Structural Inductive Biases in Emergent Communication

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In order to communicate, humans flatten a complex representation of ideas and their attributes into a single word or a sentence.

• We investigate the impact of representation learning in artificial agents by developing graph referential games.
• We empirically show that agents parametrized by graph neural networks develop a more compositional language compared to bag-of-words and sequence models, which allows them to systematically generalize to new combinations of familiar features.