Papers with human language evolution
Disentangling Categorization in Multi-agent Emergent Communication (2022.naacl-main)
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| Challenge: | Recent work on the emergence of language between artificial agents has not isolated the effect of categorization power on inter-communication ability. |
| Approach: | They propose to use disentangled representations to quantify categorization power of agents to enable differential analysis between combinations of heterogeneous systems. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method reduces signaling accuracy by 40% despite encouraging compositionality in the artificial language. |
Miss Tools and Mr Fruit: Emergent Communication in Agents Learning about Object Affordances (P19-1)
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| Challenge: | Recent research studies communication emergence in communities of deep network agents assigned a joint task . authors propose a game meeting many desiderata for a natural communication environment . |
| Approach: | They propose a task capturing aspects of the human environment and human conversation . they propose 'game' meeting many desiderata for a natural communication environment . |
| Outcome: | The proposed task captures aspects of human environment and human conversation, but the agents develop multiple idiolects, resulting in a common language. |
A Syntactic and Semantic Probe into Language Evolution based on Large Language Models (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies on language evolution have relied on manual annotated resources and rely on dependency parsing. |
| Approach: | They propose to use attention-based structural distance and semantic space distance to measure language development. |
| Outcome: | The proposed measures show that human and LLMs share common characteristics in language processing. |