Deploy LexAI v3.4

.streamlit/config.toml

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+[theme]
+base="dark"
+primaryColor="#3b82f6"
+backgroundColor="#0f172a"
+secondaryBackgroundColor="#1e293b"
+textColor="#f1f5f9"
+font="sans serif"

README.md

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 ---
-title: Lexai
-emoji: 🚀
-colorFrom: red
-colorTo: red
-sdk: docker
-app_port: 8501
-tags:
-- streamlit
+title: LexAI — Indian Court Judgment AI
+emoji: ⚖️
+colorFrom: blue
+colorTo: purple
+sdk: streamlit
+sdk_version: 1.32.0
+app_file: app.py
 pinned: false
-short_description: Streamlit template space
 license: mit
+short_description: Semantic search + legal gap detection for Indian court judgments
 ---
 
-# Welcome to Streamlit!
+# ⚖️ LexAI — Indian Court Judgment AI
 
-Edit `/src/streamlit_app.py` to customize this app to your heart's desire. :heart:
+Semantic legal research powered by **LegalBERT + FAISS**.  
+Find similar past Indian court judgments, understand why they match, and detect verdict inconsistencies.
 
-If you have any questions, checkout our [documentation](https://docs.streamlit.io) and [community
-forums](https://discuss.streamlit.io).
+- **5,007** Indian court judgments indexed  
+- **~270ms** search latency (FAISS direct retrieval)  
+- **MRR@5: 0.5269** · **NDCG@5: 0.5746**  
+- Zero LLM inference — fully deterministic explanations
+
+> ⚠️ First startup may take 2–3 minutes while data files are downloaded from HuggingFace Datasets.

