{
  "id": 6055,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.09521v1",
  "title": "Semantic Rate-Distortion for Bounded Multi-Agent Communication: Capacity-Derived Semantic Spaces and the Communication Cost of Alignment",
  "summary": "When two agents of different computational capacities interact with the same environment, they need not compress a common semantic alphabet differently; they can induce different semantic alphabets altogether. We show that the quotient POMDP $Q_{m,T}(M)$ - the unique coarsest abstraction consistent with an agent's capacity - serves as a capacity-derived semantic space for any bounded agent, and that communication between heterogeneous agents exhibits a sharp structural phase transition. Below a ",
  "authors": "Anthony T. Nixon",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "safety-alignment,agents-autonomy,environment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-04-10T17:41:38.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:32:11.185Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/6055",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.09521v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}