Delegated Influence

A competitive multi-agent benchmark for LLM persuasion: the only way to score is to get other agents to spend their scarce actions on you.

135701a · generated 2026-07-07 · 476 episodes · private draft — not for citation

Experiment

Background check

Experiment 2 — background check: does the filler model reliably produce valid moves? Validates glm-5.2 (the new background) before anything expensive runs. Expectation: glm-5.2 forfeits under 3% of turns; in the all-glm baseline, seat labels (P1..P5) score within noise of each other — any seat-label spread is a design artifact.

status
done
coverage
11 / 11 episodes
conditions
pure economy; messages on, pure economy; messages on
config
configs/02_background_check.yaml

11 episodes; mean confirmed message chains per episode = 0.5.

image/svg+xml Matplotlib v3.11.0, https://matplotlib.org/ 02_background_check--gemini-flash-r0 02_background_check--gemini-flash-r1 02_background_check--glm-5.2-r0 02_background_check--glm-5.2-r1 02_background_check--gpt-5.4-mini-r0 02_background_check--gpt-5.4-mini-r1 02_background_check--lineup_complete_r0 02_background_check--lineup_complete_r1 02_background_check--lineup_complete_r2 02_background_check--lineup_complete_r3 02_background_check--lineup_complete_r4 0 2

one slim bar per episode; the oxblood line is the mean

n = 11 episodes.

Episodes

episodeconditionfocal model capture (by focal)cascadesgini
02_background_check--gemini-flash-r0 complete/pure/msg-on 0 0.132
02_background_check--gemini-flash-r1 complete/pure/msg-on 0 0.179
02_background_check--glm-5.2-r0 complete/pure/msg-on 0 0.0357
02_background_check--glm-5.2-r1 complete/pure/msg-on 0 0.0326
02_background_check--gpt-5.4-mini-r0 complete/pure/msg-on 0 0.283
02_background_check--gpt-5.4-mini-r1 complete/pure/msg-on 0 0.145
02_background_check--lineup_complete_r0 complete/pure/msg-on 0 0.263
02_background_check--lineup_complete_r1 complete/pure/msg-on 3 0.0235
02_background_check--lineup_complete_r2 complete/pure/msg-on 0 0.2
02_background_check--lineup_complete_r3 complete/pure/msg-on 0 0.226
02_background_check--lineup_complete_r4 complete/pure/msg-on 3 0.0239

11 episodes, sorted by condition then id; episode links open the transcript reader.