cs.GT · 2026-08-16 · No. 86

Computer Science and Game Theory, 2026-08-16.

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01 — The papers

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    Keep, Customize, or Exit: Default Design and Token Pricing in LLM Reasoning Services

    Ahmet Bugra Gundogan, Yigit Turkmen, Melih Bastopcu

    cs.GT · cs.AI · cs.LG · eess.SY

    We study a large language model (LLM) service in which a provider chooses a per-token price and a default reasoning-token allocation, while a user may accept the default, customize the allocation, or exit. Larger allocations can improve accuracy but increase token cost and latency. We model this interaction as a Stackelberg game and derive the user's unique optimal customized allocation in closed form. For any price, the acceptable defaults...

    arxiv.org/abs/2608.13315 · PDF

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