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 \begin{abstract}
- The natural emergence of symbolic languages with high compositionality has
+ The emergence of symbolic languages with high compositionality has
   attracted extensive attention from a broad range of communities. Existing
   studies achieve high compositionality through \emph{deliberately handcrafted}
   inductions (e.g., small vocabulary sizes, carefully constructed distractors, 
   and ease-of-teaching) in multi-agent learning, which are unnatural. 
   Yet, few studies investigate the emergence of symbolic language with high
-  compositionality  \emph{``naturally''}, i.e., without any deliberately handcrafted
+  compositionality \emph{naturally}, i.e., without any deliberately handcrafted
   inductions. 
   
   In this paper, we are the first to successfully achieve high compositional symbolic
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   inductions, we observe that the agent capacity plays a key role in
   compositionality. We further reveal and characterize the quantitative relationship
   between the agent capacity and the compositionality of symbolic language both
-  theoretically and experimentally. The theoretical analysis is built on the MSC
-  (Markov Series Channel) model for the language transmission process and a
-  novel mutual information-based metric for the compositionality. The
-  experiments are conducted on a listener-speaker referential game framework
-  with eliminated external environment factors. Both theoretical analysis and
+  theoretically and experimentally.
+  %The theoretical analysis is built on the MSC
+  %(Markov Series Channel) model for the language transmission process and a
+  %novel mutual information-based metric for the compositionality.
+  %The
+  %experiments are conducted on a listener-speaker referential game framework
+  %with eliminated external environment factors.
+  Both theoretical analysis and
   experimental results lead to a counter-intuitive conclusion that lower agent
   capacity facilitates the emergence of symbolic language with higher
   compositionality. \note{Based on our conclusion, we can generate higher