Kenny Smith

According to our database, Kenny Smith authored at least 78 papers between 2001 and 2024.

Collaborative distances:

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2024

Representations as Language: An Information-Theoretic Framework for Interpretability.

Henry Conklin, Kenny Smith

CoRR, 2024

Sample Relationship from Learning Dynamics Matters for Generalisation.

Shangmin Guo, Yi Ren, Stefano V. Albrecht, Kenny Smith

CoRR, 2024

lpNTK: Better Generalisation with Less Data via Sample Interaction During Learning.

Shangmin Guo, Yi Ren, Stefano V. Albrecht, Kenny Smith

Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations, 2024

2023

Reliable identification of selection mechanisms in language change.

Juan Guerrero Montero, Andres Karjus, Kenny Smith, Richard A. Blythe

CoRR, 2023

Compositionality with Variation Reliably Emerges in Neural Networks.

Henry Conklin, Kenny Smith

Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations, 2023

Communicative efficiency is present in young children and becomes more adult-like with age.

Shira Tal, Kenny Smith, Inbal Arnon, Jennifer Culbertson

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

The Relationship Between Frequency and Irregularity in the Evolution of Linguistic Structure: An Experimental Study.

Kenny Smith, Clem Ashton, Helen Sims-Williams

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

Degree of heterogeneity in the contexts of language users mediates the cognitive-communicative trade-off in semantic categorization.

Vlad C. Nedelcu, Kenny Smith, Daniel Lassiter

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

2022

The Impact of Information Structure on the Emergence of Differential Object Marking: An Experimental Study.

Shira Tal, Kenny Smith, Jennifer Culbertson, Eitan Grossman, Inbal Arnon

Cogn. Sci., 2022

Expressivity of Emergent Languages is a Trade-off between Contextual Complexity and Unpredictability.

Shangmin Guo, Yi Ren, Kory Wallace Mathewson, Simon Kirby, Stefano V. Albrecht, Kenny Smith

Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Learning Representations, 2022

Agreement can facilitate learning of noun class systems.

Shira Tal, Kenny Smith, Jennifer Culbertson

Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

The complexity of a language is shaped by the communicative needs of its users and by the hierarchical nature of their social inferences.

Vlad C. Nedelcu, Kenny Smith

Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

Intertwining Generalization and Memorization.

Henry Coxe-Conklin, Kenny Smith

Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

An experimental study of semantic extension in a novel communication system.

Josephine Bowerman, Kenny Smith

Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

2021

Investigating the effects of i-complexity and e-complexity on the learnability of morphological systems.

Tamar Johnson, Kexin Gao, Kenny Smith, Hugh Rabagliati, Jennifer Culbertson

J. Lang. Model., 2021

Expressivity of Emergent Language is a Trade-off between Contextual Complexity and Unpredictability.

Shangmin Guo, Yi Ren, Kory W. Mathewson, Simon Kirby, Stefano V. Albrecht, Kenny Smith

CoRR, 2021

From partners to populations: A hierarchical Bayesian account of coordination and convention.

Robert X. D. Hawkins, Michael Franke, Michael C. Frank, Kenny Smith, Thomas L. Griffiths, Noah D. Goodman

CoRR, 2021

Speakers Align With Their Partner's Overspecification During Interaction.

Jia E. Loy, Kenny Smith

Cogn. Sci., 2021

Conceptual Similarity and Communicative Need Shape Colexification: An Experimental Study.

Andres Karjus, Richard A. Blythe, Simon Kirby, Tianyu Wang, Kenny Smith

Cogn. Sci., 2021

Meta-Learning to Compositionally Generalize.

Henry Conklin, Bailin Wang, Kenny Smith, Ivan Titov

Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2021

2020

Non-adjacent Dependency Learning in Humans and Other Animals .

Benjamin Wilson, Michelle Spierings, Andrea Ravignani, Jutta L. Mueller, Toben H. Mintz, Frank Wijnen, Anne van der Kant, Kenny Smith, Arnaud Rey

Top. Cogn. Sci., 2020

How Culture and Biology Interact to Shape Language and the Language Faculty.

Kenny Smith

Top. Cogn. Sci., 2020

Communicative need modulates competition in language change.

