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Approach: They propose a Rational Speech Act extension that optimizes a gain function adapted from rate-distortion theory to model multi-turn dialog by optimizing a model gain . they demonstrate the effectiveness of CRSA on referential games and template-based doctor–patient dialogs in the medical domain.
Outcome: The proposed model yields more consistent, interpretable, and collaborative behavior than baselines, paving the way for more pragmatic and socially aware language agents.

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