app.py

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+"""LexAI v3.4 — Streamlit Dashboard.
+
+STRICTLY display-only. All ML logic lives in src/search_pipeline.py.
+"""
+import streamlit as st
+import plotly.express as px
+
+import pandas as pd
+import json, os, hashlib, logging, time, numpy as np
+
+# Must be first Streamlit call
+st.set_page_config(
+    page_title="LexAI - Legal Judgment Analyzer",
+    page_icon="\u2696\uFE0F",
+    layout="wide",
+    initial_sidebar_state="expanded"
+)
+
+# ── HuggingFace data bootstrap (runs once on cold start) ─────────────────────
+# Downloads cases.json, faiss.index, embeddings.npy from HF Hub if missing.
+# Safe to call every startup — skips download if files already exist.
+try:
+    from download_data import download_if_missing
+    _data_ready = download_if_missing(verbose=True)
+    if not _data_ready:
+        st.error(
+            "⚠️ Some data files could not be downloaded from HuggingFace. "
+            "Search will not work until all files are available. "
+            "Check the app logs for details."
+        )
+except Exception as _dl_err:
+    st.warning(f"Data download check skipped: {_dl_err}")
+
+# Initialize feedback store in session_state
+if "feedback" not in st.session_state:
+    st.session_state["feedback"] = {}
+    # structure: { "query_hash|case_id": "relevant" | "not_relevant" }
+
+# ── Dark theme CSS ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+with open("assets/styles.css", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+    st.markdown(f"<style>{f.read()}</style>", unsafe_allow_html=True)
+
+
+
+@st.cache_data
+def get_metrics():
+    with open("data/processed/eval_metrics.json", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+        return json.load(f)
+
+@st.cache_data
+def get_cluster_data():
+    with open("data/processed/cases.json", encoding="utf-8") as f: cases = json.load(f)
+    with open("data/processed/cluster_topics.json", encoding="utf-8") as f: topics = json.load(f)
+    labels = np.load("data/processed/cluster_labels.npy")
+    coords = np.load("data/processed/coords_2d.npy")
+    return {"cases": cases, "labels": labels, "coords": coords, "topics": topics}
+
+@st.cache_data
+def get_gaps():
+    with open("data/processed/gaps.json", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+        return json.load(f)
+
+
+# ── Legal Gap Explanation Engine (v3.3) ───────────────────────────────
+def generate_gap_explanation(gap: dict, cases: list, labels) -> dict:
+    """
+    Generate a deterministic explanation for why a cluster
+    has verdict inconsistency. No LLM. Pure rule-based logic.
+    """
+    from collections import Counter
+
+    cluster_id = gap["cluster_id"]
+
+    # Get all cases in this cluster
+    cluster_cases = [
+        c for c, lbl in zip(cases, labels)
+        if int(lbl) == int(cluster_id)
+    ]
+
+    convicted  = [c for c in cluster_cases if c.get("verdict") == "convicted"]
+    acquitted  = [c for c in cluster_cases if c.get("verdict") == "acquitted"]
+    bail_granted = [c for c in cluster_cases if c.get("verdict") == "bail_granted"]
+    bail_rejected = [c for c in cluster_cases if c.get("verdict") == "bail_rejected"]
+
+    if not cluster_cases:
+        return {
+            "summary": "Insufficient data for this cluster.",
+            "key_differences": [],
+            "legal_insight": "No cases available for analysis."
+        }
+
+    # Evidence comparison
+    def get_evidence_set(case_list):
+        evidence = []
+        for c in case_list:
+            evidence.extend(c.get("evidence_types", []))
+        return Counter(evidence)
+
+    conv_evidence = get_evidence_set(convicted)
+    acqu_evidence = get_evidence_set(acquitted)
+
+    # IPC section comparison
+    def get_ipc_set(case_list):
+        sections = []
+        for c in case_list:
+            sections.extend(c.get("ipc_sections", []))
+        return Counter(sections)
+
+    conv_ipc = get_ipc_set(convicted)
+    acqu_ipc = get_ipc_set(acquitted)
+
+    # Court comparison
+    conv_courts = Counter(c.get("court", "unknown") for c in convicted)
+    acqu_courts = Counter(c.get("court", "unknown") for c in acquitted)
+
+    # Build key differences
+    key_differences = []
+
+    # Evidence differences
+    evidence_in_convicted_not_acquitted = [
+        e for e in conv_evidence
+        if conv_evidence[e] > 0 and acqu_evidence.get(e, 0) == 0
+    ]
+    evidence_in_acquitted_not_convicted = [
+        e for e in acqu_evidence
+        if acqu_evidence[e] > 0 and conv_evidence.get(e, 0) == 0
+    ]
+
+    if evidence_in_convicted_not_acquitted:
+        key_differences.append(
+            f"Convicted cases more often had: "
+            f"{', '.join(evidence_in_convicted_not_acquitted)}"
+        )
+    if evidence_in_acquitted_not_convicted:
+        key_differences.append(
+            f"Acquitted cases more often had: "
+            f"{', '.join(evidence_in_acquitted_not_convicted)}"
+        )
+
+    # Court level differences
+    top_conv_court  = conv_courts.most_common(1)[0][0] if conv_courts else "unknown"
+    top_acqu_court  = acqu_courts.most_common(1)[0][0] if acqu_courts else "unknown"
+    if top_conv_court != top_acqu_court and top_conv_court != "unknown":
+        key_differences.append(
+            f"Most convictions from {top_conv_court}, "
+            f"most acquittals from {top_acqu_court}"
+        )
+
+    # IPC differences
+    common_ipc = gap.get("common_ipc_sections", [])
+    if common_ipc:
+        key_differences.append(
+            f"Shared IPC sections: {', '.join(common_ipc[:3])}"
+        )
+
+    # If no differences found, add generic insight
+    if not key_differences:
+        key_differences.append(
+            "Cases share similar charges but differ in "
+            "factual circumstances or evidence quality"
+        )
+
+    # Generate summary
+    total     = gap["total_cases"]
+    conv_cnt  = gap["convicted_count"]
+    acqu_cnt  = gap["acquitted_count"]
+    score     = gap["inconsistency_score"]
+    dom_type  = gap.get("dominant_case_type", "unknown")
+
+    summary = (
+        f"In this {dom_type} law cluster, {total} similar cases "
+        f"resulted in {conv_cnt} convictions and {acqu_cnt} acquittals "
+        f"({score:.0%} inconsistency). "
+        f"Cases share the same charges but produced opposite outcomes."
+    )
+
+    # Legal insight
+    if score >= 0.45:
+        legal_insight = (
+            "This cluster shows high verdict inconsistency \u2014 "
+            "nearly equal split between conviction and acquittal "
+            "on similar charges. This may indicate judicial discretion "
+            "based on evidence quality, witness credibility, or "
+            "differing interpretations of the same IPC sections."
+        )
+    elif score >= 0.30:
+        legal_insight = (
+            "Moderate inconsistency detected. Similar cases are "
+            "leaning towards one outcome but a significant minority "
+            "received the opposite verdict. Evidence strength and "
+            "court level may be contributing factors."
+        )
+    else:
+        legal_insight = (
+            "Low-moderate inconsistency. The majority of similar "
+            "cases share a verdict pattern, but exceptions exist "
+            "suggesting fact-specific reasoning by courts."
+        )
+
+    return {
+        "summary":         summary,
+        "key_differences": key_differences,
+        "legal_insight":   legal_insight
+    }
+
+
+def get_cluster_summary(cluster_id: int, cases: list, labels) -> dict:
+    """
+    Compute a readable summary for a single cluster.
+    Used in cluster map legend and Legal Gaps section.
+    """
+    from collections import Counter
+
+    cluster_cases = [
+        c for c, lbl in zip(cases, labels)
+        if int(lbl) == int(cluster_id)
+    ]
+
+    if not cluster_cases:
+        return {
+            "total": 0,
+            "dominant_ipc": [],
+            "case_type": "unknown",
+            "verdict_split": {},
+            "label": f"Cluster {cluster_id}"
+        }
+
+    # IPC sections
+    all_ipc = []
+    for c in cluster_cases:
+        all_ipc.extend(c.get("ipc_sections", []))
+    ipc_counter = Counter(all_ipc)
+    dominant_ipc = [ipc for ipc, _ in ipc_counter.most_common(3)]
+
+    # Case type
+    types = Counter(c.get("case_type", "unknown") for c in cluster_cases)
+    dominant_type = types.most_common(1)[0][0]
+
+    # Verdict split
+    verdicts = Counter(c.get("verdict", "unknown") for c in cluster_cases)
+    total = len(cluster_cases)
+    verdict_split = {
+        v: round(count / total * 100)
+        for v, count in verdicts.most_common(4)
+    }
+
+    # Build a human-readable label
+    if dominant_ipc:
+        label = f"IPC {', '.join(dominant_ipc[:2])} \u2014 {dominant_type.title()}"
+    else:
+        label = f"{dominant_type.title()} cases"
+
+    return {
+        "total":        total,
+        "dominant_ipc": dominant_ipc,
+        "case_type":    dominant_type,
+        "verdict_split": verdict_split,
+        "label":        label
+    }
+
+
+@st.cache_data
+def compute_all_gap_explanations(_cases, _labels, _gaps_json):
+    """
+    Pre-compute explanations for ALL gaps at once.
+    Cached — only recomputes when data changes.
+    """
+    import json as _json
+    gaps_list = _json.loads(_gaps_json)
+    return {
+        gap["cluster_id"]: generate_gap_explanation(gap, _cases, _labels)
+        for gap in gaps_list
+    }
+
+
+@st.cache_data
+def compute_all_cluster_summaries(_cases, _labels):
+    """
+    Pre-compute summaries for ALL clusters at once.
+    Cached — only recomputes when data changes.
+    """
+    if _labels is None or len(_cases) == 0:
+        return {}
+    summaries = {}
+    for cid in set(int(l) for l in _labels if int(l) != -1):
+        summaries[cid] = get_cluster_summary(cid, _cases, _labels)
+    return summaries
+
+
+# ── Persistent Feedback Storage (v3.3) ────────────────────���───────────
+def save_feedback_to_disk(feedback_dict: dict):
+    """
+    Write feedback to JSON with file locking.
+    Safe for Streamlit concurrent reruns.
+    """
+    feedback_path = "data/feedback.json"
+    lock_path     = "data/feedback.lock"
+
+    # Simple file lock — wait up to 2 seconds
+    waited = 0
+    while os.path.exists(lock_path) and waited < 2:
+        time.sleep(0.1)
+        waited += 0.1
+
+    try:
+        # Acquire lock
+        with open(lock_path, "w", encoding="utf-8") as lf:
+            lf.write("locked")
+
+        # Load existing, merge, save
+        existing = {}
+        if os.path.exists(feedback_path):
+            try:
+                with open(feedback_path, encoding="utf-8") as f:
+                    existing = json.load(f)
+            except Exception:
+                existing = {}
+
+        existing.update(feedback_dict)
+
+        os.makedirs("data", exist_ok=True)
+        with open(feedback_path, "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+            json.dump(existing, f, indent=2)
+    except Exception:
+        pass  # feedback persistence must never crash the app
+    finally:
+        # Always release lock
+        if os.path.exists(lock_path):
+            try:
+                os.remove(lock_path)
+            except Exception:
+                pass
+
+
+# ── Query Logger (v3.3) ───────────────────────────────────────────────
+_query_logger = None
+
+
+def get_query_logger():
+    global _query_logger
+    if _query_logger is None:
+        os.makedirs("logs", exist_ok=True)
+        handler = logging.FileHandler("logs/queries.log", encoding="utf-8")
+        handler.setLevel(logging.INFO)
+        handler.setFormatter(
+            logging.Formatter(
+                "%(asctime)s | %(message)s",
+                datefmt="%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"
+            )
+        )
+        _query_logger = logging.getLogger("lexai_queries")
+        _query_logger.setLevel(logging.INFO)
+        _query_logger.addHandler(handler)
+    return _query_logger
+
+
+def render_header(cases):
+    st.markdown(f"""
+<div class="lexai-header">
+    <h1>⚖️ LexAI v3.4</h1>
+    <p>
+        <span class="tag">Open Source</span>
+        <span class="tag">LegalBERT</span>
+        <span class="tag">FAISS</span>
+        Indian Court Judgment Similarity Engine & Legal Gap Finder
+        &nbsp;·&nbsp; {len(cases):,} cases indexed
+    </p>
+</div>
+""", unsafe_allow_html=True)
+
+
+def render_metrics(metrics, cases, labels):
+    c1, c2, c3, c4 = st.columns(4)
+    with c1:
+        st.markdown(f"""
+        <div class="metric-card">
+            <div class="value">{len(cases):,}</div>
+            <div class="label">Cases Indexed</div>
+        </div>""", unsafe_allow_html=True)
+
+    with c2:
+        n_cl = int(len(set(labels))-1) if labels is not None else 0
+        st.markdown(f"""
+        <div class="metric-card">
+            <div class="value">{n_cl}</div>
+            <div class="label">Clusters</div>
+        </div>""", unsafe_allow_html=True)
+
+    with c3:
+        sil = metrics.get("silhouette_score", 0)
+        sil_col = "#86efac" if sil >= 0.5 else "#fde68a" if sil >= 0.2 else "#fca5a5"
+        st.markdown(f"""
+        <div class="metric-card">
+            <div class="value" style="color:{sil_col}">{sil:.3f}</div>
+            <div class="label">Silhouette</div>
+        </div>""", unsafe_allow_html=True)
+
+    with c4:
+        algo = metrics.get("winner_algorithm", "HDBSCAN").upper()
+        st.markdown(f"""
+        <div class="metric-card">
+            <div class="value" style="font-size:20px;padding-top:8px">{algo}</div>
+            <div class="label">Algorithm</div>
+        </div>""", unsafe_allow_html=True)
+
+    st.markdown("<br>", unsafe_allow_html=True)
+
+
+@st.cache_resource
+def get_pipeline():
+    from src.search_pipeline import SearchPipeline
+    return SearchPipeline()
+
+
+def render_search():
+    # Section header
+    st.markdown("""
+    <p class="section-header">Search Similar Judgments</p>
+    <p class="section-sub">Describe your case — LexAI finds the most similar
+    past judgments and explains why they match.</p>
+    """, unsafe_allow_html=True)
+
+    # Query examples as clickable pills (informational)
+    st.markdown("""
+    <div style="margin-bottom:12px">
+    <span style="font-size:12px;color:#64748b">Try: </span>
+    <span class="query-pill">IPC 302 murder with eyewitness</span>
+    <span class="query-pill">Bail application IPC 420 fraud</span>
+    <span class="query-pill">Appeal against acquittal</span>
+    </div>
+    """, unsafe_allow_html=True)
+
+    query = st.text_area(
+        "Enter legal query or case description:",
+        placeholder="e.g., bail application under IPC 302 murder where accused has no prior record",
+        height=100,
+        key="search_query"
+    )
+
+    # FAISS direct retrieval — reranker disabled (evaluated, no improvement)
+    use_reranker = False
+    st.caption("🔍 Using FAISS direct retrieval · MRR@5: 0.5269 · ~270ms")
+
+    if st.button("Search", type="primary", width="stretch"):
+        pipeline = get_pipeline()
+        ok, msg = pipeline.health_check()
+        if not ok:
+            st.warning(msg)
+            return
+
+        # Loading states
+        progress_bar = st.progress(0, text="Validating query...")
+        progress_bar.progress(25, text="Embedding query with LegalBERT...")
+        response = pipeline.search(query, top_k=5)
+        progress_bar.progress(75, text="Ranking results...")
+        progress_bar.progress(100, text="Building explanations...")
+        time.sleep(0.3)
+        progress_bar.empty()
+
+        if not response.success:
+            st.warning(response.error)
+            return
+
+        st.success(
+            f"Found {len(response.results)} candidates. "
+            f"Latency: {response.latency_ms}ms"
+        )
+
+        # Query logging
+        try:
+            get_query_logger().info(
+                f"query={query[:100]!r} | "
+                f"results={len(response.results)} | "
+                f"latency={response.latency_ms}ms | "
+                f"ipc={response.query_case.get('ipc_sections', [])} | "
+                f"case_type={response.query_case.get('case_type', 'unknown')}"
+            )
+        except Exception:
+            pass  # logging must never crash the app
+
+        # Query understanding display
+        if response.query_case:
+            qc = response.query_case
+            ipc_text  = ", ".join(qc["ipc_sections"]) if qc["ipc_sections"] else "none detected"
+            ev_text   = ", ".join(qc["evidence_types"]) if qc["evidence_types"] else "none detected"
+            type_text = qc["case_type"].title()
+
+            st.markdown(
+                f"**Query understood:** "
+                f"IPC {ipc_text} &nbsp;|&nbsp; "
+                f"{type_text} case &nbsp;|&nbsp; "
+                f"Evidence: {ev_text}",
+            )
+            st.divider()
+
+        def get_case_display_info(case: dict) -> dict:
+            """
+            Extract display-ready information from a case dict.
+            Handles both HuggingFace and Indian Kanoon cases.
+            Returns: title, court, date, tid, ik_url
+            """
+            import json as _json
+        
+            # Try to get metadata
+            meta = {}
+            try:
+                meta_raw = case.get("meta", "{}")
+                if isinstance(meta_raw, str):
+                    meta = _json.loads(meta_raw)
+                elif isinstance(meta_raw, dict):
+                    meta = meta_raw
+            except Exception:
+                meta = {}
+        
+            # Case title — from meta title field
+            title = (
+                meta.get("title", "")
+                or meta.get("case_name", "")
+                or ""
+            ).strip()
+        
+            # Fallback title from text
+            if not title or len(title) < 5:
+                text = case.get("text", "")[:200]
+                # Try to find "vs" pattern in first 200 chars
+                if " vs " in text.lower() or " v. " in text.lower():
+                    first_line = text.split("\n")[0].strip()
+                    if len(first_line) < 120:
+                        title = first_line
+                if not title:
+                    title = f"Case {case.get('id', 'Unknown')[:12]}"
+        
+            # Court
+            court = (
+                meta.get("court", "")
+                or case.get("court", "")
+                or "Unknown Court"
+            ).strip()
+        
+            # Date
+            date = (
+                meta.get("publishdate", "")
+                or meta.get("date", "")
+                or case.get("date", "")
+                or ""
+            ).strip()
+        
+            # Indian Kanoon link
+            tid = str(meta.get("tid", "")).strip()
+            ik_url = f"https://indiankanoon.org/doc/{tid}/" if tid else ""
+        
+            return {
+                "title":  title[:100],
+                "court":  court,
+                "date":   date,
+                "tid":    tid,
+                "ik_url": ik_url,
+            }
+
+        VERDICT_CSS = {
+            "convicted":         "badge-convicted",
+            "acquitted":         "badge-acquitted",
+            "bail_granted":      "badge-bail_granted",
+            "bail_rejected":     "badge-bail_rejected",
+            "appeal_allowed":    "badge-appeal_allowed",
+            "appeal_dismissed":  "badge-appeal_dismissed",
+            "sentence_modified": "badge-sentence_modified",
+            "unknown":           "badge-unknown",
+        }
+
+        VERDICT_LABELS = {
+            "convicted":         "Convicted",
+            "acquitted":         "Acquitted",
+            "bail_granted":      "Bail Granted",
+            "bail_rejected":     "Bail Rejected",
+            "appeal_allowed":    "Appeal Allowed",
+            "appeal_dismissed":  "Appeal Dismissed",
+            "sentence_modified": "Sentence Modified",
+            "unknown":           "Unknown",
+        }
+
+        for result in response.results:
+            case    = result.case
+            exp     = result.explanation
+            verdict = case.get("verdict", "unknown")
+            css_cls = VERDICT_CSS.get(verdict, "badge-unknown")
+            v_label = VERDICT_LABELS.get(verdict, "Unknown")
+            info    = get_case_display_info(case)
+
+            # Build IK link HTML
+            ik_link_html = ""
+            if info["ik_url"]:
+                ik_link_html = f'<a href="{info["ik_url"]}" target="_blank" class="ik-link">🔗 View on Indian Kanoon</a>'
+
+            # Card
+            st.markdown(f"""
+            <div class="result-card">
+                <div style="display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:flex-start;gap:16px">
+                    <div style="flex:1">
+                        <span class="badge {css_cls}">{v_label}</span>
+                        <div class="result-title">#{result.rank} — {info['title']}</div>
+                        <div class="result-meta">
+                            {info['court']}
+                            {f" &nbsp;·&nbsp; {info['date']}" if info['date'] else ""}
+                        </div>{ik_link_html}
+                    </div>
+                    <div style="text-align:right;flex-shrink:0">
+                        <span class="score-pill">Score: {result.score:.3f}</span>
+                    </div>
+                </div>
+            </div>
+            """, unsafe_allow_html=True)
+
+            # Matching factors
+            factors = []
+            if exp.get("shared_ipc"):
+                factors.append(f"**IPC:** {', '.join(exp['shared_ipc'])}")
+            if exp.get("shared_evidence"):
+                factors.append(f"**Evidence:** {', '.join(exp['shared_evidence'])}")
+            if exp.get("shared_case_type"):
+                factors.append(f"**Type:** {case.get('case_type','').title()}")
+            if factors:
+                st.markdown(" &nbsp;·&nbsp; ".join(factors))
+
+            # Explanation expander
+            with st.expander("⚖️ Why this result?", expanded=False):
+                col_a, col_b = st.columns(2)
+                with col_a:
+                    st.markdown("**Similarity**")
+                    st.info(exp.get("similarity_reason", "—"))
+                    st.markdown("**Differences**")
+                    st.warning(exp.get("key_differences", "—"))
+                with col_b:
+                    st.markdown("**Verdict Analysis**")
+                    va = exp.get("verdict_analysis", "—")
+                    if "divergence" in va.lower():
+                        st.error(va)
+                    elif "alignment" in va.lower():
+                        st.success(va)
+                    else:
+                        st.info(va)
+                excerpt = case.get("text", "")[:350]
+                if excerpt:
+                    st.markdown("**Excerpt**")
+                    st.caption(f'"{excerpt}..."')
+
+            # Feedback buttons
+            import hashlib
+            fb_key = f"{hashlib.md5(query.encode()).hexdigest()[:6]}|{case.get('id','')}"
+            current_fb = st.session_state.get("feedback", {}).get(fb_key)
+            fc1, fc2, fc3 = st.columns([1, 1, 6])
+            with fc1:
+                if st.button("👍", key=f"up_{fb_key}", help="Relevant"):
+                    if "feedback" not in st.session_state:
+                        st.session_state["feedback"] = {}
+                    st.session_state["feedback"][fb_key] = "relevant"
+                    save_feedback_to_disk(st.session_state["feedback"])
+                    st.rerun()
+            with fc2:
+                if st.button("👎", key=f"dn_{fb_key}", help="Not relevant"):
+                    if "feedback" not in st.session_state:
+                        st.session_state["feedback"] = {}
+                    st.session_state["feedback"][fb_key] = "not_relevant"
+                    save_feedback_to_disk(st.session_state["feedback"])
+                    st.rerun()
+            with fc3:
+                if current_fb == "relevant":
+                    st.caption("✓ Marked relevant")
+                elif current_fb == "not_relevant":
+                    st.caption("✗ Marked not relevant")
+
+            st.markdown("---")
+
+
+def render_cluster_map():
+    st.markdown("### Judgment Cluster Map")
+
+    with st.spinner("Loading cluster data..."):
+        try:
+            data = get_cluster_data()
+        except Exception as e:
+            st.error(f"Could not load cluster data: {e}")
+            return
+
+    cases = data["cases"]
+    labels = data["labels"]
+    coords = data["coords"]
+    topics = data["topics"]
+
+    # Build cluster summaries for tooltips (cached)
+    cluster_summaries = compute_all_cluster_summaries(cases, labels)
+
+    # Build DataFrame with rich hover columns
+    df = pd.DataFrame({
+        "x": [c[0] for c in coords],
+        "y": [c[1] for c in coords],
+        "cluster": [str(l) for l in labels],
+        "cluster_label": [
+            cluster_summaries.get(int(l), {}).get("label", f"Cluster {l}")
+            if int(l) != -1 else "Noise"
+            for l in labels
+        ],
+        "case_type": [c.get("case_type", "unknown") for c in cases],
+        "verdict": [c.get("verdict", "unknown") for c in cases],
+        "court": [c.get("court", "unknown") for c in cases],
+        "date": [c.get("date", "unknown") for c in cases],
+    })
+
+    fig = px.scatter(
+        df, x="x", y="y",
+        color="cluster",
+        hover_data={
+            "x": False,
+            "y": False,
+            "cluster": False,
+            "cluster_label": True,
+            "verdict": True,
+            "case_type": True,
+            "court": True,
+            "date": True,
+        },
+        labels={"cluster_label": "Cluster"},
+        height=500,
+        title="UMAP Projection of Judgment Embeddings",
+        color_discrete_sequence=px.colors.qualitative.Set2,
+        template="plotly_dark",
+    )
+    fig.update_traces(marker=dict(size=6, opacity=0.7))
+    fig.update_layout(
+        plot_bgcolor="rgba(0,0,0,0)",
+        paper_bgcolor="rgba(0,0,0,0)",
+        font=dict(family="Inter"),
+    )
+    st.plotly_chart(fig, width="stretch")
+
+    # Cluster summary table
+    st.markdown("**Cluster Summary**")
+    summary_rows = []
+    for cid in sorted(cluster_summaries.keys()):
+        s = cluster_summaries[cid]
+        top_verdict = max(s["verdict_split"], key=s["verdict_split"].get) \
+                      if s["verdict_split"] else "unknown"
+        summary_rows.append({
+            "Cluster":           cid,
+            "Cases":             s["total"],
+            "Legal Category":    s["label"],
+            "Dominant Verdict":  top_verdict,
+            "Verdict Split":     " | ".join(
+                f"{v}: {p}%" for v, p in
+                list(s["verdict_split"].items())[:3]
+            ),
+        })
+
+    if summary_rows:
+        st.dataframe(
+            pd.DataFrame(summary_rows),
+            width="stretch",
+            hide_index=True
+        )
+
+
+def render_verdict_distribution():
+    st.markdown("### Verdict Distribution")
+    try:
+        data = get_cluster_data()
+    except Exception as e:
+        st.error(f"Data not found: {e}")
+        return
+        
+    cases = data["cases"]
+
+    verdicts = {}
+    for c in cases:
+        v = c.get("verdict", "unknown")
+        verdicts[v] = verdicts.get(v, 0) + 1
+
+    df = pd.DataFrame({
+        "Verdict": list(verdicts.keys()),
+        "Count": list(verdicts.values()),
+    })
+    df["Verdict"] = df["Verdict"].str.replace("_", " ").str.title()
+
+    fig = px.bar(
+        df, x="Verdict", y="Count", color="Verdict",
+        color_discrete_sequence=["#e94560", "#0f3460", "#00c875", "#533483"],
+        template="plotly_dark",
+    )
+    fig.update_layout(
+        plot_bgcolor="rgba(0,0,0,0)",
+        paper_bgcolor="rgba(0,0,0,0)",
+        font=dict(family="Inter"),
+        showlegend=False, height=350,
+    )
+    st.plotly_chart(fig, width="stretch")
+    st.caption(
+        "Dataset note: Bail applications dominate because Indian Kanoon "
+        "returns a high volume of bail matter judgments. "
+        "Bail Rejected + Bail Granted cases reflect real Indian court "
+        "docket composition where bail matters vastly outnumber trials."
+    )
+
+
+def render_gaps():
+    st.markdown("## Legal Gaps & Inconsistencies")
+
+    try:
+        gaps = get_gaps()
+    except Exception as e:
+        st.error(f"Gaps data not found: {e}")
+        return
+
+    if not gaps:
+        st.info(
+            "No inconsistent clusters detected. "
+            "This improves as more cases are added and verdict "
+            "coverage increases above 40%."
+        )
+        return
+
+    st.caption(
+        f"{len(gaps)} clusters show opposing verdicts for similar cases. "
+        "Cases in the same cluster share IPC sections and case type "
+        "but received opposite verdicts."
+    )
+
+    # Load cases and labels for explanation engine
+    try:
+        data = get_cluster_data()
+        cases = data["cases"]
+        labels_for_gaps = data["labels"]
+    except Exception:
+        cases = []
+        labels_for_gaps = None
+
+    # Pre-compute ALL explanations once (cached) — not inside the render loop
+    if labels_for_gaps is not None and cases:
+        all_explanations = compute_all_gap_explanations(
+            cases, labels_for_gaps, json.dumps(gaps)
+        )
+    else:
+        all_explanations = {}
+
+    for gap in gaps:
+        score    = gap["inconsistency_score"]
+        card_cls = "gap-card" + (" moderate" if score < 0.45 else "") + \
+                   (" low" if score < 0.30 else "")
+        conv_cnt = gap.get("convicted_count", 0)
+        acqu_cnt = gap.get("acquitted_count", 0)
+        dom_type = gap.get("dominant_case_type", "general").title()
+        ipc_list = ", ".join(gap.get("common_ipc_sections", [])[:4]) or "—"
+
+        # Use actual verdict labels from gap data
+        convicted_count = gap.get("convicted_count", 0)
+        acquitted_count = gap.get("acquitted_count", 0)
+        bail_granted    = gap.get("bail_granted_count", 0)
+        bail_rejected   = gap.get("bail_rejected_count", 0)
+
+        # Show whichever pair has data
+        if convicted_count + acquitted_count > 0:
+            label_a = f"Convicted: {convicted_count}"
+            label_b = f"Acquitted: {acquitted_count}"
+        else:
+            label_a = f"Granted: {bail_granted}"
+            label_b = f"Rejected: {bail_rejected}"
+
+        # Get pre-computed explanation
+        explanation = all_explanations.get(gap["cluster_id"], {})
+        summary     = explanation.get("summary", "")
+        diffs       = explanation.get("key_differences", [])
+        insight     = explanation.get("legal_insight", "")
+
+        st.markdown(f"""
+        <div class="{card_cls}">
+            <div style="display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:center">
+                <div class="gap-card-title">
+                    Cluster {gap['cluster_id']}
+                    &nbsp;·&nbsp;
+                    {gap['total_cases']} cases
+                    &nbsp;·&nbsp;
+                    <span style="color:#f87171">{score:.0%} inconsistency</span>
+                </div>
+                <div>
+                    <span class="verdict-badge verdict-convicted"
+                          style="margin-right:6px">{label_a}</span>
+                    <span class="verdict-badge verdict-acquitted">
+                          {label_b}</span>
+                </div>
+            </div>
+            <div style="color:#94a3b8;font-size:13px;margin-top:8px">
+                {dom_type} · IPC {ipc_list}
+            </div>
+        </div>
+        """, unsafe_allow_html=True)
+
+        if summary:
+            st.write(summary)
+
+        for diff in diffs:
+            st.markdown(f"• {diff}")
+
+        if insight:
+            st.markdown(
+                f'<div class="gap-insight">⚖️ <strong>Legal Insight:</strong> {insight}</div>',
+                unsafe_allow_html=True
+            )
+
+        st.markdown("<br>", unsafe_allow_html=True)
+
+
+def render_eval_metrics():
+    st.markdown("### Retrieval Evaluation Metrics")
+    metrics_path = "data/processed/eval_metrics_retrieval.json"
+    if not os.path.exists(metrics_path):
+        st.info("Run `python -m src.eval_pipeline` to generate retrieval metrics.")
+        return
+
+    with open(metrics_path, encoding="utf-8") as f:
+        rmetrics = json.load(f)
+
+    # Interpretation helpers
+    def interpret_mrr(v):
+        if v >= 0.7: return "Strong \u2014 relevant case usually in top 2"
+        if v >= 0.5: return "Moderate \u2014 relevant case usually in top 3"
+        if v >= 0.3: return "Fair \u2014 relevant case usually in top 5"
+        return "Low \u2014 relevant case may not appear in top results"
+
+    def interpret_ndcg(v):
+        if v >= 0.7: return "Strong ranking quality"
+        if v >= 0.5: return "Fair ranking relevance"
+        if v >= 0.3: return "Moderate \u2014 some ranking noise"
+        return "Low \u2014 ranking needs improvement"
+
+    def interpret_p5(v):
+        if v >= 0.6: return "High \u2014 most results are relevant"
+        if v >= 0.4: return "Moderate \u2014 roughly half are relevant"
+        if v >= 0.2: return "Low \u2014 minority of results are relevant"
+        return "Very low \u2014 precision needs improvement"
+
+    fr = rmetrics.get("faiss_plus_reranker", rmetrics.get("faiss_only", {}))
+    mrr  = fr.get("MRR@5", 0)
+    p5   = fr.get("P@5", 0)
+    ndcg = fr.get("NDCG@5", 0)
+
+    m1, m2, m3 = st.columns(3)
+    m1.metric("MRR@5", f"{mrr:.4f}", help=interpret_mrr(mrr))
+    m1.caption(interpret_mrr(mrr))
+    m2.metric("P@5", f"{p5:.4f}", help=interpret_p5(p5))
+    m2.caption(interpret_p5(p5))
+    m3.metric("NDCG@5", f"{ndcg:.4f}", help=interpret_ndcg(ndcg))
+    m3.caption(interpret_ndcg(ndcg))
+
+    # Reranker experiment explanation
+    st.markdown("**Reranker Experiment**")
+    st.info(
+        "Two cross-encoder models were evaluated on 96 queries: \n\n"
+        "\u2022 **nli-deberta-v3-small** \u2192 NDCG delta: \u22120.10 (degraded quality) \n\n"
+        "\u2022 **ms-marco-MiniLM** \u2192 NDCG delta: 0.00 (no improvement) \n\n"
+        "**Conclusion:** LegalBERT bi-encoder already captures Indian legal "
+        "domain similarity well without a cross-encoder. Neither model improved "
+        "results without fine-tuning on labeled Indian law data. "
+        "The reranker is kept in the codebase for v4 fine-tuning. "
+        "FAISS direct retrieval is used in production at ~270ms latency."
+    )
+
+
+# ── Main App ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+def main():
+    try:
+        data = get_cluster_data()
+        cases = data.get("cases", [])
+        labels = data.get("labels", [])
+    except Exception:
+        cases = []
+        labels = None
+
+    render_header(cases)
+
+    # Sidebar
+    with st.sidebar:
+        st.markdown("## Navigation")
+        page = st.radio(
+            "Go to:",
+            ["Search", "Cluster Map", "Legal Gaps", "Analytics"],
+            label_visibility="collapsed"
+        )
+        st.markdown("---")
+        st.markdown("**LexAI v3.4**")
+        st.markdown("Built with LegalBERT + FAISS + DeBERTa")
+
+    # Load metrics for header
+    try:
+        metrics = get_metrics()
+        render_metrics(metrics, cases, labels)
+    except Exception as e:
+        metrics = {}
+        st.warning(
+            "Clustering metrics not available. "
+            "Run the Colab notebook and copy eval_metrics.json "
+            "to data/processed/."
+        )
+
+    st.markdown("---")
+
+    if page == "Search":
+        render_search()
+    elif page == "Cluster Map":
+        render_cluster_map()
+    elif page == "Legal Gaps":
+        render_gaps()
+    elif page == "Analytics":
+        if not metrics:
+            st.info(
+                "Clustering metrics not available. "
+                "Run the Colab notebook and copy eval_metrics.json "
+                "to data/processed/."
+            )
+        # Cluster quality label
+        sil_score = metrics.get("silhouette_score", 0)
+        if sil_score >= 0.5:
+            quality_label = "GOOD"
+            quality_color = "#22c55e"
+            quality_note  = "Strong cluster separation. Cases group meaningfully."
+        elif sil_score >= 0.2:
+            quality_label = "MODERATE"
+            quality_color = "#eab308"
+            quality_note  = "Some overlap between clusters. Acceptable for this dataset size."
+        else:
+            quality_label = "LOW"
+            quality_color = "#ef4444"
+            quality_note  = (
+                "Overlapping clusters \u2014 cases are semantically similar across groups. "
+                "This is expected with 500 cases. Improves significantly with 1,000+ cases."
+            )
+
+        col_sil, col_q = st.columns([1, 2])
+        with col_sil:
+            st.metric("Silhouette Score", f"{sil_score:.3f}")
+        with col_q:
+            st.markdown(
+                f"<span style='background:{quality_color};color:white;"
+                f"padding:3px 10px;border-radius:4px;font-weight:bold'>"
+                f"Cluster Quality: {quality_label}</span>",
+                unsafe_allow_html=True
+            )
+            st.caption(quality_note)
+
+        st.divider()
+
+        col1, col2 = st.columns(2)
+        with col1:
+            render_verdict_distribution()
+        with col2:
+            render_eval_metrics()
+
+        # User feedback summary
+        st.divider()
+        st.markdown("### User Feedback Summary")
+        fb = st.session_state.get("feedback", {})
+        if not fb:
+            st.caption("No feedback collected yet. Search and mark results to see feedback stats.")
+        else:
+            relevant     = sum(1 for v in fb.values() if v == "relevant")
+            not_relevant = sum(1 for v in fb.values() if v == "not_relevant")
+            total_fb     = len(fb)
+            user_precision = relevant / total_fb if total_fb > 0 else 0
+
+            fb1, fb2, fb3 = st.columns(3)
+            fb1.metric("Total rated",     total_fb)
+            fb2.metric("Marked relevant", relevant)
+            fb3.metric("User Precision",  f"{user_precision:.0%}",
+                       help="% of rated results marked relevant by user")
+
+            # Evaluation loop — compare user feedback to offline metrics
+            try:
+                ret_metrics_path = "data/processed/eval_metrics_retrieval.json"
+                if os.path.exists(ret_metrics_path):
+                    with open(ret_metrics_path, encoding="utf-8") as f:
+                        ret_metrics_fb = json.load(f)
+                    offline_mrr = ret_metrics_fb.get(
+                        "faiss_plus_reranker",
+                        ret_metrics_fb.get("faiss_only", {})
+                    ).get("MRR@5", 0)
+                    if total_fb >= 5 and offline_mrr > 0:
+                        st.markdown("**Feedback vs Offline Metrics**")
+                        comp1, comp2 = st.columns(2)
+                        comp1.metric("User Precision (live)", f"{user_precision:.2f}")
+                        comp2.metric("MRR@5 (offline eval)", f"{offline_mrr:.4f}")
+                        if user_precision >= offline_mrr - 0.1:
+                            st.success(
+                                "User feedback aligns with offline evaluation. "
+                                "Retrieval quality is consistent in practice."
+                            )
+                        else:
+                            st.warning(
+                                "User precision is lower than offline MRR. "
+                                "This may indicate the eval oracle (shared IPC sections) "
+                                "overestimates real-world relevance. "
+                                "Collecting more labeled feedback would improve accuracy."
+                            )
+            except Exception:
+                pass
+
+            st.caption(
+                "Session feedback resets on page refresh. "
+                "Persistent feedback is saved to data/feedback.json."
+            )
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

