ViLegalLM: Language Models for Vietnamese Legal Text (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: **ViLegalLM** is the first suite of Vietnamese pretrained language models for legal text understanding and generation.
Approach: They propose a suite of Vietnamese pretrained language models for legal text understanding and generation.
Outcome: The proposed models outperform instruction-tuned adaptation on four main Vietnamese legal downstream tasks.

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