David M. Blei

76.2k total citations · 20 hit papers
187 papers, 44.1k citations indexed

About

David M. Blei is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and Probability and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, David M. Blei has authored 187 papers receiving a total of 44.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 142 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 51 papers in Statistics and Probability and 23 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in David M. Blei's work include Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (68 papers), Topic Modeling (41 papers) and Statistical Methods and Inference (36 papers). David M. Blei is often cited by papers focused on Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (68 papers), Topic Modeling (41 papers) and Statistical Methods and Inference (36 papers). David M. Blei collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and France. David M. Blei's co-authors include Michael I. Jordan, Andrew Y. Ng, John Lafferty, Chong Wang, Matthew J. Beal, Yee Whye Teh, Matthew D. Hoffman, Jonathan Chang, Jon McAuliffe and Sean Gerrish and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Genetics and Journal of the American Statistical Association.

In The Last Decade

David M. Blei

181 papers receiving 41.2k citations

Hit Papers

Latent dirichlet allocation 2003 2026 2010 2018 2003 2012 2006 2006 2009 5.0k 10.0k 15.0k

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David M. Blei United States 63 26.0k 9.5k 7.2k 5.4k 4.2k 187 44.1k
Andrew Y. Ng United States 88 39.6k 1.5× 8.4k 0.9× 21.0k 2.9× 4.0k 0.8× 2.6k 0.6× 208 68.8k
Michael I. Jordan United States 117 48.1k 1.9× 11.6k 1.2× 19.3k 2.7× 6.1k 1.1× 2.9k 0.7× 556 96.0k
Christopher D. Manning United States 100 69.8k 2.7× 13.8k 1.4× 14.8k 2.0× 2.4k 0.4× 4.1k 1.0× 436 88.9k
Susan Dumais United States 75 18.7k 0.7× 13.0k 1.4× 5.4k 0.8× 1.7k 0.3× 1.8k 0.4× 236 35.7k
Jure Leskovec United States 90 20.8k 0.8× 9.2k 1.0× 5.8k 0.8× 22.2k 4.1× 5.2k 1.2× 275 49.6k
Tomáš Mikolov United States 25 22.3k 0.9× 4.7k 0.5× 5.2k 0.7× 1.1k 0.2× 1.4k 0.3× 41 28.8k
Bing Liu United States 69 23.5k 0.9× 10.8k 1.1× 2.6k 0.4× 1.6k 0.3× 4.0k 1.0× 232 31.5k
Jon Kleinberg United States 82 14.3k 0.6× 10.4k 1.1× 3.7k 0.5× 21.0k 3.9× 5.9k 1.4× 304 46.0k
Erik Cambria Singapore 89 23.1k 0.9× 3.7k 0.4× 3.6k 0.5× 1.3k 0.2× 2.5k 0.6× 454 31.1k
John Lafferty United States 54 17.5k 0.7× 5.3k 0.6× 5.9k 0.8× 1.5k 0.3× 601 0.1× 178 26.1k

Countries citing papers authored by David M. Blei

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Fields of papers citing papers by David M. Blei

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David M. Blei

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of David M. Blei. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of David M. Blei based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with David M. Blei. David M. Blei is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Athey, Susan, et al.. (2025). Estimating wage disparities using foundation models. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(22). e2427298122–e2427298122. 1 indexed citations
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Levitin, Hanna Mendes, Jinzhou Yuan, Yim Ling Cheng, et al.. (2019). De novo gene signature identification from single‐cell RNA ‐seq with hierarchical Poisson factorization. Molecular Systems Biology. 15(2). e8557–e8557. 43 indexed citations
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Tansey, Wesley, et al.. (2019). Relational Dose-Response Modeling for Cancer Drug Studies. arXiv (Cornell University).
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Tran, Dustin, Matthew D. Hoffman, Rif A. Saurous, et al.. (2017). Deep Probabilistic Programming. International Conference on Learning Representations. 9 indexed citations
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Naesseth, Christian A., Francisco J. R. Ruiz, Scott W. Linderman, & David M. Blei. (2016). Rejection Sampling Variational Inference. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Zhou, Mingyuan, et al.. (2016). Bayesian Poisson tucker decomposition for learning the structure of international relations. International Conference on Machine Learning. 2810–2819. 9 indexed citations
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Ranganath, Rajesh, Adler Perotte, Noémie Elhadad, & David M. Blei. (2015). The survival filter: joint survival analysis with a latent time series. Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence. 742–751. 12 indexed citations
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Hoffman, Matthew D., David M. Blei, Chong Wang, & John Paisley. (2013). Stochastic variational inference. Journal of Machine Learning Research. 14(1). 1303–1347. 669 indexed citations breakdown →
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Paisley, John, David M. Blei, & Michael I. Jordan. (2012). Stick-Breaking Beta Processes and the Poisson Process. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics. 850–858. 13 indexed citations
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Wang, Chong & David M. Blei. (2012). Truncation-free Online Variational Inference for Bayesian Nonparametric Models. Neural Information Processing Systems. 25. 413–421. 24 indexed citations
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Mimno, David & David M. Blei. (2011). Bayesian Checking for Topic Models. Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. 227–237. 37 indexed citations
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Norouzi, Mohammad & David M. Blei. (2011). Minimal Loss Hashing for Compact Binary Codes. International Conference on Machine Learning. 353–360. 467 indexed citations breakdown →
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Carin, Lawrence, David M. Blei, & John Paisley. (2011). Variational Inference for Stick-Breaking Beta Process Priors. International Conference on Machine Learning. 889–896. 18 indexed citations
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Kostina, Victoria, et al.. (2010). Exploiting Covariate Similarity in Sparse Regression via the Pairwise Elastic Net. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics. 477–484. 21 indexed citations
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Chang, Jonathan, Sean Gerrish, Chong Wang, Jordan Boyd‐Graber, & David M. Blei. (2009). Reading Tea Leaves: How Humans Interpret Topic Models. Neural Information Processing Systems. 22. 288–296. 1239 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wang, Chong & David M. Blei. (2009). Variational Inference for the Nested Chinese Restaurant Process. Neural Information Processing Systems. 22. 1990–1998. 38 indexed citations
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Blei, David M., Thomas L. Griffiths, & Michael I. Jordan. (2007). The nested Chinese restaurant process and Bayesian inference of topic hierarchies. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Blei, David M., et al.. (2007). Admixtures of latent blocks with application to protein interaction networks. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Blei, David M., Andrew Y. Ng, & Michael I. Jordan. (2003). Latent dirichlet allocation. Journal of Machine Learning Research. 3. 993–1022. 18102 indexed citations breakdown →
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Griffiths, Thomas L., Michael I. Jordan, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, & David M. Blei. (2003). Hierarchical Topic Models and the Nested Chinese Restaurant Process. Neural Information Processing Systems. 16. 17–24. 593 indexed citations breakdown →

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