| Dreamcoder: Bootstrapping inductive program synthesis with wake-sleep library learning K Ellis, C Wong, M Nye, M Sablé-Meyer, L Morales, L Hewitt, L Cary, ... Proceedings of the 42nd acm sigplan international conference on programming …, 2021 | 460* | 2021 |
| Learning to infer graphics programs from hand-drawn images K Ellis, D Ritchie, A Solar-Lezama, J Tenenbaum Advances in neural information processing systems 31, 2018 | 276 | 2018 |
| Write, execute, assess: Program synthesis with a repl K Ellis, M Nye, Y Pu, F Sosa, J Tenenbaum, A Solar-Lezama Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 32, 2019 | 173 | 2019 |
| Learning to infer and execute 3d shape programs Y Tian, A Luo, X Sun, K Ellis, WT Freeman, JB Tenenbaum, J Wu arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.02875, 2019 | 166 | 2019 |
| Learning libraries of subroutines for neurally–guided bayesian program induction K Ellis, L Morales, M Sablé-Meyer, A Solar-Lezama, J Tenenbaum Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31, 2018 | 118 | 2018 |
| Bias reformulation for one-shot function induction D Lin, E Dechter, K Ellis, J Tenenbaum, S Muggleton ECAI 2014, 525-530, 2014 | 118 | 2014 |
| Neurosymbolic programming S Chaudhuri, K Ellis, O Polozov, R Singh, A Solar-Lezama, Y Yue Foundations and Trends® in Programming Languages 7 (3), 158-243, 2021 | 114 | 2021 |
| Unsupervised learning by program synthesis K Ellis, A Solar-Lezama, J Tenenbaum Advances in neural information processing systems 28, 2015 | 99 | 2015 |
| A language of thought for the mental representation of geometric shapes M Sablé-Meyer, K Ellis, J Tenenbaum, S Dehaene Cognitive Psychology 139, 101527, 2022 | 93 | 2022 |
| Leveraging language to learn program abstractions and search heuristics C Wong, KM Ellis, J Tenenbaum, J Andreas International conference on machine learning, 11193-11204, 2021 | 65 | 2021 |
| Top-down synthesis for library learning M Bowers, TX Olausson, L Wong, G Grand, JB Tenenbaum, K Ellis, ... Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages 7 (POPL), 1182-1213, 2023 | 61 | 2023 |
| Making sense of raw input R Evans, M Bošnjak, L Buesing, K Ellis, D Pfau, P Kohli, M Sergot Artificial Intelligence 299, 103521, 2021 | 44 | 2021 |
| Sampling for bayesian program learning K Ellis, A Solar-Lezama, J Tenenbaum Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 29, 2016 | 42 | 2016 |
| Learning to Learn Programs from Examples: Going Beyond Program Structure. K Ellis, S Gulwani IJCAI, 1638-1645, 2017 | 41 | 2017 |
| Learning abstract structure for drawing by efficient motor program induction L Tian, K Ellis, M Kryven, J Tenenbaum Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 33, 2686-2697, 2020 | 38 | 2020 |
| Synthesizing theories of human language with Bayesian program induction K Ellis, A Albright, A Solar-Lezama, JB Tenenbaum, TJ O’Donnell Nature communications 13 (1), 5024, 2022 | 31 | 2022 |
| CrossBeam: Learning to search in bottom-up program synthesis K Shi, H Dai, K Ellis, C Sutton arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.10452, 2022 | 31 | 2022 |
| Program synthesis with pragmatic communication Y Pu, K Ellis, M Kryven, J Tenenbaum, A Solar-Lezama Advances in neural information processing systems 33, 13249-13259, 2020 | 25 | 2020 |
| Worldcoder, a model-based llm agent: Building world models by writing code and interacting with the environment H Tang, D Key, K Ellis Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 37, 70148-70212, 2025 | 22 | 2025 |
| Human-like few-shot learning via bayesian reasoning over natural language K Ellis Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36, 13149-13178, 2023 | 22* | 2023 |