Title : On the role of population heterogeneity in emergent communication
Abstract : Populations have often been perceived as a structuring component for language to emerge and evolve : the larger the population, the more systematic the language. While this observation is widespread in the sociolinguistic literature, it has not been reproduced in computer simulations with neural agents. In this paper, we thus aim to clarify this apparent contradiction. We explore emergent language (…)
AI and Maths conference, 4 April 2025
Centre Sciences des Données
de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure