Connectionists: [CFP] 2nd NIPS Workshop on Emergent Communication

[Kyunghyun Cho]

2nd NIPS Workshop on Emergent Communication [EmComm2]

Submission via https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/EMECOMNIPS2018
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/emecom2018/
Sat Dec 8th 08:45 AM -- 06:30 PM, Montreal, Canada

Mission Statement: To bring together a variety of researchers from a range
of different backgrounds interested in the topic of (emergent)
communication.
Abstract

Communication is one of the most impressive human abilities. The question
of how communication arises has been studied for many decades, if not
centuries. However, due to computational and representational limitations,
past work was restricted to low dimensional, simple observation spaces.
With the rise of deep reinforcement learning, this question can now be
studied in complex multi-agent settings, which has led to flourishing
activities in the area over the past years. In these settings, agents learn
to communicate in grounded multimodal environments using rich, emergent
communication protocols.

Last year’s workshop was a great success, but there still are many open
questions. For example, most work in the field so far has focused on fully
cooperative settings, while the more challenging and realistic use cases
come from situations where agents do not have fully aligned interests and
goals. How can we have credible communication amongst self-interested
agents where each agent maximizes its own individual rewards rather than a
joint team reward? This is a new computational modeling challenge for the
community.

Due to the recent exploding popularity of machine learning, there is a
tendency for researchers to have an arguably too narrow focus only on
recent machine learning-based approaches. This often leads to reinventing
the wheel. In order to avoid this issue and broaden our view on emergent
communication, we take an interdisciplinary approach to emergent
communication by inviting scientists from a broad set of disciplines,
including machine learning, game theory, evolutionary biology, linguistics,
cognitive science and programming languages, while focusing on the question
of communication and emergent language.
Call for Papers

We invite submissions in the following and related areas:

   - deep multi-agent learning
   - language evolution
   - multi-agent communication
   - strategic communication
   - modeling of other agents
   - understanding emergent protocols
   - grounding emergent protocols
   - Any other area related to the subject of the workshop

All accepted submissions will be made available on the workshop website and
included in the poster session during the workshop. As this does not
constitute an archival publication or formal proceedings, authors are free
to submit and publish their extended work elsewhere.

Since NIPS sold out early, authors of accepted papers at the workshop may
be able to register for the workshop through access to a dedicated pool of
tickets.
Submission Format

An abstract should be 2-4 pages of content in the NIPS format, with an
unlimited number of pages for references. We also encourage the submission
of a recently published, accepted or submitted paper, without any page
limit.
Submissions Link

Please submit your manuscripts via:
*https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/EMECOM2018*
<https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/EMECOM2018>
Important Dates

Submission Deadline: Nov 2 2018
Author Notification: Nov 18 2018
Workshop: Dec 8 2018
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