GlossoGen: Emergent Language in Complex Multi-Agent LLM Interactions

Emergent Abilities in Large Language Models: A Survey

Emergent Abilities in Large Language Models: A Survey reviews how scaling LLMs leads to previously unseen capabilities such as advanced reasoning, in-context learning, coding, and problem-solving. The paper critically examines definitions, inconsistencies, and the conditions that foster these abilities, including scaling laws, task complexity, pre‑training loss, quantization, and prompting strategies. It also discusses the extension to Large Reasoning Models and highlights safety concerns like deception, manipulation, and reward hacking, calling for improved evaluation and governance.

When the Feature Pool Goes Algorithmic: Extending Mufwene's Ecology of Language Evolution to LLM-Mediated Exposure

arXiv:2608.21088v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mufwene's ecological model locates language evolution in competition among variants contributed by individual idiolects and in speakers' selection from...

Evolving language compositionality in a frequency-structured meaning space

arXiv:2607.29642v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The iterated learning model was introduced to investigate language evolution: the way in which the characteristic properties of human languages hav...

Semantic Projection for Continual Self-Evolution of Language Agents

arXiv:2609.36626v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language-model agents increasingly rely on persistent natural-language skills to adapt beyond their frozen model parameters. When a shared skill is rep...

Emergence of grounded compositional language in multi-agent populations

Self-Emergence Agent Architecture:Behavior-Inertia HMM, Reflexive Metacognition,and Social-Contrastive Self-Modeling

The paper introduces the Self‑Emergence Agent Architecture (SEAA), a framework that combines a Hidden Markov Model for behavioral inertia, a reflexive metacognition loop that updates the HMM, and a social environment where agents compare behaviors. This closed loop enables agents to develop distinct, stable personalities and social structures without external prompts. Experiments with both a language‑model‑free prototype and hosted LLMs demonstrate spontaneous symmetry breaking and the emergence of consensus hubs and outliers.

Empirical evidence of Large Language Model's influence on human spoken communication

arXiv:2409. 01754v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: From the printing press to social media, innovations in communication technology have repeatedly reshaped how ideas spread through human culture.

Payoff scaling shapes cooperation in LLM agents across languages

arXiv:2601. 19082v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents that negotiate, coordinate, and act on behalf of users.

Linguistic Productivity in Large Language Models: Models Coerce, but do not Preempt

The paper investigates how large language models (LLMs) handle two usage‑based grammatical strategies: coercion, where a mismatched word is reinterpreted to fit its context, and preemption, where a plausible structure is avoided because it never appears in expected contexts. Experiments across models of varying sizes show that larger LLMs successfully recognize and produce constructional productivity in coercive situations, even with novel words, but they fail to exhibit preemptive behavior, lacking the negative evidence that would guide avoidance of unconventional but semantically viable constructions. The authors argue that coercion is detectable due to its surprising, semantically motivated nature, whereas preemption lacks such a signature, leading to an asymmetry where models coerce but do not preempt.

Poor Man's Agentic Modeling: Simulating Large LLM-Agent Societies on a Laptop

arXiv:2608. 11215v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Simulating societies of many large language model (LLM) agents is expensive, yet the questions asked of such simulations are usually macroscopic: phase behaviour, stylised facts, and scaling with the number of agents $N$, not the cognition of any single agent.

Factors Influencing the Emergence of Dependency Length Minimization in Neural Agent Simulations

The study explores how neural agents develop dependency length minimization (DLM) in artificial languages using a recurrent neural network framework. By manipulating processing constraints such as listening noise, speaker capacity, and incremental sentence processing, the researchers find that DLM emerges only under incremental processing pressure, while other factors produce varied word‑order preferences. These results suggest that human cognitive processing limits may influence the emergence of DLM in language.

Language Unalignability: Why Some Concepts Resist Cross-Cultural Benchmark Evaluation

arXiv:2610.08303v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current evaluation of multilingual Large Language Models (LLMs) rests on an implicit Translation-Isomorphism Assumption (TIA): that semantic structures...