Emergent Communication in Continuous Worlds: Self-Organisation of Conceptually Grounded Vocabularies at Scale (opens in new tab)

This paper introduces a general methodology through which a population of autonomous agents can converge on a linguistic convention that enables them to refer to arbitrary entities in their environment. The linguistic convention emerges in a decentralised manner through local communicative interactions between pairs of agents drawn from the population. The emergent convention consists of associations between symbolic labels (word forms) and ...