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+/* Verdict badges */
+.badge {
+    display: inline-block;
+    padding: 4px 12px;
+    border-radius: 20px;
+    font-size: 11px;
+    font-weight: 600;
+    text-transform: uppercase;
+    letter-spacing: 0.5px;
+    margin-bottom: 8px;
+}
+.badge-convicted    { background:#7f1d1d; color:#fca5a5; border:1px solid #991b1b; }
+.badge-acquitted    { background:#14532d; color:#86efac; border:1px solid #166534; }
+.badge-bail_granted { background:#713f12; color:#fde68a; border:1px solid #92400e; }
+.badge-bail_rejected{ background:#7c2d12; color:#fdba74; border:1px solid #9a3412; }
+.badge-appeal_allowed { background:#1e3a5f; color:#93c5fd; border:1px solid #1e40af; }
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+.badge-unknown      { background:#1e293b; color:#64748b; border:1px solid #334155; }
+
+/* Gap cards */
+.gap-card {
+    background: #0f172a;
+    border-left: 4px solid #ef4444;
+    border-top: 1px solid #1e293b;
+    border-right: 1px solid #1e293b;
+    border-bottom: 1px solid #1e293b;
+    border-radius: 0 12px 12px 0;
+    padding: 20px 24px;
+    margin-bottom: 24px;
+}
+.gap-card.moderate { border-left-color: #f97316; }
+.gap-card.low      { border-left-color: #eab308; }
+.gap-title {
+    font-size: 15px;
+    font-weight: 600;
+    color: #f1f5f9;
+}
+.gap-insight {
+    background: rgba(30,58,95,0.5);
+    border: 1px solid #1e3a5f;
+    border-radius: 8px;
+    padding: 12px 16px;
+    font-size: 13px;
+    color: #93c5fd;
+    margin-top: 12px;
+    line-height: 1.7;
+}
+
+/* Quality badge */
+.quality-badge {
+    display: inline-block;
+    padding: 4px 14px;
+    border-radius: 20px;
+    font-size: 12px;
+    font-weight: 700;
+    text-transform: uppercase;
+    letter-spacing: 1px;
+}
+.quality-good   { background:#14532d; color:#86efac; border:1px solid #166534; }
+.quality-medium { background:#713f12; color:#fde68a; border:1px solid #92400e; }
+.quality-low    { background:#7f1d1d; color:#fca5a5; border:1px solid #991b1b; }
+
+/* Dividers */
+hr { border-color: #1e293b !important; margin: 28px 0 !important; }
+
+/* Hide Streamlit chrome */
+#MainMenu { visibility: hidden; }
+footer    { visibility: hidden; }
+
+/* Expander */
+.streamlit-expanderHeader {
+    background: #0f172a !important;
+    border-radius: 8px !important;
+    font-size: 13px !important;
+    font-weight: 500 !important;
+}
+
+/* Input */
+.stTextArea textarea {
+    background: #0f172a !important;
+    border: 1px solid #1e293b !important;
+    border-radius: 10px !important;
+    color: #f1f5f9 !important;
+    font-size: 15px !important;
+    line-height: 1.6 !important;
+    transition: border-color 0.2s !important;
+}
+.stTextArea textarea:focus {
+    border-color: #3b82f6 !important;
+    box-shadow: 0 0 0 3px rgba(59,130,246,0.1) !important;
+}
+
+/* Button */
+.stButton > button[kind="primary"] {
+    background: linear-gradient(135deg, #2563eb, #1d4ed8) !important;
+    color: white !important;
+    border: none !important;
+    border-radius: 10px !important;
+    font-weight: 600 !important;
+    font-size: 15px !important;
+    padding: 14px 24px !important;
+    width: 100% !important;
+    transition: all 0.2s !important;
+    box-shadow: 0 4px 15px rgba(37,99,235,0.3) !important;
+}
+.stButton > button[kind="primary"]:hover {
+    background: linear-gradient(135deg, #1d4ed8, #1e40af) !important;
+    box-shadow: 0 6px 20px rgba(37,99,235,0.4) !important;
+    transform: translateY(-1px) !important;
+}

