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EGG: a toolkit for research on Emergence of lanGuage in Games

Computation and Language 2019-10-15 v2 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

There is renewed interest in simulating language emergence among deep neural agents that communicate to jointly solve a task, spurred by the practical aim to develop language-enabled interactive AIs, as well as by theoretical questions about the evolution of human language. However, optimizing deep architectures connected by a discrete communication channel (such as that in which language emerges) is technically challenging. We introduce EGG, a toolkit that greatly simplifies the implementation of emergent-language communication games. EGG's modular design provides a set of building blocks that the user can combine to create new games, easily navigating the optimization and architecture space. We hope that the tool will lower the technical barrier, and encourage researchers from various backgrounds to do original work in this exciting area.

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@article{arxiv.1907.00852,
  title  = {EGG: a toolkit for research on Emergence of lanGuage in Games},
  author = {Eugene Kharitonov and Rahma Chaabouni and Diane Bouchacourt and Marco Baroni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.00852},
  year   = {2019}
}

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EMNLP 2019 Demo paper