arXiv:2505.05863q-bio.PEcs.AI2025-05被引 2

用大模型模拟词语演化,看语言如何像生物一样竞争与适应。

Evolutionary ecology of words

  • 用LLM生成词并模拟代理间基于语义的博弈互动
  • 词在空间中竞争,胜者取代败者,形成多样生态位物种
  • 展现语言演化中的渐进与突变,适合对语言动力学感兴趣者

我们提出一种词语演化的生态模型,通过大型语言模型(LLMs)生成丰富语言表达,扩展进化博弈论与基于智能体的模型。每个代理携带由LLM生成的短词(或短语),在空间环境中移动;当相邻时,其互动结果由LLM根据词间关系决定,失败方的词被胜利方取代。词还可发生基于LLM输出的突变。初步实验假设“强动物物种”能存活,结果显示:从初始已知物种出发,许多新物种以渐进和间断平衡方式涌现。每轮试验均呈现独特演化路径,某类大型物种如陆生动物、海洋生物或灭绝物种成为主导,且这些物种生态特化,适应多种极端环境。长期大规模实验还展示了多样物种的共存与涌现。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

We propose a model for the evolutionary ecology of words as one attempt to extend evolutionary game theory and agent-based models by utilizing the rich linguistic expressions of Large Language Models (LLMs). Our model enables the emergence and evolution of diverse and infinite options for interactions among agents. Within the population, each agent possesses a short word (or phrase) generated by an LLM and moves within a spatial environment. When agents become adjacent, the outcome of their interaction is determined by the LLM based on the relationship between their words, with the loser's word being replaced by the winner's. Word mutations, also based on LLM outputs, may occur. We conducted preliminary experiments assuming that ``strong animal species" would survive. The results showed that from an initial population consisting of well-known species, many species emerged both gradually and in a punctuated equilibrium manner. Each trial demonstrated the unique evolution of diverse populations, with one type of large species becoming dominant, such as terrestrial animals, marine life, or extinct species, which were ecologically specialized and adapted ones across diverse extreme habitats. We also conducted a long-term experiment with a large population, demonstrating the emergence and coexistence of diverse species.

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