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135701a · generated 2026-07-07 · 476 episodes · private draft — not for citation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

Five principals

Experiment 3 — five principals: the 5 models we care about, all playing each other. Small and cheap -> run many times for tight error bars (Q1 persuasion, Q3 leaderboard, Q6 strategies). Expectation: at 30 reps, capture differences between the five principals exceed their error bars.

status
done
coverage
30 / 30 episodes
conditions
pure economy; messages on
questions
q1 · q3 · q6
config
configs/03_five_principals.yaml

30 episodes; mean confirmed message chains per episode = 3.1.

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

n = 30 episodes.

Episodes

episodeconditionfocal model capture (by focal)cascadesgini
03_five_principals--lineup_complete_r0 complete/pure/msg-on — — 4 0.0685
03_five_principals--lineup_complete_r1 complete/pure/msg-on — — 3 0.115
03_five_principals--lineup_complete_r10 complete/pure/msg-on — — 4 0.137
03_five_principals--lineup_complete_r11 complete/pure/msg-on — — 1 0.161
03_five_principals--lineup_complete_r12 complete/pure/msg-on — — 1 0.137
03_five_principals--lineup_complete_r13 complete/pure/msg-on — — 0 0.264
03_five_principals--lineup_complete_r14 complete/pure/msg-on — — 5 0.0952
03_five_principals--lineup_complete_r15 complete/pure/msg-on — — 2 0.216
03_five_principals--lineup_complete_r16 complete/pure/msg-on — — 4 0.0618
03_five_principals--lineup_complete_r17 complete/pure/msg-on — — 2 0.216
03_five_principals--lineup_complete_r18 complete/pure/msg-on — — 3 0.158
03_five_principals--lineup_complete_r19 complete/pure/msg-on — — 0 0.216
03_five_principals--lineup_complete_r2 complete/pure/msg-on — — 4 0.111
03_five_principals--lineup_complete_r20 complete/pure/msg-on — — 1 0.175
03_five_principals--lineup_complete_r21 complete/pure/msg-on — — 3 0.167
03_five_principals--lineup_complete_r22 complete/pure/msg-on — — 6 0.181
03_five_principals--lineup_complete_r23 complete/pure/msg-on — — 6 0.033
03_five_principals--lineup_complete_r24 complete/pure/msg-on — — 2 0.131
03_five_principals--lineup_complete_r25 complete/pure/msg-on — — 4 0.127
03_five_principals--lineup_complete_r26 complete/pure/msg-on — — 2 0.044
03_five_principals--lineup_complete_r27 complete/pure/msg-on — — 0 0.248
03_five_principals--lineup_complete_r28 complete/pure/msg-on — — 2 0.206
03_five_principals--lineup_complete_r29 complete/pure/msg-on — — 0 0.226
03_five_principals--lineup_complete_r3 complete/pure/msg-on — — 4 0.198
03_five_principals--lineup_complete_r4 complete/pure/msg-on — — 5 0.0407
03_five_principals--lineup_complete_r5 complete/pure/msg-on — — 4 0.103
03_five_principals--lineup_complete_r6 complete/pure/msg-on — — 3 0.133
03_five_principals--lineup_complete_r7 complete/pure/msg-on — — 5 0.147
03_five_principals--lineup_complete_r8 complete/pure/msg-on — — 5 0.0634
03_five_principals--lineup_complete_r9 complete/pure/msg-on — — 7 0.0885

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