Competition Floor
A structural feature of agent marketplaces in which multiple bidders value a prompt above a certain baseline, thereby limiting the bid-shading space available to any single bidder.
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The paper analyzes the competitive floor as the first mechanism for improving PoA: when multiple bidders all value the prompt above some baseline fraction of the optimal welfare, competition naturally limits welfare loss.
The real-world source of the competitive floor effect is that the best models are often distilled into cheaper substitutes with similar performance, making a prompt of considerable value to a group of agents.
As the competitive floor rises, welfare loss can be compressed to approach zero.
The paper's conclusions are built on specific assumptions: the existence of a competitive floor and the conditional independence of the value distribution, and whether real markets stably satisfy these conditions still requires more data to examine.
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The paper analyzes the competitive floor as the first mechanism for improving PoA: when multiple bidders all value the prompt above some baseline fraction of the optimal welfare, competition naturally limits welfare loss.
50%UnverifiedThe real-world source of the competitive floor effect is that the best models are often distilled into cheaper substitutes with similar performance, making a prompt of considerable value to a group of agents.
50%UnverifiedThe paper's conclusions are built on specific assumptions: the existence of a competitive floor and the conditional independence of the value distribution, and whether real markets stably satisfy these conditions still requires more data to examine.
50%UnverifiedAs the competitive floor rises, welfare loss can be compressed to approach zero.
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