Kenny Smith

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2001-2024
Publications (10 Years): 59

Top Topics

Social Influence

Hierarchical Bayesian

Top Venues

Publications

Shangmin Guo, Yi Ren, Stefano V. Albrecht, Kenny Smith
lpNTK: Better Generalisation with Less Data via Sample Interaction During Learning. ICLR (2024)
Shangmin Guo, Yi Ren, Stefano V. Albrecht, Kenny Smith
Sample Relationship from Learning Dynamics Matters for Generalisation. CoRR (2024)
Henry Conklin, Kenny Smith
Representations as Language: An Information-Theoretic Framework for Interpretability. CoRR (2024)
Henry Conklin, Kenny Smith
Compositionality with Variation Reliably Emerges in Neural Networks. ICLR (2023)
Juan Guerrero Montero, Andres Karjus, Kenny Smith, Richard A. Blythe
Reliable identification of selection mechanisms in language change. CoRR (2023)
Kenny Smith, Clem Ashton, Helen Sims-Williams
The Relationship Between Frequency and Irregularity in the Evolution of Linguistic Structure: An Experimental Study. CogSci (2023)
Shira Tal, Kenny Smith, Inbal Arnon, Jennifer Culbertson
Communicative efficiency is present in young children and becomes more adult-like with age. CogSci (2023)
Vlad C. Nedelcu, Kenny Smith, Daniel Lassiter
Degree of heterogeneity in the contexts of language users mediates the cognitive-communicative trade-off in semantic categorization. CogSci (2023)
Shira Tal, Kenny Smith, Jennifer Culbertson, Eitan Grossman, Inbal Arnon
The Impact of Information Structure on the Emergence of Differential Object Marking: An Experimental Study. Cogn. Sci. 46 (3) (2022)
Josephine Bowerman, Kenny Smith
An experimental study of semantic extension in a novel communication system. CogSci (2022)
Vlad C. Nedelcu, Kenny Smith
The complexity of a language is shaped by the communicative needs of its users and by the hierarchical nature of their social inferences. CogSci (2022)
Shira Tal, Kenny Smith, Jennifer Culbertson
Agreement can facilitate learning of noun class systems. CogSci (2022)
Henry Coxe-Conklin, Kenny Smith
Intertwining Generalization and Memorization. CogSci (2022)
Shangmin Guo, Yi Ren, Kory Wallace Mathewson, Simon Kirby, Stefano V. Albrecht, Kenny Smith
Expressivity of Emergent Languages is a Trade-off between Contextual Complexity and Unpredictability. ICLR (2022)
Robert X. D. Hawkins, Michael Franke, Michael C. Frank, Kenny Smith, Thomas L. Griffiths, Noah D. Goodman
From partners to populations: A hierarchical Bayesian account of coordination and convention. CoRR (2021)
Henry Conklin, Bailin Wang, Kenny Smith, Ivan Titov
Meta-Learning to Compositionally Generalize. CoRR (2021)
Jia Loy, Kenny Smith
Speakers Align With Their Partner's Overspecification During Interaction. Cogn. Sci. 45 (12) (2021)
Andres Karjus, Richard A. Blythe, Simon Kirby, Tianyu Wang, Kenny Smith
Conceptual similarity and communicative need shape colexification: an experimental study. CoRR (2021)
Shangmin Guo, Yi Ren, Kory W. Mathewson, Simon Kirby, Stefano V. Albrecht, Kenny Smith
Expressivity of Emergent Language is a Trade-off between Contextual Complexity and Unpredictability. CoRR (2021)
Tamar Johnson, Kexin Gao, Kenny Smith, Hugh Rabagliati, Jennifer Culbertson
Investigating the effects of i-complexity and e-complexity on the learnability of morphological systems. J. Lang. Model. 9 (1) (2021)
Henry Conklin, Bailin Wang, Kenny Smith, Ivan Titov
Meta-Learning to Compositionally Generalize. ACL/IJCNLP (1) (2021)
Andres Karjus, Richard A. Blythe, Simon Kirby, Tianyu Wang, Kenny Smith
Conceptual Similarity and Communicative Need Shape Colexification: An Experimental Study. Cogn. Sci. 45 (9) (2021)
Stella Frank, Kenny Smith, Christine F. Cuskley
Learner dynamics in a model of wug inflection: integrating frequency and phonology. CogSci (2020)
Kenny Smith
How Culture and Biology Interact to Shape Language and the Language Faculty. Top. Cogn. Sci. 12 (2) (2020)
Andres Karjus, Richard A. Blythe, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
Communicative need modulates competition in language change. CoRR (2020)
Kenny Smith, Stella Frank, Sara Rolando, Simon Kirby, Jia Loy
