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New compact embedding model targets legal domain retrieval

Researchers have developed GreenLeaf Law Embed Tiny, a compact 0.6 billion parameter embedding model specifically designed for legal domain retrieval. This model achieves competitive performance, scoring 75.11% on the Massive Legal Embedding Benchmark (MLEB) and 64.38% on MTEB(Law, v1), outperforming other models under 1 billion parameters. The model's success is attributed to a two-stage training process involving knowledge distillation from a larger model, domain-specific fine-tuning with extensive query-passage data, and an efficient architecture supporting various quantization levels for deployment in resource-limited settings. AI

IMPACT This compact model could enable more efficient and accessible AI-powered legal research tools, especially in environments with limited computational resources.

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Surya Saka ·

    GreenLeaf Law Embed Tiny: A Compact Embedding Model for Legal Domain Retrieval

    arXiv:2608.24936v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present GreenLeaf Law Embed Tiny, a 0.6B parameter embedding model for legal domain retrieval. GreenLeaf-Tiny achieves 75.11% on the Massive Legal Embedding Benchmark (MLEB) and 64.38% on MTEB(Law, v1),demonstrating competitive…