Brenden M. Lake

5.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
33 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Brenden M. Lake is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Brenden M. Lake has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 13 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 11 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Brenden M. Lake's work include Multimodal Machine Learning Applications (8 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (7 papers) and Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning (7 papers). Brenden M. Lake is often cited by papers focused on Multimodal Machine Learning Applications (8 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (7 papers) and Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning (7 papers). Brenden M. Lake collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Israel. Brenden M. Lake's co-authors include Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Jason N. Gross, Marco Baroni, Josh Tenenbaum, A. Emin Orhan, Todd M. Gureckis, Tammy Kwan, Michael C. Frank and Molly Lewis and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cognition.

In The Last Decade

Brenden M. Lake

31 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

Human-level concept learning through probabilistic progra... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 2024 400 800 1.2k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Human-level concept learning through probabilistic program induction
    2015 1.4k citations Brenden M. Lake, Ruslan Salakhutdinov et al. profile →
  2. Grounded language acquisition through the eyes and ears of a single child
    2024 44 citations A. Emin Orhan, Brenden M. Lake et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Brenden M. Lake United States 13 1.4k 855 267 164 135 33 2.2k
Ashish Kapoor United States 37 1.8k 1.3× 1.6k 1.9× 338 1.3× 151 0.9× 44 0.3× 96 4.0k
Josh Tenenbaum United States 21 593 0.4× 604 0.7× 270 1.0× 331 2.0× 54 0.4× 76 1.6k
Sannyuya Liu China 29 852 0.6× 556 0.7× 74 0.3× 293 1.8× 76 0.6× 158 2.8k
Daphna Weinshall Israel 30 1.1k 0.8× 2.1k 2.4× 375 1.4× 101 0.6× 56 0.4× 119 3.4k
Tiago Ramalho Germany 6 3.1k 2.2× 1.6k 1.9× 294 1.1× 33 0.2× 250 1.9× 9 4.4k
German I. Parisi Germany 13 1.3k 0.9× 770 0.9× 183 0.7× 28 0.2× 109 0.8× 30 2.1k
Fu Jie Huang China 12 1.1k 0.8× 1.5k 1.7× 160 0.6× 24 0.1× 116 0.9× 21 2.6k
David Powers Australia 26 849 0.6× 500 0.6× 479 1.8× 107 0.7× 23 0.2× 167 2.4k
Charles Blundell United Kingdom 13 775 0.6× 269 0.3× 271 1.0× 35 0.2× 36 0.3× 24 1.6k
Shuang Xu China 27 575 0.4× 1.4k 1.6× 148 0.6× 50 0.3× 67 0.5× 149 2.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brenden M. Lake

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Feinman, Reuben, et al.. (2024). Compositional diversity in visual concept learning. Cognition. 244. 105711–105711. 3 indexed citations
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Orhan, A. Emin & Brenden M. Lake. (2024). Learning high-level visual representations from a child’s perspective without strong inductive biases. Nature Machine Intelligence. 6(3). 271–283. 13 indexed citations
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Lake, Brenden M. & Marco Baroni. (2023). Human-like systematic generalization through a meta-learning neural network. Nature. 623(7985). 115–121. 79 indexed citations
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Wang, Wentao, et al.. (2023). Finding Structure in One Child's Linguistic Experience. Cognitive Science. 47(6). e13305–e13305. 5 indexed citations
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Orhan, A. Emin, et al.. (2020). Self-supervised learning through the eyes of a child. Neural Information Processing Systems. 33. 9960–9971. 6 indexed citations
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Lewis, Molly, et al.. (2020). The role of developmental change and linguistic experience in the mutual exclusivity effect. Cognition. 198. 104191–104191. 39 indexed citations
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Andreas, Jacob, et al.. (2020). A Benchmark for Systematic Generalization in Grounded Language Understanding. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 33. 19861–19872. 9 indexed citations
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Lake, Brenden M.. (2019). The Omniglot challenge: a 3-year progress report. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 50 indexed citations
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Lake, Brenden M., et al.. (2018). Do People Ask Good Questions?. Computational Brain & Behavior. 1(1). 69–89. 24 indexed citations
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Lake, Brenden M., et al.. (2016). Searching large hypothesis spaces by asking questions. Cognitive Science. 1 indexed citations
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Lake, Brenden M., et al.. (2016). Asking and evaluating natural language questions. Cognitive Science. 5 indexed citations
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Lake, Brenden M., Wojciech Zaremba, Rob Fergus, & Todd M. Gureckis. (2015). Deep neural networks predict category typicality ratings for images. Cognitive Science. 33 indexed citations
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Lake, Brenden M., Chia-ying Lee, James Glass, & Joshua B. Tenenbaum. (2014). One-shot learning of generative speech concepts. Cognitive Science. 36(36). 23 indexed citations
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Lake, Brenden M., Ruslan Salakhutdinov, & Josh Tenenbaum. (2013). One-shot learning by inverting a compositional causal process. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 26. 2526–2534. 114 indexed citations
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Lake, Brenden M., Ruslan Salakhutdinov, & Joshua B. Tenenbaum. (2012). Concept learning as motor program induction: A large-scale empirical study. Cognitive Science. 34(34). 14 indexed citations
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Lake, Brenden M., Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Jason N. Gross, & Joshua B. Tenenbaum. (2011). One shot learning of simple visual concepts. Cognitive Science. 33(33). 275 indexed citations
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Lake, Brenden M. & James L. McClelland. (2011). Estimating the strength of unlabeled information during semi-supervised learning. Cognitive Science. 33(33). 9 indexed citations
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Lake, Brenden M. & Joshua B. Tenenbaum. (2010). Discovering Structure by Learning Sparse Graphs. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 32(32). 10 indexed citations
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Lake, Brenden M., Gautam K. Vallabha, & James L. McClelland. (2009). Modeling Unsupervised Perceptual Category Learning. 1(1). 35–43. 9 indexed citations
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Cottrell, Garrison W. & Brenden M. Lake. (2005). Age of acquisition in facial identification: A connectionist approach. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 27(27). 4 indexed citations

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