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Discreteness and systematicity emerge to facilitate communication in a continuous signal-meaning space

Alicia Chen, Matthias Hofer, Moshe Poliak, Roger P. Levy, and Noga Zaslavsky
2024 EvoLang XV
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Human-Guided Complexity-Controlled Abstractions

Andi Peng, Mycal Tucker, Eoin M. Kenny, Noga Zaslavsky, Pulkit Agrawal, Julie Shah
2023 NeurIPS
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Evidence for a language-independent conceptual representation of pronominal referents

Mora Maldonado, Noga Zaslavsky, Jennifer Culbertson
2023 CogSci
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Toward human-like object naming in artificial neural systems

Tiwalayo Eisape, Roger Levy, Joshua Tenenbaum, Noga Zaslavsky
2020 BAICS @ ICLR
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Semantic categories of artifacts and animals reflect efficient coding

Noga Zaslavsky, Terry Regier, Naftali Tishby, Charles Kemp
2019 CogSci
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Communicative need in color naming

Noga Zaslavsky, Charles Kemp, Naftali Tishby, Terry Regier
2019 CNP
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Color naming reflects both perceptual structure and communicative need

Noga Zaslavsky, Charles Kemp, Naftali Tishby, Terry Regier
2019 topiCS
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Efficient compression in color naming and its evolution

ELSC Prize for Outstanding Publication
Noga Zaslavsky, Charles Kemp, Terry Regier, Naftali Tishby
2018 PNAS
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Efficient human-like semantic representations via the Information Bottleneck principle

Noga Zaslavsky, Charles Kemp, Terry Regier, Naftali Tishby
2017 CIAI @ NeurIPS
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