Joshua B. Tenenbaum

73.9k total citations · 22 hit papers
413 papers, 34.1k citations indexed

About

Joshua B. Tenenbaum is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Joshua B. Tenenbaum has authored 413 papers receiving a total of 34.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 226 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 120 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 90 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Joshua B. Tenenbaum's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (107 papers), Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference (59 papers) and Language and cultural evolution (47 papers). Joshua B. Tenenbaum is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (107 papers), Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference (59 papers) and Language and cultural evolution (47 papers). Joshua B. Tenenbaum collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Joshua B. Tenenbaum's co-authors include Vin de Silva, John Langford, Thomas L. Griffiths, Charles Kemp, Noah D. Goodman, Mark Steyvers, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Brenden M. Lake, Fei Xu and Rebecca Saxe and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Joshua B. Tenenbaum

395 papers receiving 31.9k citations

Hit Papers

A Global Geometric Framework for Nonlinear Dimensionality... 2000 2026 2008 2017 2000 2015 2011 2005 2007 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
Joshua B. Tenenbaum United States 76 13.9k 9.2k 7.0k 6.4k 2.6k 413 34.1k
David E. Rumelhart United States 47 19.6k 1.4× 5.4k 0.6× 11.6k 1.7× 7.2k 1.1× 4.4k 1.7× 89 50.8k
Thomas L. Griffiths United States 69 12.1k 0.9× 2.0k 0.2× 5.5k 0.8× 4.8k 0.7× 2.8k 1.0× 394 25.7k
Stephen Grossberg United States 89 12.6k 0.9× 4.9k 0.5× 19.6k 2.8× 1.8k 0.3× 2.3k 0.9× 425 35.7k
Demis Hassabis United Kingdom 52 20.7k 1.5× 7.2k 0.8× 8.9k 1.3× 2.1k 0.3× 1.8k 0.7× 77 51.2k
James L. McClelland United States 89 14.7k 1.1× 2.7k 0.3× 29.0k 4.2× 17.9k 2.8× 9.5k 3.6× 267 53.9k
Jeffrey L. Elman United States 44 8.2k 0.6× 1.3k 0.1× 6.7k 1.0× 5.5k 0.8× 4.0k 1.5× 102 19.8k
Susan Dumais United States 75 18.7k 1.3× 5.4k 0.6× 2.0k 0.3× 1.4k 0.2× 1.4k 0.5× 236 35.7k
Alex Pentland United States 95 8.1k 0.6× 29.3k 3.2× 3.1k 0.5× 1.2k 0.2× 2.8k 1.1× 552 57.1k
Terrence J. Sejnowski United States 125 10.4k 0.7× 5.9k 0.6× 43.2k 6.2× 1.8k 0.3× 4.7k 1.8× 619 73.7k
Michael I. Jordan United States 117 48.1k 3.5× 19.3k 2.1× 8.6k 1.2× 1.2k 0.2× 1.7k 0.7× 556 96.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Joshua B. Tenenbaum

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Fields of papers citing papers by Joshua B. Tenenbaum

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joshua B. Tenenbaum

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zhi‐Xuan, Tan, et al.. (2024). Inferring the Goals of Communicating Agents from Actions and Instructions. Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium Series. 2(1). 26–33. 3 indexed citations
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Puig, Xavier, Tianmin Shu, Shuang Li, et al.. (2021). Watch-And-Help: A Challenge for Social Perception and Human-AI Collaboration. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations
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Zhi‐Xuan, Tan, et al.. (2020). Online Bayesian Goal Inference for Boundedly Rational Planning Agents. Neural Information Processing Systems. 33. 19238–19250. 1 indexed citations
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Tian, Yonglong, Xingyuan Sun, Kevin Ellis, et al.. (2019). Learning to Infer and Execute 3D Shape Programs. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 15 indexed citations
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Awad, Edmond, Sydney Levine, Max Kleiman‐Weiner, et al.. (2019). Drivers are blamed more than their automated cars when both make mistakes. Nature Human Behaviour. 4(2). 134–143. 78 indexed citations
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Jara‐Ettinger, Julian, et al.. (2018). Sensitivity to the Sampling Process Emerges From the Principle of Efficiency. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations
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Wu, Jiajun, et al.. (2018). Unsupervised Learning of Latent Physical Properties Using Perception-Prediction Networks.. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 497–507. 2 indexed citations
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Siegel, Max, et al.. (2017). Interpreting actions by attributing compositional desires.. Cognitive Science. 4 indexed citations
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Gerstenberg, Tobias, Matthew Peterson, Noah D. Goodman, David A. Lagnado, & Joshua B. Tenenbaum. (2017). Eye-Tracking Causality. Psychological Science. 28(12). 1731–1744. 57 indexed citations
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Zhao, Yibiao, et al.. (2016). Inferring human intent from video by sampling hierarchical plans. 1489–1496. 19 indexed citations
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Jara‐Ettinger, Julian, Laura Schulz, & Joshua B. Tenenbaum. (2015). The naïve utility calculus: Joint inferences about the costs and rewards of actions.. Cognitive Science. 3 indexed citations
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Lin, Dianhuan, et al.. (2014). Bias reformulation for one-shot function induction. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 12 indexed citations
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Jara‐Ettinger, Julian, Hyowon Gweon, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, & Laura Schulz. (2014). I’d do anything for a cookie (but I won’t do that): Children’s understanding of the costs and rewards underlying rational action. Cognitive Science. 36(36). 1 indexed citations
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Gweon, Hyowon, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, & Laura Schulz. (2009). What are you trying to tell me? A Bayesian model of how toddlers can simultaneously infer property extension and sampling processes. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 31(31). 1 indexed citations
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Roy, Daniel M., et al.. (2007). Discovering Syntactic Hierarchies. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 29(29).
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Goodman, Noah D., Joshua B. Tenenbaum, & Michael J. Black. (2007). A Bayesian Framework for Cross-Situational Word-Learning. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 20. 457–464. 52 indexed citations
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Kemp, Charles, Lauren Schmidt, & Joshua B. Tenenbaum. (2006). Nonsense and Sensibility: Inferring Unseen Possibilities. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 28(28). 4 indexed citations
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Griffiths, Thomas L. & Joshua B. Tenenbaum. (2003). From Algorithmic to Subjective Randomness. Neural Information Processing Systems. 16. 953–960. 16 indexed citations
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Griffiths, Thomas L. & Joshua B. Tenenbaum. (2000). Teacakes, Trains, Taxicabs and Toxins: A Bayesian Account of Predicting the Future. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 22(22). 6 indexed citations
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Tenenbaum, Joshua B.. (1995). Learning the Structure of Similarity. Neural Information Processing Systems. 8. 3–9. 36 indexed citations

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