One-to-Many Communication and Compositionality in Emergent Communication (2024.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Compositional languages leverage rules that derive meaning from combinations of simpler constituents. |
| Approach: | They investigate the effects of one-to-many communication environment on emergent languages where a single speaker broadcasts its message to multiple listeners to cooperatively solve a task. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model shows that broadcasting the speaker’s message to multiple listeners does not induce more compositional languages. |
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