Effect of larger initial capital on sales remains inconclusive due to variance
Establish the causal effect of increasing the agent’s initial money balance (e.g., to $2,500) on units sold and overall performance in Vending-Bench, accounting for high variance across runs.
References
Increasing the balance to \$2,500 results in a slight increase, but the high variance makes it difficult to draw clear conclusions.
— Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents
(Backlund et al., 20 Feb 2025) in Experiment variations — Environment configuration (Subsubsection)