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Main Authors: Xu, Wenhao, Arodi, Akshatha, Nie, Jian-Yun, Tchango, Arsene Fansi
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07803
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author Xu, Wenhao
Arodi, Akshatha
Nie, Jian-Yun
Tchango, Arsene Fansi
author_facet Xu, Wenhao
Arodi, Akshatha
Nie, Jian-Yun
Tchango, Arsene Fansi
contents Modern slavery affects millions of people worldwide, and regulatory frameworks such as Modern Slavery Acts now require companies to publish detailed disclosures. However, these statements are often vague and inconsistent, making manual review time-consuming and difficult to scale. While NLP offers a promising path forward, high-stakes compliance tasks require more than accurate classification: they demand transparent, rule-aligned outputs that legal experts can verify. Existing applications of large language models (LLMs) often reduce complex regulatory assessments to binary decisions, lacking the necessary structure for robust legal scrutiny. We argue that compliance verification is fundamentally a rule-matching problem: it requires evaluating whether textual statements adhere to well-defined regulatory rules. To this end, we propose a novel framework that harnesses AI for rule-level compliance verification while preserving expert oversight. At its core is the Compliance Alignment Judge (CA-Judge), which evaluates model-generated justifications based on their fidelity to statutory requirements. Using this feedback, we train the Compliance Alignment LLM (CALLM), a model that produces rule-consistent, human-verifiable outputs. CALLM improves predictive performance and generates outputs that are both transparent and legally grounded, offering a more verifiable and actionable solution for real-world compliance analysis.
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spellingShingle Judging by the Rules: Compliance-Aligned Framework for Modern Slavery Statement Monitoring
Xu, Wenhao
Arodi, Akshatha
Nie, Jian-Yun
Tchango, Arsene Fansi
Computers and Society
Artificial Intelligence
Modern slavery affects millions of people worldwide, and regulatory frameworks such as Modern Slavery Acts now require companies to publish detailed disclosures. However, these statements are often vague and inconsistent, making manual review time-consuming and difficult to scale. While NLP offers a promising path forward, high-stakes compliance tasks require more than accurate classification: they demand transparent, rule-aligned outputs that legal experts can verify. Existing applications of large language models (LLMs) often reduce complex regulatory assessments to binary decisions, lacking the necessary structure for robust legal scrutiny. We argue that compliance verification is fundamentally a rule-matching problem: it requires evaluating whether textual statements adhere to well-defined regulatory rules. To this end, we propose a novel framework that harnesses AI for rule-level compliance verification while preserving expert oversight. At its core is the Compliance Alignment Judge (CA-Judge), which evaluates model-generated justifications based on their fidelity to statutory requirements. Using this feedback, we train the Compliance Alignment LLM (CALLM), a model that produces rule-consistent, human-verifiable outputs. CALLM improves predictive performance and generates outputs that are both transparent and legally grounded, offering a more verifiable and actionable solution for real-world compliance analysis.
title Judging by the Rules: Compliance-Aligned Framework for Modern Slavery Statement Monitoring
topic Computers and Society
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07803