Can LLMs Time Travel? Enhancing Temporal Consistency in Legal Agentic Search through Reinforcement Learning
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Researchers introduced LegalSearch-R1, an RL-trained legal agent designed to reduce temporal bias in legal LLMs.
It combines temporally indexed data, local statute retrieval, and online search to match laws and precedents to the correct amendment era.
The system improves temporal consistency and legal reasoning, helping avoid answers based on outdated statutes or cases.
On 13 legal tasks, LegalSearch-R1 outperforms several baselines and shows strong gains on legal benchmarks.