Simple kinship systems are more learnable. CogSci (2020)
Carmen Saldana, Nicolas Claidière, Joël Fagot, Kenny Smith
Rational After All: Changes in Probability Matching Behaviour Across Time in Humans and Monkeys. CogSci (2020)
Benjamin Wilson, Michelle Spierings, Andrea Ravignani, Jutta L. Mueller, Toben H. Mintz, Frank Wijnen, Anne van der Kant, Kenny Smith, Arnaud Rey
Non-adjacent Dependency Learning in Humans and Other Animals . Top. Cogn. Sci. 12 (3) (2020)
Henry Coxe-Conklin, Stella Frank, Robert Truswell, Kenny Smith
Modelling the Emergence of Positional Compositional Structure. CogSci (2020)
Jia Loy, Kenny Smith
Influence of partner behaviour on overspecification. CogSci (2020)
Johanne Nedergaard, Kenny Smith
Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Perspective-taking in a language game. CogSci (2020)
Tamar Johnson, Jennifer Culbertson, Hugh Rabagliati, Kenny Smith
Assessing Integrative Complexity as a Measure of Morphological Learning. CogSci (2019)
Lucía Castillo, Kenny Smith, Holly P. Branigan
Interaction Promotes the Adaptation of Referential Conventions to the Communicative Context. Cogn. Sci. 43 (8) (2019)
Carmen Saldana, Joël Fagot, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith, Nicolas Claidière
Cumulative cultural evolution in a non-copying task in children and Guinea baboons. CogSci (2019)
Svenja Wagner, Kenny Smith, Jennifer Culbertson
Acquiring Agglutinating and Fusional Languages Can Be Similarly Difficult: Evidence from an Adaptive Tracking Study. CogSci (2019)
Christine F. Cuskley, Stella Frank, Kenny Smith
From wugged to wug: Reverse generalisation of stems from novel past tense verbs. CogSci (2019)
Olga Feher, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
Experimental conditions affect how social cues guide the regularisation of unpredictable variation. CogSci (2019)
Stella Frank, Kenny Smith
Language stability and change in age-dependent networks. CogSci (2019)
Shangmin Guo, Yi Ren, Serhii Havrylov, Stella Frank, Ivan Titov, Kenny Smith
The Emergence of Compositional Languages for Numeric Concepts Through Iterated Learning in Neural Agents. CoRR (2019)
Stella Frank, Kenny Smith
A model of linguistic accommodation leading to language simplification. CogSci (2018)
Jennifer Culbertson, Hanna Jarvinen, Frances Haggarty, Kenny Smith
Do children privilege phonological cues in noun class learning? CogSci (2018)
Mark Atkinson, Kenny Smith, Simon Kirby
Adult Learning and Language Simplification. Cogn. Sci. 42 (8) (2018)
Andres Karjus, Richard A. Blythe, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
Challenges in detecting evolutionary forces in language change using diachronic corpora. CoRR (2018)
Andres Karjus, Richard A. Blythe, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
Quantifying the dynamics of topical fluctuations in language. CoRR (2018)
Robert X. D. Hawkins, Michael Franke, Kenny Smith, Noah D. Goodman
Emerging abstractions: Lexical conventions are shaped by communicative context. CogSci (2018)
Matthew Spike, Kevin Stadler, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
Minimal Requirements for the Emergence of Learned Signaling. Cogn. Sci. 41 (3) (2017)
Olga Feher, Kenny Smith
The differential effects of transmission and interaction on linguistic variation. CogSci (2017)
Yasamin Motamedi, Marieke Schouwstra, Jennifer Culbertson, Kenny Smith, Simon Kirby
The cultural evolution of complex linguistic constructions in artificial sign languages. CogSci (2017)
Alan Ks Nielsen, Julia Simner, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
Iconicity vs. Systematicity in Artificial Language Learning. CogSci (2017)
Carmen Saldana, Kenny Smith, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson
Is the strength of regularisation behaviour uniform across linguistic levels? CogSci (2017)
Vanessa Ferdinand, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
The cognitive roots of regularization in language. CoRR (2017)
John W. Carr, Kenny Smith, Hannah Cornish, Simon Kirby
The Cultural Evolution of Structured Languages in an Open-Ended, Continuous World. Cogn. Sci. 41 (4) (2017)