config.py

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+import os
+from dotenv import load_dotenv
+load_dotenv()
+
+INDIAN_KANOON_API_KEY = os.getenv("INDIAN_KANOON_API_KEY", "")
+INDIAN_KANOON_BASE_URL = "https://api.indiankanoon.org"
+
+RAW_DIR = "data/raw"
+PROCESSED_DIR = "data/processed"
+DB_PATH = "data/judgments.db"
+CASES_JSON_PATH = "data/processed/cases.json"
+EMBEDDINGS_PATH = "data/processed/embeddings.npy"
+FAISS_INDEX_PATH = "data/processed/faiss.index"
+LABELS_PATH = "data/processed/cluster_labels.npy"
+TOPICS_PATH = "data/processed/cluster_topics.json"
+COORDS_PATH = "data/processed/coords_2d.npy"
+GAPS_PATH = "data/processed/gaps.json"
+METRICS_PATH = "data/processed/eval_metrics.json"
+RETRIEVAL_METRICS_PATH = "data/processed/eval_metrics_retrieval.json"  # NEW v3.2
+
+EMBEDDING_MODEL = "nlpaueb/legal-bert-base-uncased"
+SPACY_MODEL = "en_core_web_lg"
+
+# v3.1: nli-deberta instead of ms-marco
+# ms-marco trained on Bing web search clicks — wrong domain for law
+# nli-deberta trained on NLI entailment — maps to legal reasoning
+RERANKER_MODEL = "cross-encoder/ms-marco-MiniLM-L-6-v2"
+
+# v3.2 Production config: Disable reranker for latency improvements
+USE_RERANKER = False
+START_WITH_N_CASES = 5000
+UMAP_SUBSAMPLE_LIMIT = 2000
+MAX_TEXT_LENGTH = 512
+BATCH_SIZE = 32
+HDBSCAN_MIN_CLUSTER_SIZE = 10
+MIN_K = 5
+MAX_K = 20
+RANDOM_STATE = 42
+TOP_K_RETRIEVAL = 50
+TOP_K_RESULTS = 5
+
+# v3.1: query validation thresholds
+QUERY_MIN_CHARS = 20
+QUERY_MAX_CHARS = 5000
+QUERY_MIN_WORDS = 4
+
+# v3.2: retrieval evaluation settings
+EVAL_SAMPLE_SIZE = 100      # how many cases to use as eval queries
+EVAL_TOP_K = 5              # k for MRR@k, P@k, NDCG@k
+
+APP_TITLE = "LexAI — Court Judgment Analyzer"
+GDRIVE_OUTPUT_PATH = os.getenv(
+    "GDRIVE_OUTPUT_PATH",
+    "/content/drive/MyDrive/lexai_outputs"
+)

data/processed/cluster_topics.json

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+{
+  "0": "Cluster 0",
+  "1": "Cluster 1",
+  "2": "Cluster 2"
+}

data/processed/eval_metrics.json

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+{
+  "winner_algorithm": "hdbscan",
+  "n_clusters": 3,
+  "silhouette_score": 0.8344,
+  "davies_bouldin_score": 0.7362,
+  "kmeans_best_k": 5,
+  "kmeans_best_silhouette": 0.6138,
+  "hdbscan_n_clusters": 3,
+  "hdbscan_silhouette": 0.8344,
+  "total_cases": 5007
+}

data/processed/eval_metrics_retrieval.json

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+{
+  "evaluation_summary": {
+    "total_cases": 500,
+    "evaluable_cases": 476,
+    "queries_evaluated": 96,
+    "queries_skipped": 4,
+    "eval_k": 5,
+    "relevance_oracle": "shared_ipc_section_and_same_case_type"
+  },
+  "faiss_only": {
+    "MRR@5": 0.5269,
+    "P@5": 0.325,
+    "NDCG@5": 0.5746
+  },
+  "faiss_plus_reranker": {
+    "MRR@5": 0.5269,
+    "P@5": 0.325,
+    "NDCG@5": 0.5746
+  },
+  "reranker_improvement": {
+    "MRR_delta": 0.0,
+    "P5_delta": 0.0,
+    "NDCG_delta": 0.0
+  },
+  "latency": {
+    "avg_embed_ms": 126.2,
+    "avg_faiss_ms": 0.1,
+    "avg_rerank_ms": 680.5,
+    "avg_query_ms": 806.7,
+    "p95_query_ms": 908.7
+  },
+  "model_info": {
+    "embedding_model": "nlpaueb/legal-bert-base-uncased",
+    "reranker_model": "cross-encoder/ms-marco-MiniLM-L-6-v2",
+    "score_column": "entailment (index 2 of 3 NLI labels)"
+  }
+}

data/processed/gaps.json

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+[
+  {
+    "cluster_id": 0,
+    "total_cases": 2681,
+    "positive_outcome_count": 2049,
+    "negative_outcome_count": 574,
+    "convicted_count": 193,
+    "acquitted_count": 1268,
+    "bail_granted_count": 781,
+    "bail_rejected_count": 381,
+    "inconsistency_score": 0.214,
+    "common_ipc_sections": [
+      "302",
+      "34",
+      "313",
+      "120B",
+      "420"
+    ],
+    "dominant_case_type": "criminal",
+    "courts_involved": [
+      "Chhattisgarh High Court",
+      "High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh",
+      "Karnataka High Court, Bangalore",
+      "Madras High Court",
+      "Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court, Srinagar Bench"
+    ]
+  }
+]

download_data.py

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+"""
+LexAI — HuggingFace data downloader.
+
+Downloads large ML artefacts from HuggingFace Hub at startup.
+Files are cached locally — subsequent runs skip the download.
+
+Dataset repo: https://huggingface.co/datasets/Satyam810/lexai-data
+"""
+
+import os
+import sys
+import hashlib
+from pathlib import Path
+
+
+# ── Configuration ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+HF_DATASET_REPO = "Satyam810/lexai-data"   # ← your HF dataset repo name
+
+# Files to download: { local_path: filename_in_hf_repo }
+DATA_FILES = {
+    "data/processed/cases.json":         "cases.json",
+    "data/processed/faiss.index":        "faiss.index",
+    "data/processed/embeddings.npy":     "embeddings.npy",
+    "data/processed/cluster_labels.npy": "cluster_labels.npy",
+    "data/processed/coords_2d.npy":      "coords_2d.npy",
+}
+
+
+# ── Downloader ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+def download_if_missing(verbose: bool = True) -> bool:
+    """
+    Download missing data files from HuggingFace Hub.
+
+    Returns True if all files are present after download, False on error.
+    Call this at the TOP of app.py before any other imports that need the data.
+    """
+
+    missing = [
+        (local, hf_name)
+        for local, hf_name in DATA_FILES.items()
+        if not Path(local).exists()
+    ]
+
+    if not missing:
+        if verbose:
+            print("✅ All data files present — skipping download.")
+        return True
+
+    if verbose:
+        print(f"📥 Downloading {len(missing)} missing file(s) from HuggingFace...")
+        for local, _ in missing:
+            print(f"   • {local}")
+
+    try:
+        from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download
+    except ImportError:
+        print(
+            "❌ huggingface_hub not installed. "
+            "Add it to requirements.txt and re-deploy."
+        )
+        return False
+
+    # Ensure directories exist
+    for local, _ in missing:
+        Path(local).parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+
+    all_ok = True
+    for local, hf_name in missing:
+        try:
+            if verbose:
+                print(f"   ⬇️  Downloading {hf_name}...")
+
+            downloaded = hf_hub_download(
+                repo_id=HF_DATASET_REPO,
+                filename=hf_name,
+                repo_type="dataset",
+                local_dir="data/processed",
+                local_dir_use_symlinks=False,
+            )
+
+            # Verify file landed in the right place
+            if Path(downloaded).exists():
+                size_mb = Path(downloaded).stat().st_size / (1024 * 1024)
+                if verbose:
+                    print(f"   ✅ {hf_name} ({size_mb:.1f} MB)")
+            else:
+                print(f"   ❌ {hf_name} — download succeeded but file not found at {downloaded}")
+                all_ok = False
+
+        except Exception as e:
+            print(f"   ❌ Failed to download {hf_name}: {e}")
+            all_ok = False
+
+    if all_ok and verbose:
+        print("✅ All data files ready.")
+    elif not all_ok and verbose:
+        print(
+            "⚠️  Some files failed to download. "
+            "Check your HF_DATASET_REPO setting and that the dataset is public."
+        )
+
+    return all_ok
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    # Can be run standalone: python download_data.py
+    success = download_if_missing(verbose=True)
+    sys.exit(0 if success else 1)

packages.txt

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+# System packages required by Streamlit Community Cloud
+# These are installed via apt-get before pip install
+
+# Required for spaCy's en_core_web_lg model
+build-essential
+
+# Required for FAISS CPU compilation (if building from source)
+libopenblas-dev
+
+# Required for numpy/scipy
+libgfortran5

requirements.txt

@@ -1,3 +1,31 @@
-altair
-pandas
-streamlit
+# LexAI v3.4 — pinned dependency versions for reproducible deployment
+# Python 3.11 required
+
+# ── Core App ────────────────────────────────────────────────
+streamlit>=1.32.0,<2.0.0
+python-dotenv>=1.0.0
+huggingface_hub>=0.22.0
+
+# ── ML / Embeddings ─────────────────────────────────────────
+torch>=2.0.0
+sentence-transformers>=2.6.0
+faiss-cpu>=1.8.0
+
+# ── NLP ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+spacy>=3.7.0
+# Run after install: python -m spacy download en_core_web_lg
+
+# ── Data Processing ─────────────────────────────────────────
+pandas>=2.2.0
+numpy>=1.26.0
+scikit-learn>=1.4.0
+datasets>=2.18.0
+
+# ── Visualisation ───────────────────────────────────────────
+plotly>=5.20.0
+
+# ── Network ─────────────────────────────────────────────────
+requests>=2.31.0
+
+# ── Testing ─────────────────────────────────────────────────
+pytest>=8.0.0

src/__init__.py

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+# LexAI source package

src/embedder.py

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+"""Embedding engine — wraps SentenceTransformer for local inference."""
+import numpy as np
+from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
+from config import EMBEDDING_MODEL, MAX_TEXT_LENGTH
+
+_model = None
+
+
+def get_model():
+    global _model
+    if _model is None:
+        _model = SentenceTransformer(EMBEDDING_MODEL)
+    return _model
+
+
+def embed_texts(texts: list, batch_size: int = 32) -> np.ndarray:
+    """Encode a list of texts into embeddings."""
+    model = get_model()
+    truncated = [" ".join(t.split()[:MAX_TEXT_LENGTH]) for t in texts]
+    return model.encode(
+        truncated, batch_size=batch_size,
+        show_progress_bar=len(texts) > 50,
+        convert_to_numpy=True
+    )
+
+
+def embed_query(query: str) -> np.ndarray:
+    """Encode a single query string."""
+    model = get_model()
+    truncated = " ".join(query.split()[:MAX_TEXT_LENGTH])
+    vec = model.encode([truncated], convert_to_numpy=True).astype("float32")
+    import faiss
+    faiss.normalize_L2(vec)
+    return vec

