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In Press
Nonparametric Bayesian Models
Miller, K. T., Griffiths, T. L., & Jordan, M. I. (in press). The phylogenetic Indian buffet process: A non-exchangeable nonparametric prior for latent features.Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2008). (pdf)
Probabilistic Reasoning
Similarity and Categorization
Austerweil, J., & Griffiths, T. L. (in press). A rational analysis of confirmation with deterministic hypotheses. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
Statistical Models of Language
Cultural Evolution and Iterated Learning
Reali, F., & Griffiths, T. L. (in press). The evolution of frequency distributions: Relating regularization to inductive biases through iterated learning. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
Similarity and Categorization
Shi, L., Feldman, N. H., & Griffiths, T. L. (in press). Performing Bayesian inference with exemplar models. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
Probabilistic Reasoning
Williams, J. J., & Griffiths, T. L. (in press). Why are people bad at detecting randomness? Because it is hard. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
Nonparametric Bayesian Models
Cultural Evolution and Iterated Learning
Xu, J., Reali, F., & Griffiths, T. L. (in press). A formal analysis of cultural evolution by replacement. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
Similarity and Categorization
Sanborn, A. N., & Griffiths, T. L. (in press). Markov chain Monte Carlo with people. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 20. (pdf) (winner of the Outstanding Student Paper prize)
Statistical Models of Language
Cultural Evolution and Iterated Learning
Bouchard-Cote, A., Liang, P., Griffiths, T. L., & Klein, D. (in press). A probabilistic approach to language change. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 20. (pdf)
Similarity and Categorization
Nonparametric Bayesian Models
Navarro, D. J., & Griffiths, T. L. (in press). Latent features in similarity judgment: A nonparametric Bayesian approach. Neural Computation. (pdf)

2008
Similarity and Categorization
Cultural Evolution and Iterated Learning
Griffiths, T. L., Christian, B. R., & Kalish, M. L. (2008). Using category structures to test iterated learning as a method for revealing inductive biases. Cognitive Science, 32, 68-107. (doi)
Similarity and Categorization
Goodman, N. D., Tenenbaum, J. B., Feldman, J., & Griffiths, T. L. (2008). A rational analysis of rule-based concept learning. Cognitive Science, 32, 108-154. (doi)
Similarity and Categorization
Nonparametric Bayesian Models
Griffiths, T. L., Sanborn, A. N., Canini, K. R., & Navarro, D. J. (2008). Categorization as nonparametric Bayesian density estimation. In M. Oaksford and N. Chater (Eds.). The probabilistic mind: Prospects for rational models of cognition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (manuscript pdf)
Similarity and Categorization
Goodman, N. D., Tenenbaum, J. B., Griffiths, T. L., & Feldman, J. (2008). Compositionality in rational analysis: Grammar-based induction for concept learning. In M. Oaksford and N. Chater (Eds.). The probabilistic mind: Prospects for rational models of cognition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (manuscript pdf)
Statistical Models of Language
Steyvers, M., & Griffiths, T. L. (2008). Rational analysis as a link between human memory and information retrieval. In M. Oaksford and N. Chater (Eds.). The probabilistic mind: Prospects for rational models of cognition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (manuscript pdf)
Foundations
Griffiths, T. L., & Yuille, A. (2008). A primer on probabilistic inference. In M. Oaksford and N. Chater (Eds.). The probabilistic mind: Prospects for rational models of cognition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (manuscript pdf)
Foundations
Griffiths, T. L., Kemp, C., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2008). Bayesian models of cognition. In Ron Sun (ed.), The Cambridge handbook of computational cognitive modeling. Cambridge University Press. (manuscript pdf)

