arXiv:2603.19306cs.IRcs.AI2026-03被引 1

用多智能体协作模拟法庭合议,实现可验证的法律判决预测。

VERDICT: Verifiable Evolving Reasoning with Directive-Informed Collegial Teams for Legal Judgment Prediction

  • 设计多角色智能体协同工作,按起草-验证-修改流程生成可追溯推理链。
  • 在CAIL2018和CJO2025数据集上均达当前最优性能,且时间外推能力更强。
  • 适合法律AI研究者与司法智能化开发者参考,支持持续学习与可解释性需求。

法律判决预测(LJP)旨在从案件事实中预测适用法条、指控及量刑结果。除准确率外,LJP还需具备内在可解释性与法律依据的推理过程,以协调成文法与判例标准。然而现有方法多为静态一次性预测,缺乏可验证的推理流程支持,也难以适应法律实践的演变。本文提出VERDICT,一种自优化的协作式多智能体框架,模拟虚拟合议庭。该框架分配专用智能体承担事实结构化、法律检索、意见起草与监督验证等角色,通过可追踪的“草拟-验证-修订”工作流,结合显式的通过/拒绝反馈,生成可验证的推理轨迹与修改理由。为捕捉演化中的判例经验,引入基于微指令范式的混合法律记忆(HJM),将有效多智能体验证路径持续提炼为更新的微指令,实现跨案件的持续学习。我们在CAIL2018和新构建的CJO2025数据集上进行评估,采用严格的时间未来分割策略检验时序泛化能力。VERDICT在CAIL2018上达到最优表现,并在CJO2025上展现出强泛化能力。为促进复现与进一步研究,代码与数据集已公开于https://anonymous.4open.science/r/ARR-4437。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Legal Judgment Prediction (LJP) predicts applicable law articles, charges, and penalty terms from case facts. Beyond accuracy, LJP calls for intrinsically interpretable and legally grounded reasoning that can reconcile statutory rules with precedent-informed standards. However, existing methods often behave as static, one-shot predictors, providing limited procedural support for verifiable reasoning and little capability to adapt as jurisprudential practice evolves. We propose VERDICT, a self-refining collaborative multi-agent framework that simulates a virtual collegial panel. VERDICT assigns specialized agents to complementary roles (e.g., fact structuring, legal retrieval, opinion drafting, and supervisory verification) and coordinates them in a traceable draft--verify--revise workflow with explicit Pass/Reject feedback, producing verifiable reasoning traces and revision rationales. To capture evolving case experience, we further introduce a Hybrid Jurisprudential Memory (HJM) grounded in the Micro-Directive Paradigm, which stores precedent standards and continually distills validated multi-agent verification trajectories into updated Micro-Directives for continual learning across cases. We evaluate VERDICT on CAIL2018 and a newly constructed CJO2025 dataset with a strict future time-split for temporal generalization. VERDICT achieves state-of-the-art performance on CAIL2018 and demonstrates strong generalization on CJO2025. To facilitate reproducibility and further research, we release our code and the dataset at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/ARR-4437.

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