The Evolution of Compositionality in Signaling Games

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• 作者：Michael Franke
• 关键词：Signaling games ; Reinforcement learning ; Compositionality
• 刊名：Journal of Logic, Language and Information
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：25
• 期：3-4
• 页码：355-377
• 全文大小：692 KB
• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Philosophy
  Logic
  Semantics
  Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1572-9583
• 卷排序：25

文摘

Compositionality is a key design feature of human language: the meaning of complex expressions is, for the most part, systematically constructed from the meanings of its parts and their manner of composition. This paper demonstrates that rudimentary forms of compositional communicative behavior can emerge from a variant of reinforcement learning applied to signaling games. This helps explain how compositionality could have emerged gradually: if unsophisticated agents can evolve prevalent dispositions to communicate compositional-like, there is a direct evolutionary benefit for adaptations that exploit the systematicity in form-meaning mappings more rigorously.