John Lafferty

47.8k total citations · 12 hit papers
178 papers, 26.1k citations indexed

About

John Lafferty is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and Probability and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, John Lafferty has authored 178 papers receiving a total of 26.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 101 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 30 papers in Statistics and Probability and 24 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in John Lafferty's work include Topic Modeling (26 papers), Statistical Methods and Inference (25 papers) and Natural Language Processing Techniques (23 papers). John Lafferty is often cited by papers focused on Topic Modeling (26 papers), Statistical Methods and Inference (25 papers) and Natural Language Processing Techniques (23 papers). John Lafferty collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. John Lafferty's co-authors include Andrew McCallum, Fernando C. N. Pereira, ChengXiang Zhai, David M. Blei, Xiaojin Zhu, Zoubin Ghahramani, Adam Berger, V. Della Pietra, S. Della Pietra and Risi Kondor and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

In The Last Decade

John Lafferty

173 papers receiving 23.9k citations

Hit Papers

Conditional Random Fields: Probabilistic Models for Segme... 1990 2026 2002 2014 2001 2003 2006 1990 2004 2.5k 5.0k 7.5k

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
John Lafferty United States 54 17.5k 5.9k 5.3k 2.3k 2.1k 178 26.1k
Alexander J. Smola United States 42 11.8k 0.7× 8.8k 1.5× 2.5k 0.5× 2.1k 0.9× 2.6k 1.2× 100 25.2k
Andrew McCallum United States 62 21.9k 1.2× 5.5k 0.9× 4.9k 0.9× 2.9k 1.2× 2.0k 1.0× 221 29.6k
Yoram Singer Israel 50 16.3k 0.9× 8.1k 1.4× 3.2k 0.6× 1.6k 0.7× 2.1k 1.0× 123 24.8k
Thorsten Joachims United States 57 14.8k 0.8× 7.3k 1.2× 7.9k 1.5× 1.7k 0.7× 2.3k 1.1× 161 25.2k
Arthur Asuncion United States 13 13.5k 0.8× 4.7k 0.8× 2.7k 0.5× 858 0.4× 1.9k 0.9× 19 17.4k
Tom M. Mitchell United States 58 14.6k 0.8× 3.9k 0.7× 3.5k 0.6× 2.7k 1.1× 1.4k 0.6× 204 27.9k
David M. Blei United States 63 26.0k 1.5× 7.2k 1.2× 9.5k 1.8× 2.5k 1.1× 3.2k 1.5× 187 44.1k
William W. Cohen United States 51 11.9k 0.7× 3.3k 0.6× 5.0k 0.9× 1.2k 0.5× 1.7k 0.8× 276 18.1k
Inderjit S. Dhillon United States 63 8.4k 0.5× 5.8k 1.0× 1.9k 0.4× 1.5k 0.6× 2.2k 1.1× 214 16.6k
Susan Dumais United States 75 18.7k 1.1× 5.4k 0.9× 13.0k 2.4× 1.7k 0.7× 3.0k 1.4× 236 35.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Lafferty

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lin, Qi, Zifan Li, John Lafferty, & Ilker Yildirim. (2024). Images with harder-to-reconstruct visual representations leave stronger memory traces. Nature Human Behaviour. 8(7). 1309–1320. 4 indexed citations
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Fan, Zhou, et al.. (2019). Surfing: Iterative Optimization Over Incrementally Trained Deep Networks. Neural Information Processing Systems. 32. 15008–15017. 3 indexed citations
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Chatterjee, Sabyasachi, et al.. (2018). Prediction Rule Reshaping. International Conference on Machine Learning. 1014–1022.
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Kalaitzis, Freddie, John Lafferty, Neil D. Lawrence, & Shuheng Zhou. (2013). The Bigraphical Lasso. International Conference on Machine Learning. 28. 1229–1237. 3 indexed citations
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Gu, Haijie & John Lafferty. (2012). Sequential Nonparametric Regression. International Conference on Machine Learning. 387–394. 2 indexed citations
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Liu, Han, Larry Wasserman, & John Lafferty. (2012). Exponential Concentration for Mutual Information Estimation with Application to Forests. Neural Information Processing Systems. 25. 2537–2545. 11 indexed citations
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Verducci, Joseph S., et al.. (2007). Prediction and discovery : AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference, Machine and Statistical Learning: Prediction and Discovery, June 25-29, 2006, Snowbird, Utah. American Mathematical Society eBooks. 4 indexed citations
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Wasserman, Larry & John Lafferty. (2007). Statistical Analysis of Semi-Supervised Regression. Neural Information Processing Systems. 20. 801–808. 81 indexed citations
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Wainwright, Martin J., John Lafferty, & Pradeep Ravikumar. (2006). High-Dimensional Graphical Model Selection Using ell_1-Regularized Logistic Regression. Neural Information Processing Systems. 19. 1465–1472. 105 indexed citations
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Wasserman, Larry & John Lafferty. (2005). Rodeo: Sparse Nonparametric Regression in High Dimensions. Neural Information Processing Systems. 18. 707–714. 10 indexed citations
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Ravikumar, Pradeep & John Lafferty. (2004). Variational Chernoff bounds for graphical models. Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence. 462–469. 3 indexed citations
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Zhu, Xiaojin, John Lafferty, & Zoubin Ghahramani. (2003). Combining active learning and semi-supervised learning using Gaussian fields and harmonic functions. UCL Discovery (University College London). 317 indexed citations
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Zhu, Xiaojin, Zoubin Ghahramani, & John Lafferty. (2003). Semi-supervised learning using Gaussian fields and harmonic functions. UCL Discovery (University College London). 912–919. 2312 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lebanon, Guy & John Lafferty. (2002). Information Diffusion Kernels. Neural Information Processing Systems. 15. 391–398. 33 indexed citations
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Waye, John S., L. Walker, David H.K. Chui, John Lafferty, & Melanie Kirby. (2000). Homozygous HB Sallanches [α104(G11)CYS→TYR] in a Pakistani Child with HB H Disease. Hemoglobin. 24(4). 355–357. 10 indexed citations
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Lafferty, John & Daniel N. Rockmore. (2000). Codes and Iterative Decoding on Algebraic Expander Graphs. 8 indexed citations
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Brown, Peter, et al.. (1992). Analysis, statistical transfer, and synthesis in machine translation. 21 indexed citations
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Lafferty, John, et al.. (1992). A Direct Geometric Proof of the Lefschetz Fixed Point Formulas. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 329(2). 571–571. 7 indexed citations
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Jelinek, Frederick & John Lafferty. (1991). Computation of the probability of initial substring generation by stochastic context-free grammars. Computational Linguistics. 17(3). 315–323. 72 indexed citations

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