- As someone without a linguistics background, it was at times difficult for me to follow some parts of the paper. For example, it’s not clear to me why we care about the speaker payoff and listener payoff (separate from listener accuracy), rather than just a means to obtain higher accuracy --- is it important that the behavior of the speaker at test time stay close to its behavior during training? - I think more emphasis could be placed on the fact that the proposed methods require the speaker to have a model (in fact, in most of the experiments it’s an exact model) of the listener’s conditional probability p(t|m), and vice-versa. - I would have liked more description of the Starcraft environment (potentially in an Appendix?)
- I would have liked more description of the Starcraft environment (potentially in an Appendix?)