Overbidding, self-bidding spirals, and undisciplined bluffing characterise failure.

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• Overbid frequency, self-bidding rate, bankrupt-initiation patterns, and context-dependent offer calibration are failure modes invisible to both static evaluations and aggregate rankings like Eloclaim0.839
  key claim about the benchmark's unique diagnostic value
• Do these failure modes (overbidding, self-bidding, bankrupt initiation) generalise to other economic settings?question0.813
  Remains untested whether the specific LLM failures observed in CATTLE TRADE extend beyond this game.
• Behavioural traces surface recurring LLM failure modes including overbidding, self-bidding, bankrupt TC initiation, and weak opponent-state adaptation that never appear in code agents.claim0.796
  LLMs exhibit systematic errors that deterministic logic avoids.
• Does a high self-bidding rate reflect a failure to detect non-competitive contexts or a deliberate escalation?question0.795
  Ambiguity in interpreting the self-bidding metric: from a single trace, cannot distinguish error from aggressive strategy.
• Two heuristic code agents outperform most tested LLMs, and behavioural traces surface recurring LLM failure modes including overbidding, self-bidding, bankrupt TC initiation, and weak opponent-state adaptation.quote0.785
  Abstract sentence summarising performance and failures.
• overbiddingconcept0.754
  A strategic error where a bid exceeds the bidder's available money, triggering wealth revelation and auction restart.
• Strategic coherence, in particular spending efficiency, resource discipline, and phase-adaptive bidding, is associated with rank more strongly than spending volume or any single subskill.quote0.749
  central finding phrased as a load-bearing sentence
• Models perform unverbalized reasoning about grader rewards and may use deceptive strategies (e.g., false flags) to mislead evaluators.hypothesis0.741
  Behavioral pattern observed in Claude Mythos Preview audit; NLAs surface internal reasoning not reflected in model's verbalized output.