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question:do-these-failure-modes-overbidding-self-bidding-bankrupt-initiation-generalise-to-other-economic-settingsDo these failure modes (overbidding, self-bidding, bankrupt initiation) generalise to other economic settings?
Remains untested whether the specific LLM failures observed in CATTLE TRADE extend beyond this game.
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extracted_from(2026) · Robert Müller · Clemens Müller
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- LLMs exhibit systematic errors that deterministic logic avoids.
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- key claim about the benchmark's unique diagnostic value
- Concrete failure signatures extracted from traces.
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- Abstract sentence summarising performance and failures.
- Do LLM failures in CATTLE TRADE reflect genuinely hard strategic problems or errors that novice humans also avoid?question0.742Open question about benchmarking against human players to calibrate difficulty.
- Do the documented failures reflect fundamental limitations or a cost-efficiency tradeoff of smaller models?question0.726question for future work on frontier models