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Melih Bastopcu

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Preprint Sep 2026

Strategic Information Transmission over Gossip Networks

We consider a fully connected gossip network of $n$ nodes that track a binary continuous-time Markov source through a strategic sender transmitting updates under a communication budget at a rate that depends on the source state. The receivers exchange packets through gossip and decide whether to follow the sender. We m...

Emirhan Tekez, Melih Bastopcu, S. Gezici · 0 citations

Preprint Aug 2026

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

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 Stacke...

Ahmet Bugra Gundogan, Yigit Turkmen, Melih Bastopcu · 0 citations