Andres Karjus, Richard A. Blythe, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith

CoRR, 2020

Simple kinship systems are more learnable.

Kenny Smith, Stella Frank, Sara Rolando, Simon Kirby, Jia E. Loy

Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

Rational After All: Changes in Probability Matching Behaviour Across Time in Humans and Monkeys.

Carmen Saldana, Nicolas Claidière, Joël Fagot, Kenny Smith

Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Perspective-taking in a language game.

Johanne Nedergaard, Kenny Smith

Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

Influence of partner behaviour on overspecification.

Jia E. Loy, Kenny Smith

Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

Learner dynamics in a model of wug inflection: integrating frequency and phonology.

Stella Frank, Kenny Smith, Christine F. Cuskley

Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

Modelling the Emergence of Positional Compositional Structure.

Henry Coxe-Conklin, Stella Frank, Robert Truswell, Kenny Smith

Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

2019

The Emergence of Compositional Languages for Numeric Concepts Through Iterated Learning in Neural Agents.

Shangmin Guo, Yi Ren, Serhii Havrylov, Stella Frank, Ivan Titov, Kenny Smith

CoRR, 2019

Interaction Promotes the Adaptation of Referential Conventions to the Communicative Context.

Lucía Castillo, Kenny Smith, Holly P. Branigan

Cogn. Sci., 2019

Acquiring Agglutinating and Fusional Languages Can Be Similarly Difficult: Evidence from an Adaptive Tracking Study.

Svenja Wagner, Kenny Smith, Jennifer Culbertson

Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

Cumulative cultural evolution in a non-copying task in children and Guinea baboons.

Carmen Saldana, Joël Fagot, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith, Nicolas Claidière

Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

Assessing Integrative Complexity as a Measure of Morphological Learning.

Tamar Johnson, Jennifer Culbertson, Hugh Rabagliati, Kenny Smith

Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

Language stability and change in age-dependent networks.

Stella Frank, Kenny Smith

Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

Experimental conditions affect how social cues guide the regularisation of unpredictable variation.

Olga Feher, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith

Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

From wugged to wug: Reverse generalisation of stems from novel past tense verbs.

Christine F. Cuskley, Stella Frank, Kenny Smith

Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

2018

Challenges in detecting evolutionary forces in language change using diachronic corpora.

Andres Karjus, Richard A. Blythe, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith

CoRR, 2018

Quantifying the dynamics of topical fluctuations in language.

Andres Karjus, Richard A. Blythe, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith

CoRR, 2018

Adult Learning and Language Simplification.

Mark Atkinson, Kenny Smith, Simon Kirby

Cogn. Sci., 2018

Emerging abstractions: Lexical conventions are shaped by communicative context.

Robert X. D. Hawkins, Michael Franke, Kenny Smith, Noah D. Goodman

Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018

A model of linguistic accommodation leading to language simplification.

Stella Frank, Kenny Smith

Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018

Do children privilege phonological cues in noun class learning?

Jennifer Culbertson, Hanna Jarvinen, Frances Haggarty, Kenny Smith

Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018

2017

The cognitive roots of regularization in language.

Vanessa Ferdinand, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith

CoRR, 2017

Minimal Requirements for the Emergence of Learned Signaling.

Matthew Spike, Kevin Stadler, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith

Cogn. Sci., 2017

The Cultural Evolution of Structured Languages in an Open-Ended, Continuous World.

John W. Carr, Kenny Smith, Hannah Cornish, Simon Kirby

Cogn. Sci., 2017

A model of cultural co-evolution of language and mindreading.

Marieke Woensdregt, Simon Kirby, Chris Cummins, Kenny Smith

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

The influence of word-order harmony on structural priming in artificial languages.

Kenny Smith, Olga Feher, Jennifer Culbertson

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

Is the strength of regularisation behaviour uniform across linguistic levels?

Carmen Saldana, Kenny Smith, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

The dot perspective task revisited: Evidence for directional effects.

Cathleen O'Grady, Thom Scott-Phillips, Suilin Lavelle, Kenny Smith

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

Iconicity vs. Systematicity in Artificial Language Learning.

