--- title: "Brenden M. Lake — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Brenden M. Lake, Princeton University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2018–2024), h-index 25 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/brenden-m-lake/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/brenden-m-lake/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Brenden M. Lake # Brenden M. Lake Brenden M. Lake has 2 papers in our library, in 2018–2024; often with [Marco Baroni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marco-baroni/), [Wentao Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wentao-wang/). 2 papers in our library · 2018–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5011713946) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8959-3401) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q125904967) · [**h-index 25**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5011713946) · [157 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5011713946) · [7,632 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5011713946&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/brenden-m-lake/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 225 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/brenden-m-lake/cited-by/) · [6 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6014](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/61/#star-6014) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Brenden+M.+Lake) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Brenden+M.+Lake) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Brenden+M.+Lake) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Brenden+M.+Lake) ## Affiliations [🎓**Princeton University** Princeton · United States 2025–2026 · 13 papersEmployment · Associate Professor, Departments of Computer Science and Psychology*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/princeton-university/) · [🎓**New York University** New York · United States 2015–2025 · 70 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/new-york-university/) · [🏢**Meta** Menlo Park · United States 2018–2020 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/meta/) · [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 2008–2009 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Developmental and Educational Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/developmental-and-educational-psychology/) · [Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/brenden-m-lake/year/2024/) ### 2010s [**2018** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/brenden-m-lake/year/2018/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Rearranging the Familiar: Testing Compositional Generalization in Recurrent Networks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/loula-2018-rearranging-familiar-testing-compositional-generalization/)** *(2018 · 160 citations)* The paper asks whether recurrent seq2seq models can generalize systematically by recombining words they already know well, as opposed to learning a brand-new word. 2. **[A systematic investigation of learnability from single child linguistic input](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qin-2024-systematic-investigation-learnability-single-child/)** *(2024 · 5 citations)* Modern language models learn from vastly more text than a child hears, and that text is very different from speech addressed to children. ## All works 8 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Human-level concept learning through probabilistic program induction ↗](https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aab3050) Science 350(6266):1332–1338 · no summary yet**Brenden M. Lake, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Joshua B. Tenenbaum*2015 · 2,959 citations* 2. **[Rearranging the Familiar: Testing Compositional Generalization in Recurrent Networks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/loula-2018-rearranging-familiar-testing-compositional-generalization/) [EMNLP Workshop BlackboxNLP: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp-workshop-blackboxnlp-analyzing-and-interpreting-neural-networks-for-nlp/)**João Loula, Marco Baroni, Brenden Lake*2018 · 160 citations* 3. **[Deep neural networks predict category typicality ratings for images ↗](https://openalex.org/W2404596811) no summary yet**Brenden M. Lake et al.*2015 · 57 citations* 4. **[H-ARC: A Robust Estimate of Human Performance on the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus Benchmark ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.01374) arXiv:2409.01374 · no summary yet**Solim LeGris et al.*2024 · 12 citations* 5. **[The Omniglot challenge: a 3-year progress report ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.03477) arXiv:1902.03477 · no summary yet**Brenden M. Lake, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Joshua B. Tenenbaum*2019 · 8 citations* 6. [**A systematic investigation of learnability from single child linguistic input arXiv:2402.07899**Yulu Qin, Wentao Wang, Brenden M. Lake*2024 · 5 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qin-2024-systematic-investigation-learnability-single-child/) 7. **[Whither symbols in the era of advanced neural networks? ↗](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2026.02.003) Trends in Cognitive Sciences · no summary yet**Thomas L. Griffiths et al.*2026 · 2 citations* 8. **[Deep neural networks can learn generalizable same-different visual relations ↗](https://doi.org/10.32470/njlegbg) arXiv:2310.09612 · no summary yet**Alexa R. Tartaglini et al.*2023 · 2 citations* ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Marco Baroni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marco-baroni/) - [Wentao Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wentao-wang/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [EMNLP Workshop BlackboxNLP: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp-workshop-blackboxnlp-analyzing-and-interpreting-neural-networks-for-nlp/): [EMNLP Workshop BlackboxNLP: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp-workshop-blackboxnlp-analyzing-and-interpreting-neural-networks-for-nlp/2018/) - Science 350(6266):1332–1338 - Trends in Cognitive Sciences ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 225 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [23 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/brenden-m-lake/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026