Summary of Bidirectional Emergent Language in Situated Environments, by Cornelius Wolff et al.
Bidirectional Emergent Language in Situated Environments
by Cornelius Wolff, Julius Mayer, Elia Bruni, Xenia Ohmer
First submitted to arxiv on: 26 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary In this paper, researchers explore how language emerges in complex multi-agent systems by introducing two novel cooperative environments: Multi-Agent Pong and Collectors. These scenarios require agents to communicate effectively to achieve optimal performance. The study employs methods from explainable AI research to track the agents’ language channel use over time and finds that emerging communication is sparse, with meaningful messages generated only when coordination is necessary. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper looks at how language develops in groups of robots or artificial agents working together. It creates two new situations where these agents need to talk to each other to succeed. The researchers want to see if the agents can figure out a way to communicate effectively and find that they do, but only when it’s really important. |
