Workshop
Emergent Communication: New Frontiers
Mikhail Noukhovitch · Roberto Dessi · Agnieszka SÅ‚owik · Kevin Denamganai · Niko Grupen · Mathieu Rita · Florian Strub
Fri 29 Apr, 5 a.m. PDT
Emergent Communication (EC) studies learning to communicate by interacting with other agents to solve collaborative tasks. There is a long history of EC for linguistics and the study of language evolution but following deep learning breakthroughs, there has been an explosion in deep EC research. Early work focused on learning more complex and effective protocols for MARL but recent research has expanded scope: inductive biases, population structures, measurements, and evolutionary biology. In parallel, new research has used EC and its paradigm for practical applications in NLP, video games, and even networking. EC has significant potential to impact a wide range of disciplines both within AI (e.g. MARL, visual-question answering, explainability, robotics) and beyond (e.g. social linguistics, cognitive science, philosophy of language) so the goal of this workshop is to push the boundaries of EC as a field and methodology. To achieve this, we are proposing a novel, discussion-focused workshop format and assembling speakers from ML to CogSci to Philosophy and the Arts. Our goal is to create a space for an interdisciplinary community, open new frontiers, and foster future research collaboration.
Schedule
Fri 5:00 a.m. - 5:05 a.m.
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Opening Remarks
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Fri 5:05 a.m. - 5:50 a.m.
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Marco Baroni (ICREA / UPF)
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Marco Baroni 🔗 |
Fri 5:52 a.m. - 5:54 a.m.
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Emergent Communication for Understanding Human Language Evolution: What's Missing?
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Paper Teaser
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SlidesLive Video |
Lukas Galke · Yoav Ram · Limor Raviv 🔗 |
Fri 5:52 a.m. - 5:54 a.m.
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Emergent communication in human-machine games
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Paper Teaser
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SlidesLive Video |
Nicolo Brandizzi · Luca Iocchi 🔗 |
Fri 5:54 a.m. - 5:56 a.m.
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Categorial Grammar Induction as a Compositionality Measure for Emergent Languages in Signaling Games
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SlidesLive Video |
Ryo Ueda · Taiga Ishii · Koki Washio · Yusuke Miyao 🔗 |
Fri 5:56 a.m. - 5:58 a.m.
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Turing Test via Emergent Communication in the Game of Werewolf
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Paper Teaser
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SlidesLive Video |
Olaf Lipinski · Adam Sobey · Timothy Norman · Federico Cerutti 🔗 |
Fri 5:58 a.m. - 6:00 a.m.
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Which Language Evolves Between Heterogeneous Agents? - Communicating Movement Instructions With Widely Different Time Scopes
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Paper Teaser
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SlidesLive Video |
Marie Ossenkopf · Kevin Sebastian Luck · Kory Mathewson 🔗 |
Fri 6:00 a.m. - 6:25 a.m.
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Discussion Group 1
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Discussion Group
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Fri 6:25 a.m. - 6:55 a.m.
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Coffee Break
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Fri 6:55 a.m. - 7:40 a.m.
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Simon Kirby (Uni. of Edinburgh)
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Live Talk by Presenter over Zoom
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Simon Kirby 🔗 |
Fri 7:40 a.m. - 7:42 a.m.
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What makes a language easy to learn? A preregistered study on how systematic structure and community size affect language learnability
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Paper Teaser
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SlidesLive Video |
Limor Raviv · Marianne de Heer Kloots · Antje Meyer 🔗 |
Fri 7:42 a.m. - 7:44 a.m.
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The Language Tool
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Paper Teaser
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SlidesLive Video |
Nancy Salay 🔗 |
Fri 7:44 a.m. - 7:46 a.m.
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Conversational grounding in emergent communication -- data and divergence
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Paper Teaser
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SlidesLive Video |
Oliver Lemon 🔗 |
Fri 7:46 a.m. - 7:48 a.m.
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Joining the Conversation: Towards Language Acquisition for Ad Hoc Team Play
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Paper Teaser
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SlidesLive Video |
Dylan Cope · Peter McBurney 🔗 |
Fri 7:48 a.m. - 7:50 a.m.
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Emergent Communication Fine-tuning (EC-FT) for Pretrained Language Models
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Paper Teaser
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SlidesLive Video |
Shane Steinert-Threlkeld · Xuhui Zhou · Zeyu Liu · C. Downey 🔗 |
Fri 7:50 a.m. - 7:52 a.m.
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Varying meaning complexity to explain and measure compositionality
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Paper Teaser
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Tom Bosc 🔗 |
Fri 7:52 a.m. - 8:15 a.m.
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Discussion Group 2
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Discussion Group
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Fri 8:15 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.
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Coffee Break
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Fri 8:45 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
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Morning Panel : Marco Baroni, Simon Kirby, Natasha Jaques, Limor Raviv
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Discussion Panel
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Simon Kirby · Marco Baroni · Natasha Jaques · Limor Raviv 🔗 |
Fri 9:30 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
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Lunch Break
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Fri 10:15 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
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Natasha Jaques (UC Berkeley / Google)
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Live Talk by Presenter over Zoom
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Natasha Jaques 🔗 |
Fri 11:00 a.m. - 11:02 a.m.
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Modeling Emergent Lexicon Formation with a Self-Reinforcing Stochastic Process
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Paper Teaser
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SlidesLive Video |
Brendon Boldt · David Mortensen 🔗 |
Fri 11:02 a.m. - 11:04 a.m.
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Sifting the Signal from the Noise
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Paper Teaser
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Daniel Herrmann · Jacob VanDrunen 🔗 |
Fri 11:04 a.m. - 11:06 a.m.
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Learning To Ground Decentralized Multi-Agent Communication with Contrastive Learning
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Paper Teaser
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SlidesLive Video |
Yat Long (Richie) Lo · Biswa Sengupta 🔗 |
Fri 11:06 a.m. - 11:08 a.m.
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Emergent Covert Signaling in Adversarial Reference Games
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Paper Teaser
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SlidesLive Video |
Dhara Yu · Jesse Mu · Noah Goodman 🔗 |
Fri 11:08 a.m. - 11:10 a.m.
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Situated Communication: A Solution to Over-communication between Artificial Agents
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Paper Teaser
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SlidesLive Video |
Aleksandra Kalinowska · Elnaz Davoodi · Florian Strub · Kory Mathewson · Todd Murphey · Patrick Pilarski 🔗 |
Fri 11:10 a.m. - 11:35 a.m.
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Discussion Group 3
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Discussion Group
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Fri 11:35 a.m. - 12:05 p.m.
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Coffee Break
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Fri 12:05 p.m. - 12:50 p.m.
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David J. Peterson & Jessie Sams (Stephen F. Austin State University)
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Live Talk by Presenter over Zoom
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David Peterson · Jessie Sams 🔗 |
Fri 12:50 p.m. - 1:05 p.m.
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Short Coffee Break
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Fri 1:05 p.m. - 1:50 p.m.
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Afternoon Panel : David J. Peterson, Jessie Sams, Kory Mathewson
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Discussion Panel
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David Peterson · Jessie Sams · Kory Mathewson 🔗 |
Fri 1:50 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
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Final Remarks
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Live Talk without Slides
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