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Evaluating Multi-Turn Bargain Skills in LLM-Based Seller Agent

arXiv 2509.06341 ↗First posted 8 Sep 2025cs.AIcited by 4

On the map: LLM agents and tool use → Social simulation and multi-agent debate

Abstract (arXiv)

In online second-hand marketplaces, multi-turn bargaining is a crucial part of seller-buyer interactions. Large Language Models (LLMs) can act as seller agents, negotiating with buyers on behalf of sellers under given business constraints. A critical ability for such agents is to track and accurately interpret cumulative buyer intents across long negotiations, which directly impacts bargaining effectiveness. We introduce a multi-turn evaluation framework for measuring the bargaining ability of seller agents in e-commerce dialogues. The framework tests whether an agent can extract and track buyer intents. Our contributions are: (1) a large-scale e-commerce bargaining benchmark spanning 622 categories, 9,892 products, and 3,014 tasks; (2) a turn-level evaluation framework grounded in Theory of Mind (ToM) with annotated buyer intents, moving beyond outcome-only metrics; and (3) an automated pipeline that extracts reliable intent from massive dialogue data.

Key facts. Cited by 4 papers in the map (data through 13 Oct 2026). Placed in Social simulation and multi-agent debate, one of 16 directions in LLM agents and tool use. Builds on 13 of its 13 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 8 Sep 2025.

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  1. 2025FishBargain: An LLM-Empowered Bargaining Agent for Online Fleamarket Platform Sellers22 Jan

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  1. 2026AgenticPay: A Multi-Agent LLM Negotiation System for Buyer-Seller Transactions
  2. 2026E-Commerce Bench: Evaluating LLM Agents on Long-Horizon Autonomous Business Operation
  3. 2026TERMS-Bench: Diagnosing LLM Negotiation Agents Beyond Deal Rate
  4. 2026Sell More, Play Less: Benchmarking LLM Realistic Selling Skill
  5. 2024AgreeMate: Teaching LLMs to Haggle
  6. 2026PieArena: Ranking and Profiling Language Agents in Realistic Negotiation Scenarios
  7. 2026EComStage: Stage-wise and Orientation-specific Benchmarking for Large Language Models in E-commerce
  8. 2026Counterparty Modeling is Not Strategy: The Limits of LLM Negotiators