Toward More Human-Like AI Communication: A Review of Emergent Communication Research

N Brandizzi - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the recent shift towards human-centric AI, the need for machines to accurately use natural
language has become increasingly important. While a common approach to achieve this is …

The curious case of representational alignment: Unravelling visio-linguistic tasks in emergent communication

T Kouwenhoven, M Peeperkorn, B Van Dijk… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Natural language has the universal properties of being compositional and grounded in
reality. The emergence of linguistic properties is often investigated through simulations of …

What does Kiki look like? Cross-modal associations between speech sounds and visual shapes in vision-and-language models

T Verhoef, K Shahrasbi, T Kouwenhoven - arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.17974, 2024 - arxiv.org
Humans have clear cross-modal preferences when matching certain novel words to visual
shapes. Evidence suggests that these preferences play a prominent role in our linguistic …

On the direct alignment of latent spaces

Z Lähner, M Moeller - … of UniReps: the First Workshop on …, 2024 - proceedings.mlr.press
With the wide adaption of deep learning and pre-trained models rises the question of how to
effectively reuse existing latent spaces for new applications. One important question is how …