2026-06-30 · paper-digest
Feng et al.: Can LLM Agents Bargain Well in a Trading Game? — Fukai Reads
A Tsinghua University team's benchmark, SidConArena, for evaluating LLM agents in a cooperative-yet-competitive trading game. Built on the board game Sidereal Confluence, it scores agents across negotiation, production, and sealed-bid auction phases, finding that frontier models are stronger but still misprice resources, bargain passively, and plan poorly over long horizons.