Nathaniel Imel

According to our database, Nathaniel Imel authored at least 9 papers between 2023 and 2026.

Collaborative distances:

• Dijkstra number of five.
• Erdős number of four.

2026

Agent-based imitation dynamics can yield efficiently compressed population-level vocabularies.

Nathaniel Imel, Richard Futrell, Michael Franke, Noga Zaslavsky

CoRR, March, 2026

On convexity and efficiency in semantic systems.

Nathaniel Imel, Noga Zaslavasky

CoRR, February, 2026

2025

Culturally transmitted color categories in LLMs reflect a learning bias toward efficient compression.

Nathaniel Imel, Noga Zaslavsky

CoRR, September, 2025

Density, asymmetry and citation dynamics in scientific literature.

Nathaniel Imel, Zachary Hafen

CoRR, June, 2025

Information Theory and Cognitive Science.

Noga Zaslavsky, Thomas A. Langlois, Nathaniel Imel, Clara Meister, Eleonora Gualdoni, Daniel Polani

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Bilinguals exhibit semantic convergence while maintaining near-optimal efficiency.

Maya Taliaferro, Nathaniel Imel, Esti Blanco-Elorrieta, Noga Zaslavsky

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Iterated language learning is shaped by a drive for optimizing lossy compression.

Nathaniel Imel, Jennifer Culbertson, Simon Kirby, Noga Zaslavsky

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

2024

Optimal compression in human concept learning.

Nathaniel Imel, Noga Zaslavsky

Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024

2023

The evolution of efficient compression in signaling games.

Nathaniel Imel

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023