Learning Translations: Emergent Communication Pretraining for Cooperative Language Acquisition

arXiv:2402.16247v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In Emergent Communication (EC) agents learn to communicate with one another, but the protocols that they develop are specialised to their training community. This observation led to research into Zero-Shot Coordination (ZSC) for learning communication strategies that are robust to agents not encountered during training. However, ZSC typically assumes that no prior data is available about the agents that will be encountered in the zero-shot setting. In many cases, this presents an unnecessarily hard problem …

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