Delay-of-Gratification as a Multi-Agent Survival Micro-benchmark for Long-Horizon LLMs: Social Exposure, Personas, and Tool Use Budgets

arXiv:2609.29509 · cs.AI, cs.CL · Submitted 2026-08-26 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-08-26

Updated: 2026-08-26

Terminology

• Ablation — 15× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Scaffolding — 9× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Benchmark — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Action Space — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Metacognition — 4× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Trace — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Restricted Mean Survival Time — 3× in this paper
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Partially Observable Markov Decision Process — 2× in this paper
• Personalization — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Instruction Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Odds Ratio — 1× in this paper
• Partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Persona Prompting — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

Sources

• LLM-driven Imitation of Subrational Behavior : Illusion or Reality?
• LLMs Get Lost In Multi-Turn Conversation
• CAMEL: Communicative Agents for "Mind" Exploration of Large Language Model Society
• AgentBench: Evaluating LLMs as Agents
• Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior
• Measuring and Narrowing the Compositionality Gap in Language Models
• Two Tales of Persona in LLMs: A Survey of Role-Playing and Personalization
• Will the Real Linda Please Stand up...to Large Language Models? Examining the Representativeness Heuristic in LLMs
• Tree of Thoughts: Deliberate Problem Solving with Large Language Models
• ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models

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