---
title: "Thomas L. Griffiths"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Thomas L. Griffiths"
aliases: ["Tom Griffiths","T. L. Griffiths"]
first_seen: "2026-07-12T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-opus-4-8"
connects_to: ["resource-rational analysis","Bayesian models of cognition","iterated learning","rational analysis (Anderson)"]
---


Cognitive scientist (Princeton), co-originator (with [[entity-falk-lieder|Falk
Lieder]]) of [[entity-resource-rational-analysis|resource-rational analysis]]
(Lieder & Griffiths, *Behavioral and Brain Sciences* 43, e1, 2020). He recurs in
the vault across more than one thread: Bayesian models of cognition adjacent to
the Oaksford & Chater rational-analysis cluster
([[claim-oaksford-chater-recast-wason-task-as-optimal-data-selection]]), and the
iterated-learning line the vault touches through model-collapse work
([[claim-iterated-learning-theory-reframes-model-collapse-as-cultural-evolution]],
[[claim-kalish-2007-human-iterated-learning-converges-few-generations]]).

## References
- [[claim-resource-rational-analysis-extends-andersons-rational-analysis]]
- [[claim-resource-rational-analysis-descends-from-bounded-optimality-not-werbos-adp]]
- [[claim-resource-rational-analysis-formalizes-utility-minus-compute-cost]]
- [[observation-resource-rational-analysis-confirms-anderson-leg-not-werbos-leg]]
- Adjacent threads: [[claim-iterated-learning-theory-reframes-model-collapse-as-cultural-evolution]]