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Sell More, Play Less: Benchmarking LLM Realistic Selling Skill

Xuanbo Su, Wenhao Hu, Haibo Su, Yunzhang Chen +3 more

Published

Apr 8, 2026

Citations

0

Trust level

Low

Usefulness score

24/100 (Low)

Extraction confidence

40% (Low)

Derived from extracted protocol signals and abstract evidence.

Rater population

Mixed

Signals refreshed

Apr 9, 2026

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Should you rely on this paper?

This paper is adjacent to HFEPX scope and is best used for background context, not as a primary protocol reference.

Use this as background context only. Do not make protocol decisions from this page alone.

Best use

Background context only

Use if you need

A secondary eval reference to pair with stronger protocol papers.

What to verify

Read the full paper before copying any benchmark, metric, or protocol choices.

Main weakness

The available metadata is too thin to trust this as a primary source.

Human feedback signal
Not explicit
Not explicit in abstract metadata
Evaluation signal
Detected
Eval setup described
Usefulness for eval research
24/100
Adjacent candidate

Treat as adjacent context, not a core eval-method reference.

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Abstract

Sales dialogues require multi-turn, goal-directed persuasion under asymmetric incentives, which makes them a challenging setting for large language models (LLMs). Yet existing dialogue benchmarks rarely measure deal progression and outcomes. We introduce SalesLLM benchmark, a bilingual (ZH/EN) benchmark derived from realistic applications covering Financial Services and Consumer Goods, built from 30,074 scripted configurations and 1,805 curated multi-turn scenarios with controllable difficulty and personas. We propose a fully automatic evaluation pipeline that combines (i) an LLM-based rater for sales-process progress,and (ii) fine-tuned BERT classifiers for end-of-dialogue buying intent. To improve simulation fidelity, we train a user model, CustomerLM, with SFT and DPO on 8,000+ crowdworker-involved sales conversations, reducing role inversion from 17.44% (GPT-4o) to 8.8%. SalesLLM benchmark scores correlate strongly with expert human ratings (Pearson r=0.98). Experiments across 15 mainstream LLMs reveal substantial variability: top-performance LLMs are competitive with human-level performance while the less capable ones are worse than human. SalesLLM benchmark serves as a scalable benchmark for developing and evaluating outcome-oriented sales agents.

What we could verify

These are the protocol signals we could actually recover from the available paper metadata. Use them to decide whether this paper is worth deeper reading.

Human Feedback Types

missing

None explicit

No explicit feedback protocol extracted.

"Sales dialogues require multi-turn, goal-directed persuasion under asymmetric incentives, which makes them a challenging setting for large language models (LLMs)."

Evaluation Modes

partial

Human Eval, Simulation Env

Includes extracted eval setup.

"Sales dialogues require multi-turn, goal-directed persuasion under asymmetric incentives, which makes them a challenging setting for large language models (LLMs)."

Quality Controls

missing

Not reported

No explicit QC controls found.

"Sales dialogues require multi-turn, goal-directed persuasion under asymmetric incentives, which makes them a challenging setting for large language models (LLMs)."

Benchmarks / Datasets

missing

Not extracted

No benchmark anchors detected.

"Sales dialogues require multi-turn, goal-directed persuasion under asymmetric incentives, which makes them a challenging setting for large language models (LLMs)."

Reported Metrics

missing

Not extracted

No metric anchors detected.

"Sales dialogues require multi-turn, goal-directed persuasion under asymmetric incentives, which makes them a challenging setting for large language models (LLMs)."

Rater Population

partial

Mixed

Helpful for staffing comparability.

"We propose a fully automatic evaluation pipeline that combines (i) an LLM-based rater for sales-process progress,and (ii) fine-tuned BERT classifiers for end-of-dialogue buying intent."

Benchmarks and datasets

No benchmark or dataset names were extracted from the available abstract.

Reported metrics

No metric terms were extracted from the available abstract.

Human feedback details
Uses human feedback
No
Feedback types
None
Rater population
Mixed
Expertise required
General
Evaluation details
Evaluation modes
Human Eval, Simulation Env
Agentic eval
None
Quality controls
Not reported
Evidence quality
Low
Use this page as
Background context only

Research brief

Metadata summary

Sales dialogues require multi-turn, goal-directed persuasion under asymmetric incentives, which makes them a challenging setting for large language models (LLMs).

Based on abstract + metadata only. Check the source paper before making high-confidence protocol decisions.

Key takeaways

  • Sales dialogues require multi-turn, goal-directed persuasion under asymmetric incentives, which makes them a challenging setting for large language models (LLMs).
  • Yet existing dialogue benchmarks rarely measure deal progression and outcomes.
  • We introduce SalesLLM benchmark, a bilingual (ZH/EN) benchmark derived from realistic applications covering Financial Services and Consumer Goods, built from 30,074 scripted configurations and 1,805 curated multi-turn scenarios with controllable difficulty and personas.

Researcher actions

  • Compare this paper against nearby papers in the same arXiv category before using it for protocol decisions.
  • Validate inferred eval signals (Simulation environment) against the full paper.
  • Use related-paper links to find stronger protocol-specific references.

Caveats

  • Generated from abstract + metadata only; no PDF parsing.
  • Signals below are heuristic and may miss details reported outside the abstract.

Recommended queries

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Contribution summary

  • Yet existing dialogue benchmarks rarely measure deal progression and outcomes.
  • We introduce SalesLLM benchmark, a bilingual (ZH/EN) benchmark derived from realistic applications covering Financial Services and Consumer Goods, built from 30,074 scripted configurations and 1,805 curated multi-turn scenarios with…
  • We propose a fully automatic evaluation pipeline that combines (i) an LLM-based rater for sales-process progress,and (ii) fine-tuned BERT classifiers for end-of-dialogue buying intent.

Why it matters for eval

  • We introduce SalesLLM benchmark, a bilingual (ZH/EN) benchmark derived from realistic applications covering Financial Services and Consumer Goods, built from 30,074 scripted configurations and 1,805 curated multi-turn scenarios with…
  • We propose a fully automatic evaluation pipeline that combines (i) an LLM-based rater for sales-process progress,and (ii) fine-tuned BERT classifiers for end-of-dialogue buying intent.

Researcher checklist

  • Human feedback protocol is explicit

    No explicit human feedback protocol detected.

  • Evaluation mode is explicit

    Detected: Human Eval, Simulation Env

  • Quality control reporting appears

    No calibration/adjudication/IAA control explicitly detected.

  • Benchmark or dataset anchors are present

    No benchmark/dataset anchor extracted from abstract.

  • Metric reporting is present

    No metric terms extracted.