Challenge: Recent advances in AI and NLP have led researchers to develop techniques to build autonomous agents which can achieve human-level performance in bargaining games such as Deal-orno-Deal.
Approach: They propose a negotiation framework which incorporates fairness into reward design and search to learn human-compatible negotiation strategies.
Outcome: The proposed framework achieves more egalitarian negotiation outcomes and improves negotiation quality.

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