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Bayesian Intelligence from the Outside
Alex Smolin, Bryan Wilder
Inferring intelligence from observable behavior is a foundational challenge in artificial intelligence. We develop a theory of Bayesian intelligence for agents such as language mod…
Beliefs and Behavior in Language Models
Alex Smolin, Bryan Wilder
There is significant uncertainty about whether abstractions like beliefs or desires usefully describe the behavior of large language models (LLMs). In addition to the inherent scie…
Menu Pricing of Large Language Models
Dirk Bergemann, Alessandro Bonatti, Alex Smolin
We develop a framework for the optimal pricing and product design of LLMs in which a provider sells menus of token budgets to users who differ in their valuations across a continuu…
Algorithmic Recommendations and Strategic Pricing
Shota Ichihashi, Alex Smolin
We study algorithmic recommendations in a market with a buyer, privately informed sellers, and an algorithm that can recommend a product based on product values and posted prices b…
Data Provision to an Informed Seller
Shota Ichihashi, Alex Smolin
A monopoly seller is privately and imperfectly informed about the buyer's value of the product. The seller uses information to price discriminate the buyer. A designer offers a mec…
Information Design in Smooth Games
Alex Smolin, Takuro Yamashita
We study information design in games where players choose from a continuum of actions and have continuously differentiable payoffs. We show that an information structure is optimal…
Persuasion and Welfare
Laura Doval, Alex Smolin
Information policies such as scores, ratings, and recommendations are increasingly shaping society's choices in high-stakes domains. We provide a framework to study the welfare imp…
The Optimality of Upgrade Pricing
Dirk Bergemann, Alessandro Bonatti, Andreas Haupt +1
We consider a multiproduct monopoly pricing model. We provide sufficient conditions under which the optimal mechanism can be implemented via upgrade pricing -- a menu of product bu…