READ ME File For 'Dataset in support of the thesis 'Temporal dynamics in emergent communication''

Dataset DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/D3888

ReadMe Author: Olaf Lipinski, University of Southampton 0000-0002-2023-7617

This dataset supports the thesis entitled "Temporal Dynamics in Emergent Communication"
AWARDED BY: Univeristy of Southampton
DATE OF AWARD: 2025

DESCRIPTION OF THE DATA

Instructions for how to run each codebase are in separate READMEs in each zip file.

The code bases present are:

Code for the Temporal Progression Games - accompanying our paper "Speaking Your Language: Spatial Relationships in Interpretable Emergent Communication". This code allows for analysis of spatial relationships in emergent communication. 

Code for the Temporal Referential Games - accompanying our paper "It’s About Time: Temporal References in Emergent Communication". This code provides a new architecture and dataset for Emergent Communication research. We introduce a variant of the well-known referential games, where we include a temporal aspect to the communication. This is done through skewing the target distribution to include target repetitions at random intervals. Through this we aim to study how and when temporal references can emerge between agents.

Code for the Emergent Communication in Werewolf - accompanying our paper "Emergent Password Signalling in the Game of Werewolf". This code analyses the impact of communication time and voting plurality in Emergent Communication in the game of Werewolf.

Code for emlangkit - A toolkit that aims to collect all metrics currently used in emergent communication research into one place. The usage should be convenient and the inputs should be standardised, to ease adoption and spread of these metrics.


Licence:
GNU GPL, MIT

Related projects/Funders:
MINDS CDT

Related publications:

1. Olaf Lipinski, Adam J. Sobey, Federico Cerutti, and Timothy J. Norman. Speaking Your
Language: Spatial Relationships in Interpretable Emergent Communication. In Neural
Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), December 2024

2. Olaf Lipinski, Adam J. Sobey, Federico Cerutti, and Timothy J. Norman. It’s About Time:
Temporal References in Emergent Communication. In arXiv:2310.06555 (Under review),
October 2023

3. Olaf Lipinski, Adam J. Sobey, Federico Cerutti, and Timothy J. Norman. Emergent Password
Signalling in the Game of Werewolf. In Emergent Communication Workshop at ICLR 2022,
April 2022


Date that the file was created: February, 2025