In this paper, we introduce SaulLM-7B, a large language model (LLM) tailored for the legal domain. With 7 billion parameters, SaulLM-7B is the first LLM designed explicitly for legal text comprehension and generation. Leveraging the Mistral 7B architecture as its foundation, SaulLM-7B is trained on an English legal corpus of over 30 billion tokens. SaulLM-7B exhibits state-of-the-art proficiency in understanding and processing legal documents. Additionally, we present a novel instructional fine-tuning method that leverages legal datasets to further enhance SaulLM-7B's performance in legal tasks. SaulLM-7B is released under the MIT License.
@article{arxiv.2403.03883,
title = {SaulLM-7B: A pioneering Large Language Model for Law},
author = {Pierre Colombo and Telmo Pessoa Pires and Malik Boudiaf and Dominic Culver and Rui Melo and Caio Corro and Andre F. T. Martins and Fabrizio Esposito and Vera Lúcia Raposo and Sofia Morgado and Michael Desa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.03883},
year = {2024}
}