2007
Statistical Models of Language
Griffiths, T. L., Steyvers, M., & Firl, A. (2007). Google and the mind: Predicting fluency with PageRank. Psychological Science, 18, 1069-1076. (pdf)
Similarity and Categorization
Statistical Models of Language
Iwata, T., Saito, K., Ueda, N., Stromsten, S., Griffiths, T. L., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2007). Parametric embedding for class visualization. Neural Computation, 19, 2536-2556. (pdf)
Causal Induction
Schulz, L.E., Bonawitz, E. B., & Griffiths, T. L. (2007). Can being scared make your tummy ache? Naive theories, ambiguous evidence and preschoolers' causal inferences. Developmental Psychology, 43, 1124-1139. (pdf)
Statistical Models of Language
Cultural Evolution and Iterated Learning
Bouchard, A., Liang, P., Griffiths, T., & Klein, D. (2007). A probabilistic approach to diachronic phonology. Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL). (pdf)
Statistical Models of Language
Frank, M. C., Goldwater, S., Mansinghka, V., Griffiths, T., & Tenenbaum, J. (2007). Modeling human performance in statistical word segmentation. Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
Similarity and Categorization
Goodman, N. D., Griffiths, T. L., Feldman, J., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2007). A rational analysis of rule-based concept learning. Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
Similarity and Categorization
Nonparametric Bayesian Models
Griffiths, T. L., Canini, K. R., Sanborn, A. N., & Navarro, D. J. (2007) Unifying rational models of categorization via the hierarchical Dirichlet process. Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
Similarity and Categorization
Statistical Models of Language
Feldman, N. H., & Griffiths, T. L. (2007). A rational account of the perceptual magnet effect. Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
Probabilistic Reasoning
Schreiber, E., & Griffiths, T. L. (2007) Subjective randomness and natural scene statistics. Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
Nonparametric Bayesian Models
Wood, F., & Griffiths, T. L. (2007). Particle filtering for nonparametric Bayesian matrix factorization. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 19. (pdf)
Statistical Models of Language
Nonparametric Bayesian Models
Johnson, M., Griffiths, T. L., & Goldwater, S. (2007). Adaptor grammars: A framework for specifying compositional nonparametric Bayesian models. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 19. (pdf)
Similarity and Categorization
Nonparametric Bayesian Models
Navarro, D. J., & Griffiths, T. L. (2007). A nonparametric Bayesian method for inferring features from similarity judgments. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 19. (pdf)
Cultural Evolution and Iterated Learning
Griffiths, T. L., & Kalish, M. L. (2007). Language evolution by iterated learning with Bayesian agents. Cognitive Science, 31, 441-480. (pdf)
Cultural Evolution and Iterated Learning
Kalish, M. L., Griffiths, T. L., & Lewandowsky, S. (2007). Iterated learning: Intergenerational knowledge transmission reveals inductive biases. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 14, 288-294. (pdf)
Statistical Models of Language
Goldwater, S., & Griffiths, T. L. (2007). A fully Bayesian approach to unsupervised part-of-speech tagging. Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'07). (pdf)
Statistical Models of Language
Griffiths, T. L., Steyvers, M., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2007). Topics in semantic representation. Psychological Review, 114,211-244. (pdf) (topic modeling toolbox)
Nonparametric Bayesian Models
Ghahramani, Z., Griffiths, T. L., & Sollich, P. (2007). Bayesian nonparametric latent feature models. Bayesian Statistics 8. Oxford University Press. (pdf) (discussion) (rejoinder)
Statistical Models of Language
Johnson, M., Griffiths, T. L., & Goldwater, S. (2007). Bayesian inference for PCFGs via Markov chain Monte Carlo. Proceedings of the North American Conference on Computational Linguistics (NAACL'07). (pdf)
Cultural Evolution and Iterated Learning
Kirby, S., Dowman, M., & Griffiths, T. (2007). Innateness and culture in the evolution of language. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104, 5241-5245. (pdf)
Causal Induction
Tenenbaum, J. B., Griffiths, T. L., & Niyogi, S. (2007). Intuitive theories as grammars for causal inference. In A. Gopnik, & L. Schulz (Eds.), Causal learning: Psychology, philosophy, and computation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (pdf)
Causal Induction
Griffiths, T. L., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2007). Two proposals for causal grammars. In A. Gopnik & L. Schulz (Eds.), Causal learning: Psychology, philosophy, and computation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (pdf)
Statistical Models of Language
Steyvers, M., & Griffiths, T. (2007). Probabilistic topic models. In T. Landauer, D. S. McNamara, S. Dennis, & W. Kintsch (Eds.), Handbook of Latent Semantic Analysis. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. (pdf) (topic modeling toolbox)
Statistical Models of Language
Goldwater, S., Griffiths, T. L., & Johnson, M. (2007). Distributional cues to word segmentation: Context is important. Proceedings of the 31st Boston University Conference on Language Development. (pdf)
Causal Induction
Probabilistic Reasoning
Griffiths, T. L., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2007). From mere coincidences to meaningful discoveries. Cognition, 103, 180-226. (pdf)

