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AgreeMate: Teaching LLMs to Haggle (arxiv.org)
2 points by rntn on Dec 30, 2024 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: A setup that lets two chatbots play buyer and seller and bargain over prices in plain language, using simple moves like offer or accept. Adding worked examples, extra training, and step-by-step reasoning made them strike better deals than the plain setup, as scored by new negotiation measures.

Abstract

We introduce AgreeMate, a framework for training Large Language Models (LLMs) to perform strategic price negotiations through natural language. We apply recent advances to a negotiation setting where two agents (i.e. buyer or seller) use natural language to bargain on goods using coarse actions. Specifically, we present the performance of Large Language Models when used as agents within a decoupled (modular) bargaining architecture. We demonstrate that using prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and chain-of-thought prompting enhances model performance, as defined by novel metrics. We use attention probing to show model attention to semantic relationships between tokens during negotiations.

Ainesh Chatterjee, Samuel Miller, Nithin Parepally
arXiv:2412.18690 · cs.CL, cs.LG · submitted Dec 24, 2024
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