Kannan Murugapandian
Student, DPS International School
Singapore
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Kannan Murugapandian is an open-source developer and competitive programmer specializing in algorithmic optimization. A speaker at the FOSSASIA Summit 2026 and Open Source Summit India 2026, he also developed LeginAI, an asynchronous multi-LLM legal reasoning system. His competitive record includes a Third Degree Diploma from the NSU, a medal at the National Olympiad in Informatics (NOI), among others. Kannan focuses on deploying lightweight, scalable AI architectures to solve complex real-world problems.
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Judgement Day: Benchmarking "Black Box" LLMs with Open Legal Datasets
As proprietary models like GPT-5 and Gemini assert dominance in professional domains, the open source community faces a critical challenge: how do we verify their claims without access to their weights? We cannot inspect their code, but we can rigorously audit their reasoning using open source benchmarks.
In this session, 16-year-old researcher Kannan Murugapandian presents a technical evaluation of state-of-the-art LLMs using the LegalBench open dataset.
Moving beyond simple Q&A, this session explores:
1. The Evaluation Harness: A deep dive into the custom Python-based testing asynchronous pipeline designed to standardize prompts, manage vector retrieval, and score outputs across disparate model APIs.
2. Open vs. Closed: A data-driven comparison of how open weights models (e.g., DeepSeek/Llama) stack up against closed giants when tasked with complex legal logic.
3. The "Persona" Myth: Quantitative results testing whether "lawyer personas" actually reduce hallucination rates or merely change the output tone.
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