2006
Probabilistic Reasoning
Griffiths, T. L., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2006). Optimal predictions in everyday cognition. Psychological Science, 17, 767-773. (pdf) (article in The Economist)
Foundations
Griffiths, T. L., & Yuille, A. (2006). A primer on probabilistic inference. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. Supplement to special issue on Probabilistic Models of Cognition (volume 10, issue 7). (pdf)
Foundations
Causal Induction
Tenenbaum, J. B., Griffiths, T. L., & Kemp, C. (2006). Theory-based Bayesian models of inductive learning and reasoning. Trends in Cognitive Science, 10, 309-318. (pdf)
Statistical Models of Language
Steyvers, M., Griffiths, T. L., & Dennis, S. (2006). Probabilistic inference in human semantic memory. Trends in Cognitive Science, 10, 327-334. (pdf) (topic modeling toolbox)
Foundations
Probabilistic Reasoning
Griffiths, T. L., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2006). Statistics and the Bayesian mind. Significance, 3, 130-133. (pdf)
Statistical Models of Language
Purver, M., Kording, K. P., Griffiths, T. L., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2006). Unsupervised topic modelling for multi-party spoken discourse. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. (pdf)
Statistical Models of Language
Nonparametric Bayesian Models
Goldwater, S., Griffiths, T. L., & Johnson, M. (2006). Contextual dependencies in unsupervised word segmentation. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics.(pdf)
Similarity and Categorization
Nonparametric Bayesian Models
Sanborn, A. N., Griffiths, T. L., & Navarro, D. J. (2006). A more rational model of categorization. Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
Causal Induction
Bonawitz, E. B., Griffiths, T. L., & Schulz, L. (2006). Modeling cross-domain causal learning in preschoolers as Bayesian inference. Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf) (winner of the Marr Prize for best student paper)
Similarity and Categorization
Cultural Evolution and Iterated Learning
Griffiths, T. L., Christian, B. R., & Kalish, M. L. (2006). Revealing priors on category structures through iterated learning. Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
Nonparametric Bayesian Models
Kemp, C., Tenenbaum, J. B., Griffiths, T. L., Yamada, T., & Ueda, N. (2006). Learning systems of concepts with an infinite relational model. Proceedings of the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '06). (pdf) (IRM code)
Causal Induction
Nonparametric Bayesian Models
Mansinghka, V. K., Kemp, C., Tenenbaum, J. B., & Griffiths, T. L. (2006). Structured priors for structure learning. Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2006). (pdf)
Causal Induction
Nonparametric Bayesian Models
Wood, F., Griffiths, T. L., & Ghahramani, Z. (2006). A non-parametric Bayesian method for inferring hidden causes. Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2006). (pdf)
Statistical Models of Language
Goldwater, S., Griffiths, T. L., & Johnson, M. (2006). Interpolating between types and tokens by estimating power law generators. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 18. (pdf) (note: this version of the paper is slightly modified from the hardcopy proceedings)
Nonparametric Bayesian Models
Griffiths, T. L., & Ghahramani, Z. (2006). Infinite latent feature models and the Indian buffet process. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 18. (pdf)
Nonparametric Bayesian Models
Navarro, D. J., Griffiths, T. L., Steyvers, M., & Lee, M. D. (2006). Modeling individual differences using Dirichlet processes. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 50, 101-122. (pdf)

2005
Causal Induction
Griffiths, T. L., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2005). Structure and strength in causal induction. Cognitive Psychology, 51, 354-384. (pdf) (Matlab code for computing causal support)
Cultural Evolution and Iterated Learning
Griffiths, T. L., & Kalish, M. L. (2005). A Bayesian view of language evolution by iterated learning. Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
Nonparametric Bayesian Models
Navarro, D.J., Griffiths, T. L., Steyvers, M., & Lee, M. D. (2005). Modeling individual differences with Dirichlet processes. Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
Nonparametric Bayesian Models
Griffiths, T. L., & Ghahramani, Z. (2005). Infinite latent feature models and the Indian buffet process. Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit Technical Report GCNU TR 2005-001. (pdf)
Statistical Models of Language
Iwata, T., Saito, K., Ueda, N., Stromsten, S., Griffiths, T. L., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2005). Parametric embedding for class visualization. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 17. (pdf)
Statistical Models of Language
Griffiths, T. L., Steyvers, M., Blei, D. M., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2005). Integrating topics and syntax. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 17. (pdf) (topic modeling toolbox)
Causal Induction
Griffiths, T. L. (2005). Causes, coincidences, and theories. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Stanford University, Stanford CA. (pdf)

