Emergent communication and learning pressures in language models: a language evolution perspective

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14427v1
• Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 14:33:34 GMT
• Title: Emergent communication and learning pressures in language models: a language evolution perspective
• Authors: Lukas Galke, Limor Raviv,
• Abstract summary: We find that the emergent communication literature excels at designing and adapting models to recover initially absent linguistic phenomena of natural languages. We identify key pressures that have recovered initially absent human patterns in emergent communication models. This may serve as inspiration for how to design language models for language acquisition and language evolution research.
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• Abstract: Language models and humans are two types of learning systems. Finding or facilitating commonalities could enable major breakthroughs in our understanding of the acquisition and evolution of language. Many theories of language evolution rely heavily on learning biases and learning pressures. Yet due to substantial differences in learning pressures, it is questionable whether the similarity between humans and machines is sufficient for insights to carry over and to be worth testing with human participants. Here, we review the emergent communication literature, a subfield of multi-agent reinforcement learning, from a language evolution perspective. We find that the emergent communication literature excels at designing and adapting models to recover initially absent linguistic phenomena of natural languages. Based on a short literature review, we identify key pressures that have recovered initially absent human patterns in emergent communication models: communicative success, efficiency, learnability, and other psycho-/sociolinguistic factors. We argue that this may serve as inspiration for how to design language models for language acquisition and language evolution research.

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