src/eval_pipeline.py

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+"""
+Retrieval evaluation — self-supervised, no labeled data required.
+
+Relevance oracle: two cases are "relevant" if they share
+at least one IPC section AND the same case_type.
+
+Metrics:
+  MRR@5   Mean Reciprocal Rank at 5
+  P@5     Precision at 5
+  NDCG@5  Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain at 5
+
+Compares: FAISS-only vs FAISS + cross-encoder reranker.
+
+Output: data/processed/eval_metrics_retrieval.json
+Run:    python src/eval_pipeline.py
+"""
+
+import json, numpy as np, faiss, math, time, random
+from pathlib import Path
+from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer, CrossEncoder
+from config import (
+    CASES_JSON_PATH, EMBEDDINGS_PATH, FAISS_INDEX_PATH,
+    RETRIEVAL_METRICS_PATH, EMBEDDING_MODEL, RERANKER_MODEL,
+    TOP_K_RETRIEVAL, TOP_K_RESULTS, EVAL_SAMPLE_SIZE, EVAL_TOP_K,
+    MAX_TEXT_LENGTH
+)
+
+
+# ── Oracle ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+def is_relevant(query_case: dict, candidate_case: dict) -> bool:
+    """
+    Self-supervised relevance: shared IPC section + same case type.
+    Cases with no IPC sections are unevaluable by this oracle.
+    """
+    q_ipc  = set(query_case.get("ipc_sections", []))
+    c_ipc  = set(candidate_case.get("ipc_sections", []))
+    q_type = query_case.get("case_type", "")
+    c_type = candidate_case.get("case_type", "")
+    if not q_ipc or not c_ipc:
+        return False
+    return bool(q_ipc & c_ipc) and (q_type == c_type)
+
+
+# ── Standard IR metrics ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+def reciprocal_rank(relevant_flags: list) -> float:
+    for i, flag in enumerate(relevant_flags):
+        if flag:
+            return 1.0 / (i + 1)
+    return 0.0
+
+
+def precision_at_k(relevant_flags: list, k: int) -> float:
+    return sum(relevant_flags[:k]) / k if k > 0 else 0.0
+
+
+def ndcg_at_k(relevant_flags: list, k: int) -> float:
+    if k == 0:
+        return 0.0
+    dcg  = sum(flag / math.log2(i + 2) for i, flag in enumerate(relevant_flags[:k]))
+    idcg = sum(1.0 / math.log2(i + 2) for i in range(sum(relevant_flags[:k])))
+    return dcg / idcg if idcg > 0 else 0.0
+
+
+# ── Main eval ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+def run_retrieval_eval():
+    print("=" * 60)
+    print("LEXAI RETRIEVAL EVALUATION")
+    print("=" * 60)
+
+    # Load assets
+    print("\nLoading cases and index...")
+    with open(CASES_JSON_PATH, encoding="utf-8") as f:
+        cases = json.load(f)
+
+    embeddings = np.load(EMBEDDINGS_PATH).astype("float32")
+    index      = faiss.read_index(FAISS_INDEX_PATH)
+    embed_model = SentenceTransformer(EMBEDDING_MODEL)
+    rerank_model = CrossEncoder(RERANKER_MODEL, max_length=512)
+
+    print(f"  Cases: {len(cases)} | Embeddings: {embeddings.shape} | FAISS: {index.ntotal}")
+
+    # Select eval queries — only cases with IPC sections
+    evaluable = [
+        (i, c) for i, c in enumerate(cases)
+        if c.get("ipc_sections")
+    ]
+
+    if len(evaluable) < 10:
+        print(f"\n⚠️  Only {len(evaluable)} evaluable cases (need >= 10 with IPC sections).")
+        print("   Re-run nlp_pipeline.py to improve IPC extraction, then retry.")
+        return None
+
+    random.seed(42)
+    sample_size = min(EVAL_SAMPLE_SIZE, len(evaluable))
+    eval_sample = random.sample(evaluable, sample_size)
+    print(f"\nEval queries: {sample_size} (from {len(evaluable)} evaluable cases)")
+
+    # Evaluation loop
+    faiss_mrr, faiss_p5, faiss_ndcg     = [], [], []
+    rerank_mrr, rerank_p5, rerank_ndcg  = [], [], []
+    embed_latencies   = []
+    faiss_latencies   = []
+    rerank_latencies  = []
+    skipped = 0
+
+    import numpy as _np
+
+    for eval_idx, (case_idx, query_case) in enumerate(eval_sample):
+        if eval_idx % 20 == 0:
+            print(f"  [{eval_idx}/{sample_size}] evaluating...")
+
+        # Embed query
+        q_words = query_case["text"].split()[:MAX_TEXT_LENGTH]
+        t_embed = time.perf_counter()
+        q_emb   = embed_model.encode(
+            [" ".join(q_words)], convert_to_numpy=True
+        ).astype("float32")
+        embed_latencies.append((time.perf_counter() - t_embed) * 1000)
+
+        faiss.normalize_L2(q_emb)
+
+        # FAISS search
+        t_faiss = time.perf_counter()
+        scores_arr, idxs = index.search(q_emb, TOP_K_RETRIEVAL + 1)
+        faiss_latencies.append((time.perf_counter() - t_faiss) * 1000)
+
+        # Exclude query case itself
+        faiss_candidates = [
+            (cases[idx], float(sc))
+            for idx, sc in zip(idxs[0], scores_arr[0])
+            if idx != case_idx and 0 <= idx < len(cases)
+        ][:TOP_K_RETRIEVAL]
+
+        if not faiss_candidates:
+            skipped += 1
+            continue
+
+        # Check oracle: any relevant in full candidate set?
+        all_flags = [is_relevant(query_case, c) for c, _ in faiss_candidates]
+        if not any(all_flags):
+            skipped += 1
+            continue
+
+        # FAISS-only metrics
+        faiss_flags = [is_relevant(query_case, c) for c, _ in faiss_candidates[:EVAL_TOP_K]]
+        faiss_mrr.append(reciprocal_rank(faiss_flags))
+        faiss_p5.append(precision_at_k(faiss_flags, EVAL_TOP_K))
+        faiss_ndcg.append(ndcg_at_k(faiss_flags, EVAL_TOP_K))
+
+        # Reranking
+        pairs = [
+            [query_case["text"][:256], cand["text"][:400]]
+            for cand, _ in faiss_candidates
+        ]
+        t_rerank = time.perf_counter()
+        raw_scores = rerank_model.predict(pairs, apply_softmax=True, show_progress_bar=False)
+        rerank_latencies.append((time.perf_counter() - t_rerank) * 1000)
+
+        raw_scores = _np.array(raw_scores)
+        if raw_scores.ndim == 2 and raw_scores.shape[1] == 3:
+            scores = raw_scores[:, 2]   # entailment column
+        else:
+            scores = raw_scores.flatten()
+
+        reranked = sorted(
+            zip(faiss_candidates, scores.tolist()),
+            key=lambda x: x[1], reverse=True
+        )
+        rerank_top5 = [cand for (cand, _), _ in reranked[:EVAL_TOP_K]]
+        rerank_flags = [is_relevant(query_case, c) for c in rerank_top5]
+
+        rerank_mrr.append(reciprocal_rank(rerank_flags))
+        rerank_p5.append(precision_at_k(rerank_flags, EVAL_TOP_K))
+        rerank_ndcg.append(ndcg_at_k(rerank_flags, EVAL_TOP_K))
+
+    # Aggregate
+    evaluated = len(faiss_mrr)
+    if evaluated == 0:
+        print("\n⚠️  No queries evaluated. Check IPC section extraction.")
+        return None
+
+    def avg(lst): return round(sum(lst) / len(lst), 4) if lst else 0.0
+
+    all_latencies = [e + f + r for e, f, r in zip(embed_latencies, faiss_latencies, rerank_latencies)]
+
+    results = {
+        "evaluation_summary": {
+            "total_cases":       len(cases),
+            "evaluable_cases":   len(evaluable),
+            "queries_evaluated": evaluated,
+            "queries_skipped":   skipped,
+            "eval_k":            EVAL_TOP_K,
+            "relevance_oracle":  "shared_ipc_section_and_same_case_type",
+        },
+        "faiss_only": {
+            "MRR@5":  avg(faiss_mrr),
+            "P@5":    avg(faiss_p5),
+            "NDCG@5": avg(faiss_ndcg),
+        },
+        "faiss_plus_reranker": {
+            "MRR@5":  avg(rerank_mrr),
+            "P@5":    avg(rerank_p5),
+            "NDCG@5": avg(rerank_ndcg),
+        },
+        "reranker_improvement": {
+            "MRR_delta":  round(avg(rerank_mrr)  - avg(faiss_mrr),  4),
+            "P5_delta":   round(avg(rerank_p5)   - avg(faiss_p5),   4),
+            "NDCG_delta": round(avg(rerank_ndcg) - avg(faiss_ndcg), 4),
+        },
+        "latency": {
+            "avg_embed_ms":    round(avg(embed_latencies), 1),
+            "avg_faiss_ms":    round(avg(faiss_latencies), 1),
+            "avg_rerank_ms":   round(avg(rerank_latencies), 1),
+            "avg_query_ms":    round(avg(all_latencies), 1),
+            "p95_query_ms":    round(
+                sorted(all_latencies)[int(len(all_latencies) * 0.95)]
+                if all_latencies else 0, 1
+            ),
+        },
+        "model_info": {
+            "embedding_model": EMBEDDING_MODEL,
+            "reranker_model":  RERANKER_MODEL,
+            "score_column":    "entailment (index 2 of 3 NLI labels)",
+        },
+    }
+
+    # Save
+    Path(RETRIEVAL_METRICS_PATH).parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with open(RETRIEVAL_METRICS_PATH, "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+        json.dump(results, f, indent=2)
+
+    # Print report
+    fi  = results["faiss_only"]
+    re  = results["faiss_plus_reranker"]
+    dlt = results["reranker_improvement"]
+    lat = results["latency"]
+
+    print(f"\n{'='*60}")
+    print("RESULTS")
+    print(f"  Evaluated: {evaluated} queries | Skipped: {skipped}")
+    print(f"  {'Metric':<12}  {'FAISS only':>12}  {'+ Reranker':>12}  {'Delta':>10}")
+    print(f"  {'-'*52}")
+    for metric, f_key, r_key, d_key in [
+        ("MRR@5",  "MRR@5",  "MRR@5",  "MRR_delta"),
+        ("P@5",    "P@5",    "P@5",    "P5_delta"),
+        ("NDCG@5", "NDCG@5", "NDCG@5", "NDCG_delta"),
+    ]:
+        f_val = fi[f_key]; r_val = re[r_key]; d = dlt[d_key]
+        sign = "+" if d >= 0 else ""
+        print(f"  {metric:<12}  {f_val:>12.4f}  {r_val:>12.4f}  {sign}{d:>9.4f}")
+
+    print(f"\n  Latency breakdown:")
+    print(f"    Embed:   {lat['avg_embed_ms']}ms")
+    print(f"    FAISS:   {lat['avg_faiss_ms']}ms")
+    print(f"    Rerank:  {lat['avg_rerank_ms']}ms")
+    print(f"    Total:   {lat['avg_query_ms']}ms avg  /  {lat['p95_query_ms']}ms P95")
+
+    ndcg_delta = dlt["NDCG_delta"]
+    print(f"\n{'='*60}")
+    if ndcg_delta >= 0:
+        print(f"✅ Reranker improved NDCG by +{ndcg_delta:.4f}")
+        print("   Two-stage pipeline adds measurable value.")
+    else:
+        print(f"⚠️  Reranker NDCG delta = {ndcg_delta:.4f} (reranker degraded vs FAISS)")
+        print("   Documented as known limitation — NLI model not fine-tuned on Indian law.")
+        print("   FAISS bi-encoder alone performs well on this dataset.")
+        print("   Fine-tuning on labeled pairs would resolve this.")
+
+    print(f"\n*** RESUME / INTERVIEW NUMBERS ***")
+    print(f"  MRR@5  (reranker): {re['MRR@5']:.4f}")
+    print(f"  P@5    (reranker): {re['P@5']:.4f}")
+    print(f"  NDCG@5 (reranker): {re['NDCG@5']:.4f}")
+    print(f"  NDCG delta:        {ndcg_delta:+.4f}")
+    print(f"  Avg query latency: {lat['avg_query_ms']}ms")
+    print(f"{'='*60}")
+
+    return results
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    run_retrieval_eval()

src/explanation_engine.py

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+"""
+Explanation engine — deterministic, template-based structured diff.
+
+NO LLM dependency. No API calls. Always fast. Always consistent.
+
+Exported functions (both required by search_pipeline.py):
+  explain_similarity(query_case, retrieved_case, similarity_score) -> dict
+  explain_results(query_case, results) -> list[dict]
+"""
+
+
+def explain_similarity(
+    query_case: dict,
+    retrieved_case: dict,
+    similarity_score: float
+) -> dict:
+    """
+    Generate structured explanation comparing query to one retrieved case.
+
+    Args:
+        query_case:       NLP-processed dict for the user's query text
+        retrieved_case:   NLP-processed dict for a retrieved result
+        similarity_score: reranker relevance score (float)
+
+    Returns:
+        dict with 10 keys
+    """
+    # IPC comparison
+    q_ipc = set(query_case.get("ipc_sections", []))
+    r_ipc = set(retrieved_case.get("ipc_sections", []))
+    shared_ipc   = sorted(q_ipc & r_ipc)
+    q_only_ipc   = sorted(q_ipc - r_ipc)
+    r_only_ipc   = sorted(r_ipc - q_ipc)
+
+    # Evidence comparison
+    q_evidence = set(query_case.get("evidence_types", []))
+    r_evidence = set(retrieved_case.get("evidence_types", []))
+    shared_evidence = sorted(q_evidence & r_evidence)
+    q_only_evidence = sorted(q_evidence - r_evidence)
+    r_only_evidence = sorted(r_evidence - q_evidence)
+
+    # Case type
+    q_type = query_case.get("case_type", "unknown")
+    r_type = retrieved_case.get("case_type", "unknown")
+    shared_case_type = (q_type == r_type)
+
+    # Court and verdict
+    q_court   = query_case.get("court", "unknown")
+    r_court   = retrieved_case.get("court", "unknown")
+    q_verdict = query_case.get("verdict", "unknown")
+    r_verdict = retrieved_case.get("verdict", "unknown")
+
+    # ── Similarity reason ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
+    reasons = []
+    if shared_ipc:
+        reasons.append(f"both cite IPC {', '.join(shared_ipc)}")
+    if shared_case_type:
+        reasons.append(f"both are {q_type} cases")
+    if shared_evidence:
+        reasons.append(f"both involve {', '.join(shared_evidence)} evidence")
+    if not reasons:
+        reasons.append(
+            "high semantic similarity in legal language and factual context"
+        )
+    similarity_reason = "Similarity: " + "; ".join(reasons).capitalize() + "."
+
+    # ── Key differences ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+    diffs = []
+    if q_only_ipc:
+        diffs.append(f"your case cites IPC {', '.join(q_only_ipc)} (absent here)")
+    if r_only_ipc:
+        diffs.append(f"this case additionally cites IPC {', '.join(r_only_ipc)}")
+    if q_only_evidence:
+        diffs.append(
+            f"your case has {', '.join(q_only_evidence)} evidence (absent here)"
+        )
+    if r_only_evidence:
+        diffs.append(
+            f"this case has {', '.join(r_only_evidence)} evidence (absent in yours)"
+        )
+    if not shared_case_type:
+        diffs.append(
+            f"case type differs: yours is {q_type}, this is {r_type}"
+        )
+    if q_court != r_court and r_court != "unknown":
+        diffs.append(f"decided by {r_court}")
+    if not diffs:
+        diffs.append("no major structural differences detected")
+    key_differences = "Differences: " + "; ".join(diffs).capitalize() + "."
+
+    # ── Verdict analysis ───────────────────────────────────────────────────
+    if q_verdict == "unknown" or r_verdict == "unknown":
+        verdict_analysis = (
+            "Verdict comparison: unable to extract verdicts reliably "
+            "from one or both cases."
+        )
+    elif q_verdict == r_verdict:
+        verdict_analysis = (
+            f"Verdict alignment: both cases resulted in {r_verdict}."
+        )
+    else:
+        verdict_factors = []
+        if "forensic" in r_evidence and "forensic" not in q_evidence:
+            verdict_factors.append("this case had forensic evidence")
+        if "eyewitness" in r_evidence and "eyewitness" not in q_evidence:
+            verdict_factors.append("this case had eyewitness testimony")
+        if "confession" in r_evidence and "confession" not in q_evidence:
+            verdict_factors.append("this case included a confession")
+        if "forensic" in q_evidence and "forensic" not in r_evidence:
+            verdict_factors.append(
+                "your case has forensic evidence this one lacked"
+            )
+        if verdict_factors:
+            verdict_analysis = (
+                f"Verdict divergence: your case trends {q_verdict}, "
+                f"this case was {r_verdict}. "
+                f"Possible factor: {'; '.join(verdict_factors)}."
+            )
+        else:
+            verdict_analysis = (
+                f"Verdict divergence: your case trends {q_verdict}, "
+                f"this case was {r_verdict}. "
+                f"Similar charges led to opposite outcomes — review carefully."
+            )
+
+    return {
+        "similarity_score":  round(similarity_score, 3),
+        "similarity_reason": similarity_reason,
+        "key_differences":   key_differences,
+        "verdict_analysis":  verdict_analysis,
+        "shared_ipc":        shared_ipc,
+        "shared_evidence":   shared_evidence,
+        "shared_case_type":  shared_case_type,
+        "retrieved_verdict": r_verdict,
+        "retrieved_court":   r_court,
+        "retrieved_date":    retrieved_case.get("date", ""),
+    }
+
+
+def explain_results(query_case: dict, results: list) -> list:
+    """
+    Run explanation for all reranked results.
+
+    Args:
+        query_case: NLP-processed dict for the query
+        results:    list of (case_dict, score) tuples from reranker
+
+    Returns:
+        list of explanation dicts, one per result
+    """
+    return [
+        explain_similarity(query_case, case, score)
+        for case, score in results
+    ]