2004
Causal Induction
Kemp, C., Griffiths, T. L., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2004). Discovering latent classes in relational data. AI Memo 2004-019 (pdf)
Statistical Models of Language
Steyvers, M., Smyth, P., Rosen-Zvi, M., & Griffiths, T. (2004). Probabilistic Author-Topic models for information discovery. The Tenth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. (pdf) (demo) (topic modeling toolbox)
Statistical Models of Language
Rosen-Zvi, M., Griffiths, T., Steyvers, M., & Smyth, P. (2004). The Author-Topic Model for authors and documents. 20th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence. (pdf) (demo) (topic modeling toolbox)
Statistical Models of Language
Griffiths, T. L., & Steyvers, M. (2004). Finding scientific topics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 101, 5228-5235. (pdf) (topic modeling toolbox)
Similarity and Categorization
Kemp, C. S., Griffiths, T. L., Stromsten, S., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2004). Semi-supervised learning with trees. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 16. (pdf)
Statistical Models of Language
Nonparametric Bayesian Models
Blei, D.M., Griffiths, T. L., Jordan, M. I., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2004). Hierarchical topic models and the nested Chinese restaurant process. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 16. (pdf) (winner of the Best Student Paper prize)
Probabilistic Reasoning
Griffiths, T. L., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2004). From algorithmic to subjective randomness. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 16. (pdf) (winner of the Best Student Paper prize)
Causal Induction
Griffiths, T. L., Baraff, E.R., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2004). Using physical theories to infer hidden causal structure. Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)

2003
Causal Induction
Danks, D., Griffiths, T. L., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2003). Dynamical causal learning. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 15. (pdf)
Causal Induction
Tenenbaum, J. B., & Griffiths, T. L. (2003). Theory-based causal inference. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 15. (pdf)
Statistical Models of Language
Griffiths, T. L., & Steyvers, M. (2003). Prediction and semantic association. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 15. (pdf) (topic modeling toolbox)
Probabilistic Reasoning
Griffiths, T. L., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2003). Probability, algorithmic complexity, and subjective randomness. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)

2002
Similarity and Categorization
Griffiths, T. L., & Kalish, M. L. (2002). A multidimensional scaling approach to mental multiplication. Memory and Cognition, 30, 97-106. (pdf)
Statistical Models of Language
Griffiths, T. L., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2002). Using vocabulary knowledge in Bayesian multinomial estimation. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 14. (pdf)
Statistical Models of Language
Griffiths, T. L., & Steyvers, M. (2002). A probabilistic approach to semantic representation. Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf) (topic modeling toolbox)

2001
Causal Induction
Tenenbaum, J. B., & Griffiths, T. L. (2001). Structure learning in human causal induction. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 13. (pdf) (Matlab code for computing causal support)
Probabilistic Reasoning
Griffiths, T. L., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2001). Randomness and coincidences: Reconciling intuition and probability theory. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
Probabilistic Reasoning
Tenenbaum, J. B., & Griffiths, T. L. (2001). The rational basis of representativeness. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
Similarity and Categorization
Tenenbaum, J. B., & Griffiths, T. L. (2001). Generalization, similarity, and Bayesian inference. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24,629-641. (pdf)
Similarity and Categorization
Tenenbaum, J. B., & Griffiths, T. L. (2001). Some specifics about generalization. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24, 772-778. (html)

2000
Probabilistic Reasoning
Griffiths, T. L., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2000). Teacakes, trains, toxins, and taxicabs: A Bayesian account of predicting the future. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
Similarity and Categorization
Lewandowsky, S., Kalish, M., & Griffiths, T. L. (2000). Competing strategies in categorization: Expediency and resistance to knowledge restructuring. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 26, 1666-1684. (pdf)

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