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cs.CV2025
Cross-modal Associations in Vision and Language Models: Revisiting the Bouba-Kiki Effect
Tom Kouwenhoven, Kiana Shahrasbi, Tessa Verhoef
Recent advances in multimodal models have raised questions about whether vision-and-language models (VLMs) integrate cross-modal information in ways that reflect human cognition. O…
cs.CL2025
Shaping Shared Languages: Human and Large Language Models' Inductive Biases in Emergent Communication
Tom Kouwenhoven, Max Peeperkorn, Roy de Kleijn +1
Languages are shaped by the inductive biases of their users. Using a classical referential game, we investigate how artificial languages evolve when optimised for inductive biases…