Hsien-Jyh Liao

Knowing the Form, Not the Function: Automatically Auditing Answer--Authority Decoupling in Legal Benchmarks

Legal benchmarks typically score final answers even when models also state legal authority. We test whether answer correctness can serve as a proxy for authority grounding. Under ordinary reasoning prompts that did not request statutory citations, four LLMs spontaneously produced authority markers across 238 Taiwan bar...