DS-v3.2 incrementing bid 10→850 over 49 sole-bidder rounds

possible 'treats-own-bid-as-competitor' pathology in one trace

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(2026) · Robert Müller · Clemens Müller

cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

DeepSeek v3.2 increments bid from 10 to 850 over 49 sole-bidder roundsfinding0.879
One DS-v3.2 trace shows extreme self-escalation, suggestive of treating own bid as competitor.
DS-v3.2 self-bid rate=75.4%finding0.807
high self-bid rate for DeepSeek, one of the highest
DS-v3.2 late bid aggressiveness 1.65finding0.799
Escalates but without discipline.
DS-v3.2 overbid rate=0.49%finding0.776
overbid rate for DeepSeek v3.2
DeepSeek v3.2 self-bidding rate 75.4%finding0.761
DS-v3.2 has a high proportion of self-bidding rounds.
DS-v3.2 wins 10.7% of mixed gamesfinding0.736
Poor performance against code agents.
G3-F bid aggressiveness ramp 0.26 (early) → 2.49 (late), ≈10× escalationfinding0.734
Strong phase-adaptive bidding.
G2.5-FL self-bid rate=78.5%finding0.721
highest self-bid rate among all agents