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In this work, we study the social learning problem, in which agents of a networked system collaborate to detect the state of the nature based on their private signals. A novel distributed graphical evolutionary game theoretic learning…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Xuanyu Cao , K. J. Ray Liu

Communication can impressively improve cooperation in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), especially for partially-observed tasks. However, existing works either broadcast the messages leading to information redundancy, or learn…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Xudong Guo , Daming Shi , Wenhui Fan

We present a computational model for a symbol emergence system that enables the emergence of lexical knowledge with combinatoriality among agents through a Metropolis-Hastings naming game and cross-situational learning. Many computational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Yoshinobu Hagiwara , Kazuma Furukawa , Takafumi Horie , Akira Taniguchi , Tadahiro Taniguchi

Recent research studies communication emergence in communities of deep network agents assigned a joint task, hoping to gain insights on human language evolution. We propose here a new task capturing crucial aspects of the human environment,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Diane Bouchacourt , Marco Baroni

Finding and facilitating commonalities between the linguistic behaviors of large language models and humans could lead to major breakthroughs in our understanding of the acquisition, processing, and evolution of language. However, most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Lukas Galke , Limor Raviv

Researchers are using deep learning models to explore the emergence of language in various language games, where agents interact and develop an emergent language to solve tasks. We focus on the factors that determine the expressivity of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Shangmin Guo , Yi Ren , Kory Mathewson , Simon Kirby , Stefano V. Albrecht , Kenny Smith

Recently, relational metric learning methods have been received great attention in recommendation community, which is inspired by the translation mechanism in knowledge graph. Different from the knowledge graph where the entity-to-entity…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Mingming Li , Fuqing Zhu , Feng Yuan , Songlin Hu

Prompt engineering is a new paradigm for enhancing the performance of trained neural network models. For optimizing text-style prompts, existing methods usually individually operate small portions of a text step by step, which either breaks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Yujian Betterest Li , Kai Wu

Agent-based models and signalling games are useful tools with which to study the emergence of linguistic communication in a tractable setting. These techniques have been used to study the compositional property of natural languages, but…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Graham Todd , Shane Steinert-Threlkeld , Christopher Potts

Recent work (Xu et al., 2020) has suggested that numeral systems in different languages are shaped by a functional need for efficient communication in an information-theoretic sense. Here we take a learning-theoretic approach and show how…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Emil Carlsson , Devdatt Dubhashi , Fredrik D. Johansson

The field of emergent communication within multi-agent systems examines how autonomous agents can independently develop communication strategies, without explicit programming, and adapt them to varied environments. However, few studies have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Bastien Vanderplaetse , Xavier Siebert , Stéphane Dupont

Modern state-of-the-art Semantic Role Labeling (SRL) methods rely on expressive sentence encoders (e.g., multi-layer LSTMs) but tend to model only local (if any) interactions between individual argument labeling decisions. This contrasts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Chunchuan Lyu , Shay B. Cohen , Ivan Titov

Emotion Support Conversation (ESC) is a crucial application, which aims to reduce human stress, offer emotional guidance, and ultimately enhance human mental and physical well-being. With the advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs),…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Haiquan Zhao , Lingyu Li , Shisong Chen , Shuqi Kong , Jiaan Wang , Kexin Huang , Tianle Gu , Yixu Wang , Wang Jian , Dandan Liang , Zhixu Li , Yan Teng , Yanghua Xiao , Yingchun Wang

Language models show a surprising range of capabilities, but the source of their apparent competence is unclear. Do these networks just memorize a collection of surface statistics, or do they rely on internal representations of the process…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Kenneth Li , Aspen K. Hopkins , David Bau , Fernanda Viégas , Hanspeter Pfister , Martin Wattenberg

The pursuit of artificial agents that can learn to master complex environments has led to remarkable successes, yet prevailing deep reinforcement learning methods often rely on immense experience, encoding their knowledge opaquely within…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Sai Wang , Yu Wu , Zhongwen Xu

A promising approach for teaching artificial agents to use natural language involves using human-in-the-loop training. However, recent work suggests that current machine learning methods are too data inefficient to be trained in this way…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Ryan Lowe , Abhinav Gupta , Jakob Foerster , Douwe Kiela , Joelle Pineau

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated an impressive ability to role-play humans and replicate complex social dynamics. While large-scale social simulations are gaining increasing attention, they still face significant challenges,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Xinyi Mou , Chen Qian , Wei Liu , Xuanjing Huang , Zhongyu Wei

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Eugene Kharitonov , Rahma Chaabouni , Diane Bouchacourt , Marco Baroni

Communication is not only an action of choosing a signal, but needs to consider the context and sensor signals. It also needs to decide what information is communicated and how it is represented in or understood from signals. Therefore,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Katsunari Shibata

How do we communicate with others to achieve our goals? We use our prior experience or advice from others, or construct a candidate utterance by predicting how it will be received. However, our experiences are limited and biased, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Ryan Liu , Howard Yen , Raja Marjieh , Thomas L. Griffiths , Ranjay Krishna