The authors study first-price auctions (FPA) in which AI agents bid for a user prompt, the highest bidder wins and pays its bid, and receives a reward based on response quality.
First-price auctions can be near-efficient for prompt allocation in agentic markets
Trivedi et al. show that a competitive floor and near-independence of bidder values raise the welfare guarantee from about 63% to up to 86.5%, and potentially close to full efficiency.
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Shubhendu Trivedi · Jacob Eisenstein · Alekh Agarwal · Ian Gemp · Michael Kaisers · Adam Fisch
Google DeepMind · Google Research
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Thread:LLM Agent Markets
Trivedi and colleagues analyze first-price auctions as a serving-time market where AI agents bid for the right to respond to a user prompt, paying their bid when they win.
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Competitive floors and near-independence of values improve welfare guarantee of first-price auctions in agentic markets.
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