src/fetcher.py

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+import sqlite3, json, requests, time, logging
+from pathlib import Path
+from config import (
+    INDIAN_KANOON_API_KEY, INDIAN_KANOON_BASE_URL,
+    DB_PATH, START_WITH_N_CASES
+)
+
+logging.basicConfig(
+    level=logging.INFO,
+    format="%(asctime)s %(levelname)s %(message)s"
+)
+log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+# ── SCHEMA VERIFIED: SnehaDeshmukh/IndianBailJudgments-1200 ───────────────
+# Fields: facts, judgment_reason, summary, ipc_sections, court, date,
+#         bail_outcome, crime_type, case_title, judge, accused_name, etc.
+# Text = combined facts + judgment_reason + summary (~870 chars avg)
+DATASET_NAME = "SnehaDeshmukh/IndianBailJudgments-1200"
+TEXT_FIELDS = ["facts", "judgment_reason", "summary"]  # combined into raw_text
+COURT_FIELD = "court"
+DATE_FIELD = "date"
+VERDICT_FIELD = "bail_outcome"
+
+
+def validate_schema(row: dict) -> tuple:
+    """
+    v3.1: Validate first row before processing all cases.
+    Returns (is_valid: bool, reason: str)
+    """
+    for field in TEXT_FIELDS:
+        if field not in row:
+            return False, (
+                f"Expected field '{field}' not found in row. "
+                f"Available fields: {list(row.keys())}. "
+                f"Dataset schema may have changed."
+            )
+
+    # Combine text fields and check length
+    combined = " ".join(str(row.get(f, "")) for f in TEXT_FIELDS)
+    if len(combined.strip()) < 50:
+        return False, (
+            f"Combined text fields too short ({len(combined)} chars). "
+            f"Fields: {TEXT_FIELDS}"
+        )
+    return True, "ok"
+
+
+def init_database():
+    conn = sqlite3.connect(DB_PATH)
+    conn.execute("""
+        CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS cases (
+            id TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
+            court TEXT,
+            date TEXT,
+            raw_text TEXT,
+            source TEXT,
+            meta TEXT
+        )
+    """)
+    conn.commit()
+    return conn
+
+
+def fetch_from_huggingface(max_cases=500):
+    from datasets import load_dataset
+
+    log.info(f"Loading {max_cases} diverse cases from {DATASET_NAME}...")
+    ds = load_dataset(
+        DATASET_NAME,
+        split="train",
+    )
+    
+    # Stratified sampling: shuffle to ensure diversity instead of just top N
+    if len(ds) > max_cases:
+        ds = ds.shuffle(seed=42).select(range(max_cases))
+    else:
+        log.warning(f"Dataset has {len(ds)} cases, requesting {max_cases}. Taking all.")
+        ds = ds.shuffle(seed=42)
+
+    if len(ds) == 0:
+        raise ValueError("Dataset returned 0 rows.")
+
+    first_row = dict(ds[0])
+    valid, reason = validate_schema(first_row)
+    if not valid:
+        raise ValueError(
+            f"SCHEMA VALIDATION FAILED: {reason}\n"
+            f"Run the Phase 2.1 schema verification snippet first."
+        )
+
+    log.info(
+        f"Schema valid. TEXT_FIELDS={TEXT_FIELDS}. "
+        f"Processing {len(ds)} rows..."
+    )
+
+    empty_text_count = 0
+    cases = []
+
+    for i, row in enumerate(ds):
+        # Combine text fields: facts + judgment_reason + summary
+        text_parts = []
+        for field in TEXT_FIELDS:
+            val = str(row.get(field, "")).strip()
+            if val and val.lower() != "none":
+                text_parts.append(val)
+        combined_text = " ".join(text_parts)
+
+        if len(combined_text.strip()) < 50:
+            empty_text_count += 1
+            continue
+
+        # Extract IPC sections from the dataset (already parsed!)
+        ipc_raw = row.get("ipc_sections", "[]")
+        try:
+            if isinstance(ipc_raw, str):
+                ipc_sections = json.loads(ipc_raw.replace("'", '"'))
+            elif isinstance(ipc_raw, list):
+                ipc_sections = ipc_raw
+            else:
+                ipc_sections = []
+        except (json.JSONDecodeError, Exception):
+            ipc_sections = []
+
+        case_id = str(row.get("case_id", f"bail_{i}"))
+
+        cases.append({
+            "id": f"hf_{case_id}",
+            "court": str(row.get(COURT_FIELD, "unknown")),
+            "date": str(row.get(DATE_FIELD, "")),
+            "raw_text": combined_text,
+            "source": "huggingface",
+            "meta": json.dumps({
+                "length": len(combined_text),
+                "row_index": i,
+                "dataset": DATASET_NAME,
+                "case_title": str(row.get("case_title", "")),
+                "bail_outcome": str(row.get(VERDICT_FIELD, "")),
+                "crime_type": str(row.get("crime_type", "")),
+                "ipc_sections": ipc_sections,
+                "judge": str(row.get("judge", "")),
+                "accused_name": str(row.get("accused_name", "")),
+                "bail_type": str(row.get("bail_type", "")),
+            })
+        })
+
+    log.info(
+        f"Loaded {len(cases)} valid cases. "
+        f"{empty_text_count} skipped (empty text)."
+    )
+
+    if empty_text_count > max_cases * 0.3:
+        log.warning(
+            f"WARNING: {empty_text_count}/{max_cases} rows had empty text. "
+            f"TEXT_FIELDS={TEXT_FIELDS} may be wrong."
+        )
+
+    return cases
+
+
+def fetch_from_indian_kanoon(
+    query: str,
+    pages: int = 10,
+    method: str = "GET"
+) -> list:
+    """
+    Fetch cases from Indian Kanoon API.
+    - Uses GET or POST based on what the API accepts
+    - 1.5 second delay after every request
+    - Retries up to 3 times on failure
+    - Deduplicates by doc id or hash(title+court)
+    """
+    import time, hashlib
+
+    if not INDIAN_KANOON_API_KEY:
+        log.info("No Indian Kanoon API key. Skipping.")
+        return []
+
+    headers = {"Authorization": f"Token {INDIAN_KANOON_API_KEY}"}
+    cases = []
+
+    for page in range(1, pages + 1):
+        # Retry logic — up to 3 attempts per page
+        success = False
+        for attempt in range(1, 4):
+            try:
+                if method == "GET":
+                    r = requests.get(
+                        f"{INDIAN_KANOON_BASE_URL}/search/",
+                        params={"formInput": query, "pagenum": page},
+                        headers=headers,
+                        timeout=30
+                    )
+                else:
+                    r = requests.post(
+                        f"{INDIAN_KANOON_BASE_URL}/search/",
+                        data={"formInput": query, "pagenum": page},
+                        headers=headers,
+                        timeout=30
+                    )
+
+                if r.status_code == 200:
+                    docs = r.json().get("docs", [])
+                    for doc in docs:
+                        cases.append({
+                            "id":       str(doc.get("tid", "")),
+                            "court":    doc.get("court", "unknown"),
+                            "date":     doc.get("publishdate", ""),
+                            "raw_text": doc.get("doc", ""),
+                            "source":   "indiankanoon",
+                            "meta":     json.dumps(doc)
+                        })
+                    log.info(
+                        f"Query '{query}' page {page}: "
+                        f"{len(docs)} docs fetched"
+                    )
+                    success = True
+                    break
+                else:
+                    log.warning(
+                        f"Attempt {attempt}/3 — "
+                        f"Status {r.status_code} for '{query}' page {page}"
+                    )
+            except Exception as e:
+                log.warning(
+                    f"Attempt {attempt}/3 — "
+                    f"Error for '{query}' page {page}: {e}"
+                )
+
+            # Wait before retry
+            time.sleep(2)
+
+        if not success:
+            log.error(
+                f"Skipping '{query}' page {page} "
+                f"after 3 failed attempts."
+            )
+
+        # Mandatory delay after every request (success or skip)
+        time.sleep(1.5)
+
+    log.info(f"Fetched {len(cases)} raw cases for '{query}'.")
+    return cases
+
+
+def deduplicate_cases(cases: list) -> list:
+    """
+    Remove duplicate cases using:
+    1. doc id (tid) if available and non-empty
+    2. hash(title + court) as fallback
+    Returns unique cases only.
+    """
+    import hashlib
+    seen = set()
+    unique = []
+
+    for c in cases:
+        # Try id first
+        case_id = c.get("id", "").strip()
+
+        # Fallback: hash of raw_text first 200 chars + court
+        if not case_id or case_id == "":
+            raw = c.get("raw_text", "")[:200]
+            court = c.get("court", "")
+            case_id = hashlib.md5(
+                f"{raw}{court}".encode()
+            ).hexdigest()
+
+        if case_id not in seen:
+            seen.add(case_id)
+            # Make sure the id field is set
+            c["id"] = case_id
+            unique.append(c)
+
+    removed = len(cases) - len(unique)
+    if removed > 0:
+        log.info(f"Deduplication: removed {removed} duplicates.")
+    return unique
+
+
+def save_cases_to_db(cases, conn):
+    inserted = 0
+    for c in cases:
+        try:
+            conn.execute(
+                "INSERT OR IGNORE INTO cases VALUES (?,?,?,?,?,?)",
+                (c["id"], c["court"], c["date"],
+                 c["raw_text"], c["source"], c["meta"])
+            )
+            inserted += 1
+        except Exception as e:
+            log.error(f"Insert error {c['id']}: {e}")
+    conn.commit()
+    log.info(f"Saved {inserted} new cases to DB.")
+    return inserted
+
+
+def get_case_count(conn):
+    return conn.execute("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM cases").fetchone()[0]
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    import time
+
+    conn = init_database()
+
+    # Use whichever method worked in Step 1
+    # Change "GET" to "POST" if Step 1 showed POST works
+    API_METHOD = "POST"
+
+    QUERIES = [
+        ("IPC 302 murder conviction sessions court",     10),
+        ("IPC 302 murder acquittal benefit of doubt",    10),
+        ("IPC 376 rape conviction High Court",           10),
+        ("IPC 420 fraud cheating conviction",            10),
+        ("IPC 498A domestic violence matrimonial",       10),
+        ("IPC 307 attempt murder conviction",            10),
+        ("bail application murder rejected",             10),
+        ("bail application granted Supreme Court",       10),
+        ("appeal against conviction allowed High Court", 10),
+        ("acquittal evidence insufficient witness",      10),
+    ]
+
+    TARGET_CASES = 5000
+    all_new_cases = []
+
+    for query, pages in QUERIES:
+        current_count = get_case_count(conn)
+        if current_count >= TARGET_CASES:
+            print(f"Target {TARGET_CASES} reached. Stopping.")
+            break
+
+        print(f"\nFetching: '{query}' ({pages} pages)...")
+        raw_cases = fetch_from_indian_kanoon(
+            query, pages=pages, method=API_METHOD
+        )
+        all_new_cases.extend(raw_cases)
+        print(f"  Got {len(raw_cases)} raw cases")
+
+    # Deduplicate everything before saving
+    print(f"\nTotal raw cases fetched: {len(all_new_cases)}")
+    unique_cases = deduplicate_cases(all_new_cases)
+    print(f"After deduplication: {len(unique_cases)}")
+
+    saved = save_cases_to_db(unique_cases, conn)
+    final_count = get_case_count(conn)
+
+    print(f"\nNew cases saved: {saved}")
+    print(f"Total cases in DB: {final_count}")
+    conn.close()
+
+    if final_count < TARGET_CASES:
+        print(
+            f"\nNote: Got {final_count} cases (target {TARGET_CASES})."
+            f"\nRun fetcher again with different queries to add more."
+        )
+    else:
+        print(f"\nTarget reached: {final_count} cases in DB.")

src/inconsistency.py

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+"""Gap detection — identifies verdict inconsistencies within clusters."""
+import json, numpy as np
+from collections import defaultdict
+from config import CASES_JSON_PATH, LABELS_PATH, GAPS_PATH
+
+
+def detect_gaps(cases=None, labels=None):
+    """
+    Find clusters where similar cases have opposing verdicts.
+
+    Returns list of gap dicts sorted by inconsistency_score (desc).
+    """
+    if cases is None:
+        with open(CASES_JSON_PATH, encoding="utf-8") as f:
+            cases = json.load(f)
+    if labels is None:
+        labels = np.load(LABELS_PATH)
+
+    groups = defaultdict(list)
+    for case, label in zip(cases, labels):
+        lid = int(label)
+        if lid != -1:
+            groups[lid].append(case)
+
+    gaps = []
+    for cid, members in groups.items():
+        verdict_counts = defaultdict(int)
+        for m in members:
+            verdict_counts[m["verdict"]] += 1
+
+        granted = verdict_counts.get("bail_granted", 0) + verdict_counts.get("acquitted", 0)
+        rejected = verdict_counts.get("bail_rejected", 0) + verdict_counts.get("convicted", 0)
+
+        if not granted or not rejected:
+            continue
+
+        total = len(members)
+        score = round(min(granted, rejected) / total, 3)
+
+        all_sections = []
+        for m in members:
+            all_sections.extend(m["ipc_sections"])
+        common_sections = sorted(
+            set(all_sections), key=lambda s: -all_sections.count(s)
+        )[:5]
+
+        gaps.append({
+            "cluster_id": cid,
+            "total_cases": total,
+            "positive_outcome_count": granted,
+            "negative_outcome_count": rejected,
+            "convicted_count": verdict_counts.get("convicted", 0),
+            "acquitted_count": verdict_counts.get("acquitted", 0),
+            "bail_granted_count": verdict_counts.get("bail_granted", 0),
+            "bail_rejected_count": verdict_counts.get("bail_rejected", 0),
+            "inconsistency_score": score,
+            "common_ipc_sections": common_sections,
+            "dominant_case_type": max(
+                set(m["case_type"] for m in members),
+                key=lambda t: sum(1 for m in members if m["case_type"] == t)
+            ),
+            "courts_involved": list(set(m["court"] for m in members))[:5],
+        })
+
+    return sorted(gaps, key=lambda x: -x["inconsistency_score"])
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    gaps = detect_gaps()
+    with open(GAPS_PATH, "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+        json.dump(gaps, f, indent=2)
+    print(f"Detected {len(gaps)} inconsistent clusters.")
+    for g in gaps:
+        print(f"  Cluster {g['cluster_id']}: {g['inconsistency_score']:.0%} inconsistency "
+              f"({g['total_cases']} cases)")

