AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · 7h ago6/10
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Drawing with Strangers: Population Scaling Drives Zero-Shot Mutual Intelligibility in Emergent Sketching
Researchers demonstrate that scaling training populations in emergent communication systems enables zero-shot mutual intelligibility (ZMI)—successful communication between independently trained agent groups with no prior exposure. The study uses emergent sketching as a communication modality, showing that larger populations develop universal visual-grounding strategies rather than closed-group dialects, with potential applications for building interoperable AI systems.