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  • Computational Linguistics
  • Cognitive Science
  • Artificial Intelligence

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  • Human languages efficiently categorize semantic fields, balancing accuracy and complexity.
  • Artificial neural networks (ANNs) offer a model for studying emergent communication systems.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if ANNs trained on a discrimination task develop communication systems comparable to human language.
  • To explore the factors influencing the complexity and efficiency of emergent communication systems.

Main Methods:

  • Deep learning techniques were used to train ANNs on a color discrimination game.
  • Emergent communication systems were analyzed based on accuracy and complexity metrics.
  • The impact of discrete versus continuous communication was compared.

Main Results:

  • ANN-developed systems exhibited an accuracy/complexity distribution similar to human languages.
  • System variation correlated with the degree of discriminative need, analogous to human communities.
  • Discrete communication led to lower complexity and higher efficiency compared to continuous communication.

Conclusions:

  • Efficient semantic categorization is a general property of discrete communication systems.
  • The discrete nature of communication acts as a bottleneck, promoting low complexity and optimal efficiency.
  • ANN models provide insights into the fundamental principles of language evolution and efficiency.