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20192024
most citedCompositional Languages Emerge in a Neural Iterated Learning Model

34 citations · 72 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.CL2024

Bias Amplification in Language Model Evolution: An Iterated Learning Perspective

Yi Ren, Shangmin Guo, Linlu Qiu +2

With the widespread adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs), the prevalence of iterative interactions among these models is anticipated to increase. Notably, recent advancements i…

cs.LG2024

DRED: Zero-Shot Transfer in Reinforcement Learning via Data-Regularised Environment Design

Samuel Garcin, James Doran, Shangmin Guo +2

Autonomous agents trained using deep reinforcement learning (RL) often lack the ability to successfully generalise to new environments, even when these environments share character…

cs.GT2024★ 2 cited

Economics Arena for Large Language Models

Shangmin Guo, Haoran Bu, Haochuan Wang +4

Large language models (LLMs) have been extensively used as the backbones for general-purpose agents, and some economics literature suggest that LLMs are capable of playing various…

cs.LG2024

lpNTK: Better Generalisation with Less Data via Sample Interaction During Learning

Shangmin Guo, Yi Ren, Stefano V. Albrecht +1

Although much research has been done on proposing new models or loss functions to improve the generalisation of artificial neural networks (ANNs), less attention has been directed…

cs.LG2023

How the level sampling process impacts zero-shot generalisation in deep reinforcement learning

Samuel Garcin, James Doran, Shangmin Guo +2

A key limitation preventing the wider adoption of autonomous agents trained via deep reinforcement learning (RL) is their limited ability to generalise to new environments, even wh…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

How to prepare your task head for finetuning

Yi Ren, Shangmin Guo, Wonho Bae +1

In deep learning, transferring information from a pretrained network to a downstream task by finetuning has many benefits. The choice of task head plays an important role in fine-t…

cs.MA2022★ 1 cited

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Agent Interaction

Ibrahim H. Ahmed, Cillian Brewitt, Ignacio Carlucho +14

The development of autonomous agents which can interact with other agents to accomplish a given task is a core area of research in artificial intelligence and machine learning. Tow…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

Smoothing Matters: Momentum Transformer for Domain Adaptive Semantic Segmentation

Runfa Chen, Yu Rong, Shangmin Guo +4

After the great success of Vision Transformer variants (ViTs) in computer vision, it has also demonstrated great potential in domain adaptive semantic segmentation. Unfortunately,…

stat.ML2022★ 5 cited

Better Supervisory Signals by Observing Learning Paths

Yi Ren, Shangmin Guo, Danica J. Sutherland

Better-supervised models might have better performance. In this paper, we first clarify what makes for good supervision for a classification problem, and then explain two existing…

cs.CL2021★ 2 cited

Expressivity of Emergent Language is a Trade-off between Contextual Complexity and Unpredictability

Shangmin Guo, Yi Ren, Kory Mathewson +3

Researchers are using deep learning models to explore the emergence of language in various language games, where agents interact and develop an emergent language to solve tasks. We…

cs.CL2020★ 4 cited

Inductive Bias and Language Expressivity in Emergent Communication

Shangmin Guo, Yi Ren, Agnieszka Słowik +1

Referential games and reconstruction games are the most common game types for studying emergent languages. We investigate how the type of the language game affects the emergent lan…

cs.CL2020★ 34 cited

Compositional Languages Emerge in a Neural Iterated Learning Model

Yi Ren, Shangmin Guo, Matthieu Labeau +2

The principle of compositionality, which enables natural language to represent complex concepts via a structured combination of simpler ones, allows us to convey an open-ended set…

cs.CL2019★ 3 cited

Emergence of Numeric Concepts in Multi-Agent Autonomous Communication

Shangmin Guo

With the rapid development of deep learning, most of current state-of-the-art techniques in natural langauge processing are based on deep learning models trained with argescaled st…

cs.CL2019★ 17 cited

The Emergence of Compositional Languages for Numeric Concepts Through Iterated Learning in Neural Agents

Shangmin Guo, Yi Ren, Serhii Havrylov +3

Since first introduced, computer simulation has been an increasingly important tool in evolutionary linguistics. Recently, with the development of deep learning techniques, researc…