src/nlp_pipeline.py

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+import re, json, sqlite3, spacy
+from pathlib import Path
+from config import DB_PATH, CASES_JSON_PATH, SPACY_MODEL
+
+nlp = spacy.load(SPACY_MODEL)
+
+VERDICT_PATTERNS = {
+    "acquitted": [
+        r"\b(acquitt|not\s+guilty|discharg)\w*\b",
+        r"\bset\s+aside.*convict\w*\b",
+        r"\bconviction\b.*\bset\s+aside\b",
+        r"\border\s+of\s+acquittal\b.*\bconfirm\w*",
+        r"\bdirected\s+to\s+be\s+released\b",
+        r"\breleased\s+on\s+probation\b",
+        r"\bwarrant\s+of\s+conviction\b.*\bquash\w*",
+        r"\bbenefit\s+of\s+(the\s+)?doubt\b",
+    ],
+    "convicted": [
+        r"\b(convict|found\s+guilty|sentenced\s+to|imprisonment\s+for)\w*\b",
+        r"\bplea\s+of\s+guilty\b.*\baccepted?\b",
+        r"\bwarrant\s+of\s+commitment\b",
+        r"\bsentence\s+(is\s+)?maintained\b",
+    ],
+    "appeal_allowed": [
+        r"\bappeal\s+(is\s+)?(hereby\s+)?allow\w*\b",
+        r"\bappeal\s+(is\s+)?(hereby\s+)?succeed\w*\b",
+    ],
+    "appeal_dismissed": [
+        r"\bappeal\s+(is\s+)?(hereby\s+)?dismiss\w*\b",
+        r"\bappeal\s+(is\s+)?(hereby\s+)?reject\w*\b",
+        r"\bappeal\s+(is\s+)?(hereby\s+)?fail\w*\b",
+    ],
+    "bail_granted": [
+        r"\bbail\s+(is\s+)?grant\w*\b",
+        r"\banticipatory\s+bail\b.*\ballow\w*\b",
+        r"\bbail\s+application\b.*\ballow\w*\b",
+        r"\benlarged\s+on\s+bail\b",
+        r"\breleased\s+on\s+bail\b",
+        r"\bbail\s+pray\w*\b.*\ballow\w*\b",
+    ],
+    "bail_rejected": [
+        r"\b(bail\s+(is\s+)?reject\w*|refused\s+bail)\b",
+        r"\bbail\s+application\b.*\bdismiss\w*\b",
+        r"\bbail\s+application\b.*\breject\w*\b",
+        r"\bremanded\s+(to\s+)?(judicial\s+)?custody\b",
+        r"\bbail\s+application\b.*\brefus\w*\b",
+        r"\bbail\s+pray\w*\b.*\b(dismiss|reject|refus)\w*\b",
+        r"\bbail\s+(is\s+)?denied\b",
+    ],
+    "sentence_modified": [
+        r"\bsentence\s+(is\s+)?reduc\w*\b",
+        r"\bsentence\s+(is\s+)?enhanc\w*\b",
+        r"\bperiod\s+already\s+undergone\b",
+        r"\bsentence\s+commut\w*\b",
+    ],
+}
+
+IPC_PATTERN = r"""
+    (?:section|sec\.?|u/?s\.?)\s*
+    (\d{1,3}[A-Za-z]?)
+    (?:\s*/\s*(\d{1,3}[A-Za-z]?))*
+    \s*(?:of\s+the\s+)?
+    (?:Indian\s+Penal\s+Code|IPC|CrPC|Cr\.P\.C\.)?
+"""
+
+CASE_TYPE_KEYWORDS = {
+    "criminal":       ["ipc", "crpc", "murder", "rape", "theft",
+                       "robbery", "fraud", "cheating", "assault", "dacoity"],
+    "civil":          ["contract", "property", "partition", "injunction",
+                       "damages", "specific performance", "tort"],
+    "constitutional": ["article 14", "article 19", "article 21",
+                       "fundamental right", "writ", "habeas corpus"],
+    "family":         ["divorce", "maintenance", "custody", "adoption",
+                       "matrimonial", "hindu marriage"],
+    "labour":         ["workman", "dismissal", "retrenchment", "labour court",
+                       "industrial dispute", "provident fund"],
+}
+
+EVIDENCE_KEYWORDS = [
+    "forensic", "dna", "fingerprint", "eyewitness",
+    "confession", "cctv", "post mortem", "ballistic",
+    "circumstantial", "documentary"
+]
+
+
+def clean_text(text):
+    if not text: return ""
+    text = re.sub(r'Page\s+\d+\s+of\s+\d+', '', text, flags=re.IGNORECASE)
+    text = re.sub(r'\n{2,}', '\n', text)
+    text = re.sub(r'\s{2,}', ' ', text)
+    text = re.sub(r'[\x00-\x08\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x1f\x7f-\x9f]', '', text)
+    return text.strip()
+
+
+def extract_verdict(text):
+    text_lower = text.lower()
+    for label, patterns in VERDICT_PATTERNS.items():
+        for pattern in patterns:
+            if re.search(pattern, text_lower, re.IGNORECASE | re.VERBOSE):
+                return label
+    return "unknown"
+
+
+def extract_ipc_sections(text):
+    matches = re.findall(IPC_PATTERN, text, re.IGNORECASE | re.VERBOSE)
+    sections = []
+    for m in matches:
+        if isinstance(m, tuple):
+            sections.extend([x for x in m if x])
+        else:
+            sections.append(m)
+    return sorted(set(s.upper() for s in sections if s))
+
+
+def extract_case_type(text):
+    text_lower = text.lower()
+    scores = {
+        k: sum(text_lower.count(kw) for kw in v)
+        for k, v in CASE_TYPE_KEYWORDS.items()
+    }
+    best = max(scores, key=scores.get)
+    return best if scores[best] > 0 else "general"
+
+
+def extract_entities(text):
+    doc = nlp(text[:5000])
+    ents = {"persons": [], "organizations": [], "locations": [], "dates": []}
+    for e in doc.ents:
+        if e.label_ == "PERSON":      ents["persons"].append(e.text)
+        elif e.label_ == "ORG":       ents["organizations"].append(e.text)
+        elif e.label_ in ("GPE","LOC"): ents["locations"].append(e.text)
+        elif e.label_ == "DATE":      ents["dates"].append(e.text)
+    return {k: list(set(v)) for k, v in ents.items()}
+
+
+def extract_evidence_types(text):
+    text_lower = text.lower()
+    return [kw for kw in EVIDENCE_KEYWORDS if kw in text_lower]
+
+
+def process_case(row):
+    case_id, court, date, raw_text, source, meta_str = row
+    clean = clean_text(raw_text)
+
+    # Parse stored metadata from fetcher (contains pre-extracted fields)
+    try:
+        meta = json.loads(meta_str) if meta_str else {}
+    except (json.JSONDecodeError, TypeError):
+        meta = {}
+
+    # Extract verdict from text via regex
+    verdict_from_text = extract_verdict(clean)
+
+    # Also use pre-extracted bail_outcome from dataset metadata as fallback
+    bail_outcome = meta.get("bail_outcome", "").strip().lower()
+    if verdict_from_text == "unknown" and bail_outcome:
+        if bail_outcome in ("granted", "grant"):
+            verdict_from_text = "bail_granted"
+        elif bail_outcome in ("rejected", "reject", "denied"):
+            verdict_from_text = "bail_rejected"
+        elif bail_outcome in ("partly granted", "partial"):
+            verdict_from_text = "bail_granted"
+
+    # Extract IPC sections from text
+    ipc_from_text = extract_ipc_sections(clean)
+
+    # Merge with pre-extracted IPC from dataset metadata
+    ipc_from_meta = meta.get("ipc_sections", [])
+    if isinstance(ipc_from_meta, str):
+        try:
+            ipc_from_meta = json.loads(ipc_from_meta.replace("'", '"'))
+        except Exception:
+            ipc_from_meta = []
+    # Normalize: ensure all are uppercase strings
+    ipc_from_meta = [str(s).upper() for s in ipc_from_meta if s]
+    merged_ipc = sorted(set(ipc_from_text + ipc_from_meta))
+
+    return {
+        "id": case_id,
+        "court": court or "unknown",
+        "date": date or "",
+        "source": source or "unknown",
+        "text": clean,
+        "verdict": verdict_from_text,
+        "ipc_sections": merged_ipc,
+        "case_type": extract_case_type(clean),
+        "entities": extract_entities(clean),
+        "evidence_types": extract_evidence_types(clean),
+        "text_length": len(clean),
+        "crime_type": meta.get("crime_type", ""),
+        "case_title": meta.get("case_title", ""),
+    }
+
+
+def run_pipeline(limit=None):
+    conn = sqlite3.connect(DB_PATH)
+    q = "SELECT id, court, date, raw_text, source, meta FROM cases"
+    if limit:
+        q += f" LIMIT {limit}"
+    rows = conn.execute(q).fetchall()
+    conn.close()
+
+    print(f"Processing {len(rows)} cases...")
+    processed = []
+    for i, row in enumerate(rows):
+        if i % 100 == 0:
+            print(f"  [{i}/{len(rows)}]")
+        try:
+            processed.append(process_case(row))
+        except Exception as e:
+            print(f"  Error row {i}: {e}")
+
+    Path(CASES_JSON_PATH).parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with open(CASES_JSON_PATH, "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+        json.dump(processed, f, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False)
+
+    verdicts = {}
+    for c in processed:
+        verdicts[c["verdict"]] = verdicts.get(c["verdict"], 0) + 1
+
+    total = len(processed)
+    unknown_pct = verdicts.get("unknown", 0) / total * 100
+
+    print(f"\n{'='*55}")
+    print(f"VERDICT DISTRIBUTION ({total} cases):")
+    for v, count in sorted(verdicts.items(), key=lambda x: -x[1]):
+        pct = count / total * 100
+        bar = "#" * int(pct / 2)
+        print(f"  {v:<22} {count:4d}  ({pct:5.1f}%)  {bar}")
+    print(f"{'='*55}")
+
+    # IPC coverage stats
+    has_ipc = sum(1 for c in processed if c["ipc_sections"])
+    print(f"\nIPC section coverage: {has_ipc}/{total} ({has_ipc/total*100:.0f}%)")
+
+    # Case type distribution
+    case_types = {}
+    for c in processed:
+        case_types[c["case_type"]] = case_types.get(c["case_type"], 0) + 1
+    print(f"\nCASE TYPE DISTRIBUTION:")
+    for ct, count in sorted(case_types.items(), key=lambda x: -x[1]):
+        print(f"  {ct:<22} {count:4d}")
+
+    # Evidence coverage
+    has_evidence = sum(1 for c in processed if c["evidence_types"])
+    print(f"\nEvidence coverage: {has_evidence}/{total} ({has_evidence/total*100:.0f}%)")
+
+    if unknown_pct > 60:
+        print(f"\nHARD STOP: {unknown_pct:.0f}% unknown verdicts.")
+        print("DEBUG STEPS:")
+        print("1. Check raw text samples from DB")
+        print("2. Add missing regex patterns to VERDICT_PATTERNS")
+        print("3. Re-run nlp_pipeline.py until unknown% < 40%")
+    elif unknown_pct > 40:
+        print(f"\nWARNING: {unknown_pct:.0f}% unknown. Proceed to Phase 4 with caution.")
+    else:
+        print(f"\nVerdict coverage good ({100-unknown_pct:.0f}% classified). Proceed.")
+
+    return processed
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    run_pipeline()

src/query_validator.py

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+"""
+Input validation guard — runs before any ML code.
+
+Returns (True, "")            if valid.
+Returns (False, error_msg)    if invalid.
+
+Catches:
+  1. Empty / whitespace only
+  2. Too long  (> QUERY_MAX_CHARS)     — checked BEFORE word count
+  3. Too short (< QUERY_MIN_CHARS)
+  4. Too few words (< QUERY_MIN_WORDS)
+  5. Non-Latin / Indic script
+  6. No legal signal words
+
+FIXES from v3.2.1 audit:
+  - Too-long check now runs BEFORE short check (was shadowed)
+  - Indic script detection uses ord() ranges instead of regex
+    (regex pattern had encoding issues on some systems)
+  - Legal signal check uses whole-word matching (word boundary)
+  - Single-word error message now includes "too brief"
+"""
+
+import re
+from config import QUERY_MIN_CHARS, QUERY_MAX_CHARS, QUERY_MIN_WORDS
+
+# Legal signal words — at least one must appear as a standalone word
+LEGAL_SIGNALS = [
+    "ipc", "section", "accused", "court", "bail", "murder", "rape",
+    "fraud", "appeal", "conviction", "acquittal", "sentence", "judge",
+    "petitioner", "respondent", "plaintiff", "defendant", "fir", "charge",
+    "arrest", "custody", "evidence", "witness", "verdict", "judgment",
+    "crpc", "article", "writ", "habeas", "injunction", "decree",
+    "theft", "robbery", "assault", "cheating", "dacoity", "offence",
+    "offense", "criminal", "civil", "sessions", "magistrate", "high court",
+    "supreme court", "tribunal", "acquit", "convict", "imprison",
+    "sentenced", "charged", "alleged",
+]
+
+
+def _has_indic_script(text: str) -> bool:
+    """
+    Detect Indic script characters using Unicode code point ranges.
+    Uses ord() checks — avoids regex encoding issues on all platforms.
+
+    Ranges covered:
+      0x0900–0x097F  Devanagari  (Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit)
+      0x0980–0x09FF  Bengali
+      0x0A00–0x0A7F  Gurmukhi   (Punjabi)
+      0x0A80–0x0AFF  Gujarati
+      0x0B00–0x0B7F  Odia
+      0x0B80–0x0BFF  Tamil
+      0x0C00–0x0C7F  Telugu
+      0x0C80–0x0CFF  Kannada
+      0x0D00–0x0D7F  Malayalam
+    """
+    indic_count = 0
+    for ch in text:
+        cp = ord(ch)
+        if (0x0900 <= cp <= 0x097F or   # Devanagari
+            0x0980 <= cp <= 0x09FF or   # Bengali
+            0x0A00 <= cp <= 0x0A7F or   # Gurmukhi
+            0x0A80 <= cp <= 0x0AFF or   # Gujarati
+            0x0B00 <= cp <= 0x0B7F or   # Odia
+            0x0B80 <= cp <= 0x0BFF or   # Tamil
+            0x0C00 <= cp <= 0x0C7F or   # Telugu
+            0x0C80 <= cp <= 0x0CFF or   # Kannada
+            0x0D00 <= cp <= 0x0D7F):    # Malayalam
+            indic_count += 1
+    return indic_count > len(text) * 0.25
+
+
+def _has_legal_signal(text_lower: str) -> bool:
+    """
+    Check for at least one legal signal word.
+    Uses word-boundary matching to avoid false positives from
+    substrings (e.g. "like" inside "Unlike", "in" inside "injunction").
+    """
+    for signal in LEGAL_SIGNALS:
+        # Use \b word boundary for single-word signals
+        # Use plain 'in' check for multi-word signals like "high court"
+        if " " in signal:
+            if signal in text_lower:
+                return True
+        else:
+            if re.search(r'\b' + re.escape(signal) + r'\b', text_lower):
+                return True
+    return False
+
+
+def validate_query(text: str) -> tuple:
+    """
+    Validate query before sending to NLP/ML pipeline.
+
+    Returns:
+        (True, "")                         — valid query
+        (False, human-readable error msg)  — invalid query
+    """
+    # 1. Empty
+    if not text or not text.strip():
+        return False, (
+            "Please describe your case. The search field is empty."
+        )
+
+    text = text.strip()
+
+    # 2. Too long — check BEFORE word count to catch "word " * 1000
+    if len(text) > QUERY_MAX_CHARS:
+        return False, (
+            f"Query too long ({len(text):,} characters, limit {QUERY_MAX_CHARS:,}). "
+            f"Summarize the key charges, facts, and evidence in a few sentences. "
+            f"For a full judgment text, use the PDF upload feature."
+        )
+
+    # 3. Too short (character count)
+    if len(text) < QUERY_MIN_CHARS:
+        return False, (
+            f"Query too short ({len(text)} characters, minimum {QUERY_MIN_CHARS}). "
+            f"Example: 'Accused charged under IPC Section 302 for murder "
+            f"with eyewitness and forensic evidence.'"
+        )
+
+    # 4. Too few words
+    word_count = len(text.split())
+    if word_count < QUERY_MIN_WORDS:
+        return False, (
+            f"Query too brief ({word_count} word{'s' if word_count != 1 else ''}). "
+            f"Please describe the charges, facts, and evidence in at least "
+            f"{QUERY_MIN_WORDS} words."
+        )
+
+    # 5. Non-Latin / Indic script
+    if _has_indic_script(text):
+        return False, (
+            "Query appears to be in a non-English script. "
+            "LexAI's embedding model (LegalBERT) was trained on English legal text. "
+            "Please enter your query in English for accurate results."
+        )
+
+    # 6. No legal signal
+    text_lower = text.lower()
+    if not _has_legal_signal(text_lower):
+        return False, (
+            "Query doesn't appear to describe a legal case. "
+            "Please include legal context such as charges (IPC section), "
+            "case type (murder, bail, fraud), court, or parties. "
+            "Example: 'Accused charged under IPC 420 for cheating. Victim filed FIR.'"
+        )
+
+    return True, ""

