Athul Jacob

2 accepted papers

2024

Regularized Conventions: Equilibrium Computation as a Model of Pragmatic Reasoning

Athul Jacob, Gabriele Farina, Jacob Andreas

NAACL 2024long

We present a game-theoretic model of pragmatics that we call ReCo (for Regularized Conventions). This model formulates pragmatic communication as a game in which players are rewarded for communicating successfully and penalized for deviating from a shared, “default” semantics. As a result, players a…

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2017

Mode Regularized Generative Adversarial Networks

Tong Che, Yanran Li, Athul Jacob, Yoshua Bengio, Wenjie Li

ICLR 2017poster

Although Generative Adversarial Networks achieve state-of-the-art results on a variety of generative tasks, they are regarded as highly unstable and prone to miss modes. We argue that these bad behaviors of GANs are due to the very particular functional shape of the trained discriminators in high di…

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