14 December 2024, Meeting 220-222, Vancouver Convention Center, Canada
Contact Us:
language.gamification.workshop@gmail.com | đť•Ź @MLLanguageGames
Ludwig Wittgenstein, in his seminal work “Philosophical Investigations”, introduced the concept of “language games.” This framework views language as an adaptive system where words acquire meaning through use, emphasizing its social and interactive nature. Research in cognitive science reinforces this notion, highlighting that genuine language acquisition thrives on dynamic and context-driven interactions. Language emergence simulations further demonstrate the critical role of language transmission within a population of agents in shaping modern languages. Game theory experiments showcase the superiority of interactive self-play loops compared to traditional imitation-based models. Meanwhile, the core training paradigm in language processing remains purely based on supervised and preference losses and has barely changed over the past years. Besides, some limitations in LLMs, e.g., restricted planning abilities and insufficient personalization, suggest a potential deficiency in their training: the lack of interaction.
Inspired by these observations, our workshop explores the concept of Language Gamification to enable interactive LLM finetuning at scale. This training paradigm encompasses interactive training or evaluation loops that enable LLMs to bootstrap and ground their language through multi-agent interactions.
This workshop invites an exploration of Language Gamification through a diverse set of methodological perspectives and research backgrounds, offering a series of presentations and unique panel discussions, including:
Aaron Courville
Université de Montréal
Talk time TBD
Alane Suhr
University of California, Berkeley
Talk time TBD
Ida Momennejad
Microsoft Research NYC
Talk time TBD
Marc Lanctot
Google DeepMind
Talk time TBD
Nouha Dziri
Allen Institute for AI (AI2)
Talk time TBD
Tom Griffiths
Princeton University
Talk time TBD
Tom Schaul
Google DeepMind
Talk time TBD
Shangmin Guo
University of Edinburgh
Yi Ren
University of British Columbia
Elle Michelle Yang
University of Oxford
Mathieu Rita
Meta
Florian Strub
Cohere
Olivier Pietquin
Cohere
Kenny Smith
University of Edinburgh