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\section{Introduction}
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Research Objectives and Contribution: What are we making, why and who should care?
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In this paper we present an exploration and defense against the persence of new comercial entities present in digitially powered platforms. This research aims to establish the following contributions: definition and formalization of the existence of non-human transactors in e-commerce platforms, development of a testing-ground for capturing the behavioral essence off these transactors on a large variety of digital systems, construction of a discriminative model (to prove separability) as a strong learner for downstream mitigation of contamination by non-human entities, translation of such learned separability into existing dynamic pricing machine learning loops, finally we establish a high-level KPI affecting causal effect and cost-saving framework for the future of commerce done on the internet with the presence of such non-human learners.
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This research effort touches a large variety of domains, spanning those such as: behavioral economics for understanding the rationality of behavior as theorizied by the concept of homo economicus, agent-based modeling in our effort to translate our learned separability into disjoint dynamic pricing systems, reinforcement learning which serves as the SOTA for price-learners, dynamic pricing and economics market theory of equilibrium to understand the risks of possible supra-competitive pricing phenomena in cases of adversarial pricing systems (driving the market out of equilibrium).
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\subsection{Motivation and Market Context}
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Current market dynamics and trends of dynamic pricing and AI agents. Future projections of AI agents. Key stakeholders that are discussing this and reporting on it (Thales). Who is most affected
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The current innovation boom in generative artificial inteligence and its applications to knowledge-based work tasks, has brought many competing technologies for browser-use automation, with most benchmarks and evals motivating \cite{Xia2025} the development of ability focusing on the performance of commercial research, understanding and transaction execution. \cite{Xie} The ``AI Agent'' market is forecasted to grow from around USD 5-8 billion in 2025 to USD 42-52 billion by 2030. This surge reflects adoption in e-commerce, customer service, and enterprise automation, where agents handle interactions previously done by humans. Begging the question of how should these systems be designed for future robustness aswell as how to maintain a competitive edge in the analytical components of these ecommerce platforms. \cite{MarkNtelAdvisors2025}
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The key stakeholders of the threat presented by the shift towards a growing share of the traffic coming from agents include online businesses and platform operators (especially in bot-heavy sectors like retail, travel, and financial services), their security/fraud and engineering teams, end users whose accounts and data are exposed (and whose experience degrades), regulators or legal stakeholders responding to breaches and fraud, and the attackers/bot operators driving the automation.\cite{Imperva2025}
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The industry has already seen legal action coming from large cases like Amazon against Perplexity \cite{AmazonvsPerplexity} which comes from the nature of the difficulty of identifying traffic coming from hybrid systems like the Commet browser, which is a system that this paper does explore in order to better understand the nature of how the interaction data looks like and what it means for dynamic pricing or recommendation systems down the line. This observed impact indicates a need for prevention of seconddary negative effects on the ``legacy'' systems which power modern revenue sources for many companies. Dynamic pricing algorithms rely on directly trnslating demand features $q$ to new price assignments $\hat{p}$ across a catalogue of products of size $N$.
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\subsection{Solution Space Overview}
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The dynamic pricing systems, as presented in \cite{Mueller2019} often deal with sparse low-rank data of demand signals, which in combination with contamination from agents makes for a very complex set of interactions which have an impact on the pricing. To further complicate the problem in certain comercial settings, such as the one presented in \cite{Amjad2017} must addreses the true demand of products under censored observations. This sets us up with a good formulation for handling demand in our case of multiple kinds of comercial mediators $\hat{q} \gets q_A + q_H$ where $A$ represents the distribution of demand generated by agentic mediators and $H$ represents that of true human demand.
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The previously described goal of
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Different approaches and perspectives, here also add a preview of what will be developed and explored in the lit review.
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