--- title: "David G. T. Barrett — author profile and papers · Reasoning" description: "David G. T. Barrett, Google DeepMind: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2017–2018), h-index 15 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-g-t-barrett/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-g-t-barrett/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / David G. T. Barrett # David G. T. Barrett David G. T. Barrett has 2 papers in our library, in 2017–2018, most of them on [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Adam Santoro](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adam-santoro/), [Timothy Lillicrap](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/timothy-lillicrap/), [Ari S. Morcos](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ari-s-morcos/). 2 papers in our library · 2017–2018 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5109502776) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0004-4678-6691) · [**h-index 15**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5109502776) · [48 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5109502776) · [1,710 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5109502776&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-g-t-barrett/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 281 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-g-t-barrett/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3135](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/32/#star-3135) 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=David+G.+T.+Barrett) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=David+G.+T.+Barrett) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=David+G.+T.+Barrett) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=David+G.+T.+Barrett) ## Affiliations [🏢**Google DeepMind** London · United Kingdom 2017–2026 · 13 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google-deepmind/) · [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2017–2021 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🔬**École Normale Supérieure - PSL** Paris · France 2012–2016 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/ecole-normale-superieure-psl/) · [🔬**Champalimaud Foundation** Lisbon · Portugal 2013–2016 · 4 papers](https://ror.org/03g001n57) · [🔬**Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives** Paris · France 2015–2016 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/02dg3n954) · [🎓**Trinity College Dublin** Dublin · Ireland 2007–2009 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/trinity-college-dublin/) · [🏢**Google** Dublin · Ireland Employment](https://ror.org/03nmefy27) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 4 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Reasoning · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2018** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-g-t-barrett/year/2018/) · [**2017** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-g-t-barrett/year/2017/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[A simple neural network module for relational reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/santoro-2017-simple-neural-network-module-relational/)** *(2017 · 632 citations)* Networks such as CNNs and MLPs often fail on questions that depend on how several entities relate. Symbolic systems handle relations well but are brittle and hard to ground in raw input. The authors propose the Relation Network (RN), a small, fully differentiable module. It takes a set of "objects," applies one… 2. **[Measuring abstract reasoning in neural networks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/barrett-2018-measuring-abstract-reasoning-neural-networks/)** *(2018 · 173 citations)* The authors from DeepMind examine whether neural networks truly learn to reason abstractly or merely exploit superficial statistical regularities in the data. ## Co-authors here 8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Adam Santoro](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adam-santoro/) ×2 - [Timothy Lillicrap](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/timothy-lillicrap/) ×2 - [Ari S. Morcos](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ari-s-morcos/) - [David Raposo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-raposo/) - [Felix Hill](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/felix-hill/) - [Mateusz Malinowski](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mateusz-malinowski/) - [Peter Battaglia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/peter-battaglia/) - [Razvan Pascanu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/razvan-pascanu/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 281 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [51 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-g-t-barrett/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026