% Key papers for Emergent communication in referential games (scime atlas, https://atlas.scime.ai). Authors are not included: add them from the paper pages.

@inproceedings{aaai2018_emergence_101249,
  title = {{Emergence of Grounded Compositional Language in Multi-Agent Populations}},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)},
  year = {2018},
  url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/11492},
}

@inproceedings{neurips2016_learning_55821,
  title = {{Learning Multiagent Communication with Backpropagation}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2016},
  url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2016/poster/7180},
}

@inproceedings{iclr2017_multi_28269,
  title = {{Multi-Agent Cooperation and the Emergence of (Natural) Language}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  year = {2017},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=Hk8N3Sclg},
}

@inproceedings{aaai2020_interactive_102987,
  title = {{Interactive Fiction Games: A Colossal Adventure}},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)},
  year = {2020},
  url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/6297},
}

@inproceedings{neurips2017_emergence_56293,
  title = {{Emergence of Language with Multi-agent Games: Learning to Communicate with Sequences of Symbols}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2017},
  url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2017/poster/9003},
}

@inproceedings{iclr2018_compositional_28704,
  title = {{Compositional Obverter Communication Learning from Raw Visual Input}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  year = {2018},
  url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2018/poster/265},
}

@inproceedings{iclr2018_emergent_28503,
  title = {{Emergent Translation in Multi-Agent Communication}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  year = {2018},
  url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2018/poster/219},
}

@inproceedings{iclr2018_emergent_28526,
  title = {{Emergent Communication through Negotiation}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  year = {2018},
  url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2018/poster/210},
}

@inproceedings{aaai2018_zero_105916,
  title = {{Zero-Resource Neural Machine Translation with Multi-Agent Communication Game}},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)},
  year = {2018},
  url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/11976},
}

@inproceedings{iclr2020_compositional_29492,
  title = {{Compositional languages emerge in a neural iterated learning model}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  year = {2020},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=HkePNpVKPB},
}

@inproceedings{iclr2018_emergence_28509,
  title = {{Emergence of Linguistic Communication from Referential Games with Symbolic and Pixel Input}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  year = {2018},
  url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2018/poster/138},
}

@inproceedings{iclr2020_on_29803,
  title = {{On the interaction between supervision and self-play in emergent communication}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  year = {2020},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=rJxGLlBtwH},
}

@inproceedings{iclr2018_emergent_28669,
  title = {{Emergent Communication in a Multi-Modal, Multi-Step Referential Game}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  year = {2018},
  url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2018/poster/212},
}

@inproceedings{neurips2019_ease_58181,
  title = {{Ease-of-Teaching and Language Structure from Emergent Communication}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2019},
  url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2019/poster/14470},
}

@inproceedings{neurips2021_catalytic_62145,
  title = {{Catalytic Role Of Noise And Necessity Of Inductive Biases In The Emergence Of Compositional Communication}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2021},
  url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2021/poster/27090},
}

@inproceedings{neurips2020_a_59292,
  title = {{A mathematical theory of cooperative communication}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2020},
  url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2020/poster/17452},
}

@inproceedings{neurips2021_learning_61468,
  title = {{Learning to Ground Multi-Agent Communication with Autoencoders}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2021},
  url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2021/poster/28003},
}

@inproceedings{iclr2020_augmenting_29910,
  title = {{Augmenting Non-Collaborative Dialog Systems with Explicit Semantic and Strategic Dialog History}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  year = {2020},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=ryxQuANKPB},
}

@inproceedings{aaai2020_generating_100769,
  title = {{Generating Interactive Worlds with Text}},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)},
  year = {2020},
  url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/5532},
}

@inproceedings{neurips2020_incorporating_60077,
  title = {{Incorporating Pragmatic Reasoning Communication into Emergent Language}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2020},
  url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2020/poster/18684},
}

@inproceedings{aaai2025_orpheus_10226,
  title = {{Orpheus: Engineering Multiagent Systems via Communicating Agents}},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/34478},
}

@inproceedings{neurips2024_language_71136,
  title = {{Language Grounded Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning with Human-interpretable Communication}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/96086},
}

@inproceedings{aaai2024_learning_6464,
  title = {{Learning Multi-Object Positional Relationships via Emergent Communication}},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/29685},
}

@inproceedings{cvpr2025_sketchtopia_27687,
  title = {{Sketchtopia: A Dataset and Foundational Agents for Benchmarking Asynchronous Multimodal Communication with Iconic Feedback}},
  booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://cvpr.thecvf.com/virtual/2025/poster/33662},
}

@inproceedings{neurips2024_speaking_74351,
  title = {{Speaking Your Language: Spatial Relationships in Interpretable Emergent Communication}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/93209},
}

@inproceedings{aaai2025_unsupervised_11188,
  title = {{Unsupervised Translation of Emergent Communication}},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/34489},
}

@inproceedings{icml2026_representational_55091,
  title = {{Representational Similarity and Model Behavior in Multi-Agent Interaction}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=vSKK7ffkfv},
}

@inproceedings{neurips2024_bridging_70311,
  title = {{Bridging semantics and pragmatics in information-theoretic emergent communication}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/96783},
}

@inproceedings{neurips2024_semantics_73759,
  title = {{Semantics and Spatiality of Emergent Communication}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/93744},
}

@inproceedings{iclr2025_ctd_81745,
  title = {{CtD: Composition through Decomposition in Emergent Communication}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2025/poster/30034},
}

@inproceedings{iclr2024_emergent_34490,
  title = {{Emergent Communication with Conversational Repair}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2024/poster/18584},
}

@inproceedings{icml2026_emergent_54975,
  title = {{Emergent Communication Under Misinformation}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=uSOl5K0PJY},
}