tokens of Nepali legal text, covering constitutional law, civil and criminal codes, and administrative regulations. The model comprises ~30 million parameters in a 6-layer, 6-head, 384-dimensional transformer trained with warmup cosine-decay scheduling, gradient accumulation, and mixed-precision arithmetic. On a held-out validation split, NepLEGiT attains a cross-entropy loss of 0.5684, a perplexity of 1.8, and a next-token prediction accuracy of 82.9%. We further evaluate continual masked-language-model pre-training of mBERT and MuRIL on the same corpus; mBERT achieves a perplexity of 2.35 (eval loss 0.8565), outperforming MuRIL (perplexity 6.07, eval loss 1.8026), providing a strong encoder baseline complementary to NepLEGiT's generative orientation.

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Ranjit Raut, Tishya Dhakal, Aaryan Shakya, Bhabuk Thapa, Prasiddha Koirala, Bal Krishna Bal. 2026-08-08. Nepali Legal Expertise through Generative and Extractive Pre-trained Transformers (NepLEGiT). https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.16010

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