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Structural Inductive Biases in Emergent Communication

Computation and Language 2021-07-28 v4 Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Multiagent Systems Machine Learning

Abstract

In order to communicate, humans flatten a complex representation of ideas and their attributes into a single word or a sentence. We investigate the impact of representation learning in artificial agents by developing graph referential games. We empirically show that agents parametrized by graph neural networks develop a more compositional language compared to bag-of-words and sequence models, which allows them to systematically generalize to new combinations of familiar features.

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@article{arxiv.2002.01335,
  title  = {Structural Inductive Biases in Emergent Communication},
  author = {Agnieszka Słowik and Abhinav Gupta and William L. Hamilton and Mateja Jamnik and Sean B. Holden and Christopher Pal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.01335},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

The first two authors contributed equally. Poster presented at CogSci 2021

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