Publications

(sorted by date, most recent first)

• Kobrock, K., Ohmer, X., Bruni, E., and Gotzner, N. (2024). Context Shapes Emergent Communication about Concepts at Different Levels of Abstraction. Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (accepted)

• Ackermann, L. and Ohmer, X. (2024). On the Relationship between Skill Neurons and Robustness in Prompt Tuning. Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (accepted) (Paper)

• Jassim, S., Holubar, M., Richter, A., Wolff, C., Ohmer, X., and Bruni, E. (2023). GRASP: A novel benchmark for evaluating language GRounding And Situated Physics understanding in multimodal language models. ArXiv Preprint, arXiv:2311.09048 (Paper)

• Ohmer, X., Bruni, E., and Hupkes, D. (2023). Separating form and meaning: Using self-consistency to quantify task understanding across multiple senses. ArXiv Preprint, arXiv:2305.11662 (Paper)

• Ohmer, X. and Cuskley, C. (2023). Communication games: Modeling language evolution through dyadic agent interactions. PsyArXiv Preprint, 10.31234/osf.io/mqzgr (Paper)

• Ohmer, X., Marino, M., Franke, M., and König, P. (2022). Mutual influence between language and perception in multi-agent communication games. PLOS Computational Biology, 18(10), e1010658. (Paper)

• Ohmer, X., Duda, M., and Bruni, E. (2022). Emergence of hierarchical reference systems in multi-agent communication. Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 5689-5706. (Paper)

• Ohmer, X., Franke, M., and König, P. (2022). Mutual Exclusivity in Pragmatic Agents. Cognitive Science, 46, e13069. (Paper)

• Ohmer, X., Marino, M., König, P., and Franke, M. (2021). Why and how to study the impact of perception on language emergence in artificial agents. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci), 1139-1145. (Paper)

• Ohmer, X., König, P., and Franke, M. (2020). Reinforcement of semantic representations in pragmatic agents leads to the emergence of a mutual exclusivity bias. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci), 1779-1785. (Paper)

• Köster, M., Ohmer, X., Nguyen, T. D., and Kärtner, J. (2016). Infants understand others’ needs. Psychological Science 27(4), 542-548. (Paper)