Alan Ks Nielsen, Julia Simner, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

The cultural evolution of complex linguistic constructions in artificial sign languages.

Yasamin Motamedi, Marieke Schouwstra, Jennifer Culbertson, Kenny Smith, Simon Kirby

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

Language-users choose short words in predictive contexts in an artificial language task.

Jasmeen Kanwal, Kenny Smith, Jennifer Culbertson, Simon Kirby

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

The differential effects of transmission and interaction on linguistic variation.

Olga Feher, Kenny Smith

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

2016

Modelling the co-development of word learning and perspective-taking.

Marieke Woensdregt, Simon Kirby, Chris Cummins, Kenny Smith

Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2016

The Emergence of Conventions.

Robert X. D. Hawkins, Noah D. Goodman, Olga Feher, Kenny Smith, Robert L. Goldstone, Tom Griffiths

Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2016

The cultural evolution of cognition.

Sieghard Beller, Andrea Bender, Christine A. Caldwell, Morten H. Christiansen, Karenleigh A. Overmann, Kenny Smith

Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2016

2015

Word Meanings Evolve to Selectively Preserve Distinctions on Salient Dimensions.

Catriona Silvey, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith

Cogn. Sci., 2015

2014

Word learning under infinite uncertainty.

Richard A. Blythe, Andrew D. M. Smith, Kenny Smith

CoRR, 2014

Eliminating unpredictable linguistic variation through interaction.

Kenny Smith, Olga Feher, Nikolaus Ritt

Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2014

Social influences on the regularization of unpredictable linguistic variation.

Olga Feher, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith

Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2014

2013

Statistical mechanics of lexicon learning in an uncertain and nonuniform world

Rainer Reisenauer, Kenny Smith, Richard A. Blythe

CoRR, 2013

Learning, Feedback and Information in Self-Organizing Communication Systems.

Matthew Spike, Kevin Stadler, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith

Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

Linguistic structure is an evolutionary trade-off between simplicity and expressivity.

Kenny Smith, Monica Tamariz, Simon Kirby

Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

Communication Leads to the Emergence of Sub-optimal Category Structures.

Catriona Silvey, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith

Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

Regularization behavior in a non-linguistic domain.

Vanessa Ferdinand, Bill Thompson, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith

Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

Systems from Sequences: an Iterated Learning Account of the Emergence of Systematic Structure in a Non-Linguistic Task.

Hannah Cornish, Kenny Smith, Simon Kirby

Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

2011

Cross-Situational Learning: An Experimental Study of Word-Learning Mechanisms.

Kenny Smith, Andrew D. M. Smith, Richard A. Blythe

Cogn. Sci., 2011

2010

Learning Times for Large Lexicons Through Cross-Situational Learning.

Richard A. Blythe, Kenny Smith, Andrew D. M. Smith

Cogn. Sci., 2010

2006

Cross-Situational Learning: A Mathematical Approach.

Kenny Smith, Andrew D. M. Smith, Richard A. Blythe, Paul Vogt

Proceedings of the Symbol Grounding and Beyond, 2006

2003

Iterated Learning: A Framework for the Emergence of Language.

Kenny Smith, Simon Kirby, Henry Brighton

Artif. Life, 2003

Complex Systems in Language Evolution: the Cultural Emergence of Compositional Structure.

Kenny Smith, Henry Brighton, Simon Kirby

Adv. Complex Syst., 2003

Language Evolution in Populations: Extending the Iterated Learning Model.

Kenny Smith, James R. Hurford

Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life, 7th European Conference, 2003

Learning Biases for the Evolution of Linguistic Structure: An Associative Network Model.

Kenny Smith

Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life, 7th European Conference, 2003

2002

The cultural evolution of communication in a population of neural networks.

Kenny Smith

Connect. Sci., 2002

Natural Selection and Cultural Selection in the Evolution of Communication.

Kenny Smith

Adapt. Behav., 2002

Situated Cognition and the Role of Multi-agent Models in Explaining Language Structure.

Henry Brighton, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith

Proceedings of the Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: Adaptation and Multi-Agent Learning, 2002

2001

The Importance of Rapid Cultural Convergence in the Evolution of Learned Symbolic Communication.

Kenny Smith

Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life, 6th European Conference, 2001