src/reranker.py

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+"""
+Cross-encoder re-ranker — sits between FAISS and explanation engine.
+
+Pipeline: FAISS top 50 → CrossEncoder rerank → top 5 → Explanation.
+
+MODEL: cross-encoder/nli-deberta-v3-small
+  - 3 output labels: [contradiction=0, neutral=1, entailment=2]
+  - We extract entailment score (index 2) as the relevance signal
+  - Legal relevance = entailment logic, not webpage click relevance
+
+CRITICAL BUG FIXED IN v3.2.1:
+  Old: scores = model.predict(pairs)
+       → returns shape (n, 3) for NLI models
+       → using raw array as score accidentally sorted by contradiction
+
+  New: scores = model.predict(pairs, apply_softmax=True)[:, 2]
+       → softmax normalizes the 3 logits to probabilities
+       → we take column 2 (entailment probability) as the score
+       → higher entailment = more legally relevant result
+"""
+
+import numpy as np
+from sentence_transformers import CrossEncoder
+from config import RERANKER_MODEL
+
+_model = None   # lazy-loaded singleton
+
+
+def get_reranker():
+    """Load cross-encoder once and reuse. Thread-safe for Streamlit."""
+    global _model
+    if _model is None:
+        print(f"Loading cross-encoder: {RERANKER_MODEL}")
+        print("(First run only — ~110MB download, cached after)")
+        _model = CrossEncoder(RERANKER_MODEL, max_length=512)
+        print("Cross-encoder loaded.")
+    return _model
+
+
+def rerank(query_text: str, candidates: list, top_k: int = 5) -> list:
+    """
+    Re-rank FAISS candidates using cross-encoder entailment scores.
+
+    Args:
+        query_text:  raw query string
+        candidates:  list of (case_dict, faiss_score) tuples
+        top_k:       number of results to return
+
+    Returns:
+        list of (case_dict, entailment_score) sorted descending
+    """
+    if not candidates:
+        return []
+
+    model = get_reranker()
+
+    # Build (query, candidate_text) pairs
+    pairs = [
+        [query_text[:256], case["text"][:400]]
+        for case, _ in candidates
+    ]
+
+    # Predict: returns shape (n_pairs, 3) for NLI model
+    # apply_softmax=True converts logits → probabilities
+    raw = model.predict(pairs, show_progress_bar=False)
+    raw = np.array(raw)
+
+    if raw.ndim == 2 and raw.shape[1] == 3:
+        scores = raw[:, 2]   # NLI model — entailment column
+    else:
+        scores = raw.flatten()  # single-score model — use directly
+
+    # Zip scores back to candidates and sort descending
+    scored = [
+        (candidates[i][0], float(scores[i]))
+        for i in range(len(candidates))
+    ]
+    scored.sort(key=lambda x: x[1], reverse=True)
+
+    return scored[:top_k]

src/retrieval.py

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+"""FAISS retrieval wrapper — handles index loading and similarity search."""
+import numpy as np, faiss, json
+from config import FAISS_INDEX_PATH, CASES_JSON_PATH, EMBEDDINGS_PATH, TOP_K_RETRIEVAL
+
+_index = None
+_cases = None
+
+
+def _load():
+    global _index, _cases
+    if _index is None:
+        _index = faiss.read_index(FAISS_INDEX_PATH)
+    if _cases is None:
+        with open(CASES_JSON_PATH, encoding="utf-8") as f:
+            _cases = json.load(f)
+
+
+def search_faiss(query_vec: np.ndarray, top_k: int = TOP_K_RETRIEVAL) -> list:
+    """
+    Search FAISS index with a normalized query vector.
+
+    Args:
+        query_vec: (1, dim) float32 numpy array, L2-normalized
+        top_k: number of candidates to retrieve
+
+    Returns:
+        List of dicts: [{case data + 'faiss_score'}]
+    """
+    _load()
+    distances, indices = _index.search(query_vec, top_k)
+
+    results = []
+    for dist, idx in zip(distances[0], indices[0]):
+        if idx < 0 or idx >= len(_cases):
+            continue
+        case = _cases[int(idx)].copy()
+        case["faiss_score"] = float(dist)
+        case["result_index"] = int(idx)
+        results.append(case)
+
+    return results
+
+
+def get_case_by_index(idx: int) -> dict:
+    """Get a single case by its index."""
+    _load()
+    if 0 <= idx < len(_cases):
+        return _cases[idx].copy()
+    return {}
+
+
+def get_total_cases() -> int:
+    """Return the total number of indexed cases."""
+    _load()
+    return len(_cases)

src/search_pipeline.py

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+"""
+Search pipeline orchestrator — single entry point for all search.
+
+Usage in app.py:
+    from src.search_pipeline import SearchPipeline
+    pipeline = SearchPipeline()
+    ok, msg = pipeline.health_check()
+    response = pipeline.search("your query", top_k=5)
+
+Architecture:
+    validate → NLP → embed → FAISS → rerank → explain
+    All ML code lives HERE. app.py is UI only.
+
+Runtime safety:
+    Missing files → clear error message, not traceback.
+    health_check() lets app.py show a banner before first search.
+"""
+
+import json, numpy as np, faiss, logging, time
+from pathlib import Path
+from dataclasses import dataclass, field
+from typing import Optional
+
+from config import (
+    CASES_JSON_PATH, EMBEDDINGS_PATH, FAISS_INDEX_PATH,
+    EMBEDDING_MODEL, TOP_K_RETRIEVAL, TOP_K_RESULTS, MAX_TEXT_LENGTH
+)
+from src.query_validator import validate_query
+from src.nlp_pipeline import (
+    clean_text, extract_verdict, extract_ipc_sections,
+    extract_case_type, extract_entities, extract_evidence_types
+)
+from src.reranker import rerank
+from src.explanation_engine import explain_results
+
+log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+# ── Required files + error messages ─────────────────────────────────────────
+
+REQUIRED_FILES = {
+    "cases":       CASES_JSON_PATH,
+    "embeddings":  EMBEDDINGS_PATH,
+    "faiss_index": FAISS_INDEX_PATH,
+}
+
+SETUP_INSTRUCTIONS = {
+    "cases": (
+        "data/processed/cases.json not found.\n"
+        "Run: python src/fetcher.py  then  python src/nlp_pipeline.py"
+    ),
+    "embeddings": (
+        "data/processed/embeddings.npy not found.\n"
+        "Run the Colab notebook (Phase 4) and download all outputs."
+    ),
+    "faiss_index": (
+        "data/processed/faiss.index not found.\n"
+        "Run the Colab notebook (Phase 4) and download all outputs."
+    ),
+}
+
+
+def check_required_files() -> tuple:
+    """
+    Check all required files exist before loading any model.
+    Returns (ok: bool, error_message: str).
+    """
+    for name, path in REQUIRED_FILES.items():
+        if not Path(path).exists():
+            return False, SETUP_INSTRUCTIONS[name]
+    return True, ""
+
+
+# ── Result dataclasses ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+@dataclass
+class SearchResult:
+    """One result from the search pipeline."""
+    case:        dict
+    score:       float
+    explanation: dict
+    rank:        int
+
+
+@dataclass
+class PipelineResponse:
+    """Full response from pipeline.search()."""
+    success:    bool
+    query_case: Optional[dict]  = None
+    results:    list            = field(default_factory=list)
+    error:      Optional[str]   = None
+    error_type: Optional[str]   = None
+    latency_ms: Optional[float] = None
+
+
+# ── Pipeline class ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+class SearchPipeline:
+    """
+    Full LexAI search pipeline with lazy-loaded singleton resources.
+
+    Create once per Streamlit session (@st.cache_resource).
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        self._cases       = None
+        self._index       = None
+        self._embed_model = None
+        self._ready       = False
+        self._init_error  = None
+
+        files_ok, file_error = check_required_files()
+        if not files_ok:
+            self._init_error = file_error
+            log.error(f"SearchPipeline init: {file_error}")
+        else:
+            self._ready = True
+
+    def health_check(self) -> tuple:
+        """
+        Returns (ok: bool, message: str).
+        Call from app.py startup to show warning banner if setup incomplete.
+        """
+        if self._init_error:
+            return False, self._init_error
+        files_ok, file_error = check_required_files()
+        if not files_ok:
+            return False, file_error
+        return True, "Pipeline ready."
+
+    def _load_assets(self):
+        """Lazy-load heavy assets on first search call."""
+        if self._cases is not None:
+            return
+
+        log.info("Loading search assets (first call)...")
+
+        with open(CASES_JSON_PATH, encoding="utf-8") as f:
+            self._cases = json.load(f)
+
+        self._index = faiss.read_index(FAISS_INDEX_PATH)
+
+        from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
+        self._embed_model = SentenceTransformer(EMBEDDING_MODEL)
+
+        log.info(
+            f"Assets loaded: {len(self._cases)} cases, "
+            f"{self._index.ntotal} FAISS vectors."
+        )
+
+    def _build_query_case(self, query_text: str) -> dict:
+        """Run NLP extraction on the raw query text."""
+        clean = clean_text(query_text)
+        return {
+            "text":           clean,
+            "verdict":        extract_verdict(clean),
+            "ipc_sections":   extract_ipc_sections(clean),
+            "case_type":      extract_case_type(clean),
+            "entities":       extract_entities(clean),
+            "evidence_types": extract_evidence_types(clean),
+            "court":          "query",
+            "date":           "",
+        }
+
+    def search(
+        self,
+        query_text:     str,
+        top_k:          int = TOP_K_RESULTS,
+        verdict_filter: str = "All"
+    ) -> PipelineResponse:
+        """
+        Full pipeline: validate → NLP → embed → FAISS → rerank → explain.
+
+        Args:
+            query_text:     raw text from the user
+            top_k:          number of results to return
+            verdict_filter: "All" or a specific verdict label
+
+        Returns:
+            PipelineResponse
+        """
+        t_start = time.time()
+
+        # Step 1: Runtime safety
+        if not self._ready:
+            return PipelineResponse(
+                success=False,
+                error=self._init_error,
+                error_type="setup_error"
+            )
+
+        # Step 2: Validate query
+        is_valid, validation_error = validate_query(query_text)
+        if not is_valid:
+            return PipelineResponse(
+                success=False,
+                error=validation_error,
+                error_type="validation_error"
+            )
+
+        # Step 3: Load assets (lazy)
+        try:
+            self._load_assets()
+        except Exception as e:
+            log.error(f"Asset load failed: {e}")
+            return PipelineResponse(
+                success=False,
+                error=f"Failed to load search index: {e}",
+                error_type="load_error"
+            )
+
+        # Step 4: NLP extraction
+        query_case = self._build_query_case(query_text)
+
+        # Step 5: Embed + FAISS search
+        q_words = query_case["text"].split()[:MAX_TEXT_LENGTH]
+        q_emb   = self._embed_model.encode(
+            [" ".join(q_words)]
+        ).astype("float32")
+        faiss.normalize_L2(q_emb)
+        scores_arr, idxs = self._index.search(q_emb, TOP_K_RETRIEVAL)
+
+        candidates = []
+        for idx, score in zip(idxs[0], scores_arr[0]):
+            if 0 <= idx < len(self._cases):
+                case = self._cases[idx]
+                if verdict_filter == "All" or case.get("verdict") == verdict_filter:
+                    candidates.append((case, float(score)))
+
+        if not candidates:
+            return PipelineResponse(
+                success=True,
+                query_case=query_case,
+                results=[],
+                error=None,
+                latency_ms=round((time.time() - t_start) * 1000, 1)
+            )
+
+        # Step 6: Reranking
+        from config import USE_RERANKER
+        if USE_RERANKER:
+            reranked = rerank(query_text, candidates, top_k=top_k)
+        else:
+            reranked = candidates[:top_k]
+
+        # Step 7: Explanation engine
+        explanations = explain_results(query_case, reranked)
+
+        results = [
+            SearchResult(
+                case=case,
+                score=score,
+                explanation=exp,
+                rank=i + 1
+            )
+            for i, ((case, score), exp) in enumerate(zip(reranked, explanations))
+        ]
+
+        latency = round((time.time() - t_start) * 1000, 1)
+        log.info(f"Search: {len(results)} results in {latency}ms")
+
+        return PipelineResponse(
+            success=True,
+            query_case=query_case,
+            results=results,
+            latency_ms=latency
+        )