Language Emergence

EReLELA: Exploration in Reinforcement Learning via Emergent Language Abstractions

Instruction-following from prompts in Natural Languages (NLs) is an important benchmark for Human-AI collaboration. Training Embodied AI agents for instruction-following with Reinforcement Learning (RL) poses a strong exploration challenge. Previous …

Visual Referential Games Further the Emergence of Disentangled Representations

Natural languages are powerful tools wielded by human beings to communicate information. Among their desirable properties, compositionality has been the main focus in the context of referential games and variants, as it promises to enable greater …

ETHER: Aligning Emergent Communication for Hindsight Experience Replay

Natural language instruction following is paramount to enable collaboration between artificial agents and human beings. Natural language-conditioned reinforcement learning (RL) agents have shown how natural languages' properties, such as …

Meta-Referential Games to Learn Compositional Learning Behaviours

Human beings use compositionality to generalise from past experiences to novel experiences. We assume a separation of our experiences into fundamental atomic components that can be recombined in novel ways to support our ability to engage with novel …

On (Emergent) Systematic Generalisation and Compositionality in Visual Referential Games with Straight-Through Gumbel-Softmax Estimator

The drivers of compositionality in artificial languages that emerge when two (or more) agents play a non-visual referential game has been previously investigated using approaches based on the REINFORCE algorithm and the (Neural) Iterated Learning …

ReferentialGym: A Nomenclature and Framework for Language Emergence & Grounding in (Visual) Referential Games

Natural languages are powerful tools wielded by human beings to communicate information and co-operate towards common goals. Their values lie in some main properties like compositionality, hierarchy and recurrent syntax, which computational linguists …