An Inductive Bias for Emergent Communication in a Continuous Setting
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Proceedings of the Northern Lights Deep Learning Workshop. 2024, 233Abstract
We study emergent communication in a multi-agent reinforcement learning setting, where the agents solve cooperative tasks and have access to a communication channel. The communication channel may consist of either discrete symbols or continuous variables. We introduce an inductive bias to aid with the emergence of good communication protocols for continuous messages, and we look at the effect this type of inductive bias has for continuous and discrete messages in itself or when used in combination with reinforcement learning. We demonstrate that this type of inductive bias has a beneficial effect on the communication protocols learnt in two toy environments, Negotiation and Sequence Guess.