Marieke Woensdregt, Simon Kirby, Chris Cummins, Kenny Smith
A model of cultural co-evolution of language and mindreading. CogSci (2017)
Jasmeen Kanwal, Kenny Smith, Jennifer Culbertson, Simon Kirby
Language-users choose short words in predictive contexts in an artificial language task. CogSci (2017)
Cathleen O'Grady, Thom Scott-Phillips, Suilin Lavelle, Kenny Smith
The dot perspective task revisited: Evidence for directional effects. CogSci (2017)
Kenny Smith, Olga Feher, Jennifer Culbertson
The influence of word-order harmony on structural priming in artificial languages. CogSci (2017)
Marieke Woensdregt, Simon Kirby, Chris Cummins, Kenny Smith
Modelling the co-development of word learning and perspective-taking. CogSci (2016)
Sieghard Beller, Andrea Bender, Christine A. Caldwell, Morten H. Christiansen, Karenleigh A. Overmann, Kenny Smith
The cultural evolution of cognition. CogSci (2016)
Robert X. D. Hawkins, Noah D. Goodman, Olga Feher, Kenny Smith, Robert L. Goldstone, Tom Griffiths
The Emergence of Conventions. CogSci (2016)
Catriona Silvey, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
Word Meanings Evolve to Selectively Preserve Distinctions on Salient Dimensions. Cogn. Sci. 39 (1) (2015)
Richard A. Blythe, Andrew D. M. Smith, Kenny Smith
Word learning under infinite uncertainty. CoRR (2014)
Kenny Smith, Olga Feher, Nikolaus Ritt
Eliminating unpredictable linguistic variation through interaction. CogSci (2014)
Olga Feher, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
Social influences on the regularization of unpredictable linguistic variation. CogSci (2014)
Matthew Spike, Kevin Stadler, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
Learning, Feedback and Information in Self-Organizing Communication Systems. CogSci (2013)
Vanessa Ferdinand, Bill Thompson, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
Regularization behavior in a non-linguistic domain. CogSci (2013)
Rainer Reisenauer, Kenny Smith, Richard A. Blythe
Statistical mechanics of lexicon learning in an uncertain and nonuniform world CoRR (2013)
Catriona Silvey, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
Communication Leads to the Emergence of Sub-optimal Category Structures. CogSci (2013)
Hannah Cornish, Kenny Smith, Simon Kirby
Systems from Sequences: an Iterated Learning Account of the Emergence of Systematic Structure in a Non-Linguistic Task. CogSci (2013)
Kenny Smith, Monica Tamariz, Simon Kirby
Linguistic structure is an evolutionary trade-off between simplicity and expressivity. CogSci (2013)
Kenny Smith, Andrew D. M. Smith, Richard A. Blythe
Cross-Situational Learning: An Experimental Study of Word-Learning Mechanisms. Cogn. Sci. 35 (3) (2011)
Richard A. Blythe, Kenny Smith, Andrew D. M. Smith
Learning Times for Large Lexicons Through Cross-Situational Learning. Cogn. Sci. 34 (4) (2010)
Kenny Smith, Andrew D. M. Smith, Richard A. Blythe, Paul Vogt
Cross-Situational Learning: A Mathematical Approach. EELC (2006)
Kenny Smith, James R. Hurford
Language Evolution in Populations: Extending the Iterated Learning Model. ECAL (2003)
Kenny Smith, Henry Brighton, Simon Kirby
Complex Systems in Language Evolution: the Cultural Emergence of Compositional Structure. Adv. Complex Syst. 6 (4) (2003)
Kenny Smith
Learning Biases for the Evolution of Linguistic Structure: An Associative Network Model. ECAL (2003)
Kenny Smith, Simon Kirby, Henry Brighton
Iterated Learning: A Framework for the Emergence of Language. Artif. Life 9 (4) (2003)
Kenny Smith
Natural Selection and Cultural Selection in the Evolution of Communication. Adapt. Behav. 10 (1) (2002)
Kenny Smith
The cultural evolution of communication in a population of neural networks. Connect. Sci. 14 (1) (2002)
Henry Brighton, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
Situated Cognition and the Role of Multi-agent Models in Explaining Language Structure. Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agents Systems (2002)
Kenny Smith
The Importance of Rapid Cultural Convergence in the Evolution of Learned Symbolic Communication. ECAL (2001)