Publication
Evolving Images for Visual Neurons Using a Deep Generative Network Reveals Coding Principles and Neuronal Preferences. Cell 177, 1009 (2019).
Author's last draft (20.26 MB)
Complexity Control by Gradient Descent in Deep Networks. Nature Communications 11, (2020).
s41467-020-14663-9.pdf (431.68 KB)
Computational role of eccentricity dependent cortical magnification. (2014).
CBMM-Memo-017.pdf (1.04 MB)
Why and when can deep-but not shallow-networks avoid the curse of dimensionality: A review. International Journal of Automation and Computing 1-17 (2017). doi:10.1007/s11633-017-1054-2
art%3A10.1007%2Fs11633-017-1054-2.pdf (1.68 MB)
Theory of Deep Learning III: explaining the non-overfitting puzzle. (2017).
CBMM-Memo-073.pdf (2.65 MB)
CBMM Memo 073 v2 (revised 1/15/2018) (2.81 MB)
CBMM Memo 073 v3 (revised 1/30/2018) (2.72 MB)
CBMM Memo 073 v4 (revised 12/30/2018) (575.72 KB)
A Perspective: Sparse Compositionality and Efficiently Computable Intelligence. (2026).
Perspective_SPCOMP-9.pdf (170.23 KB)
Turing++ Questions: A Test for the Science of (Human) Intelligence. AI Magazine 37 , 73-77 (2016).
Turing_Plus_Questions.pdf (424.91 KB)
Compositional sparsity of learnable functions. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 61, 438-456 (2024).
Theory I: Why and When Can Deep Networks Avoid the Curse of Dimensionality?. (2016).
CBMM-Memo-058v1.pdf (2.42 MB)
CBMM-Memo-058v5.pdf (2.45 MB)
CBMM-Memo-058-v6.pdf (2.74 MB)
Proposition 4 has been deleted (2.75 MB)
On efficiently computable functions, deep networks and sparse compositionality. (2025).
Deep_sparse_networks_approximate_efficiently_computable_functions.pdf (223.15 KB)
Notes on Hierarchical Splines, DCLNs and i-theory. (2015).
CBMM Memo 037 (1.83 MB)
From Associative Memories to Powerful Machines. (2021).
v1.0 (1.01 MB)
v1.3Section added August 6 on self attention (3.9 MB)
What if.. (2015).
What if.pdf (2.09 MB)
Associative Memory as the Core of Intelligence in Technology and Evolution. (2026).
Review_On_Associative_Memories-14.pdf (245.78 KB)
Deep Learning: mathematics and neuroscience. (2016).
Deep Learning- mathematics and neuroscience.pdf (1.25 MB)
Theory II: Landscape of the Empirical Risk in Deep Learning. (2017).
CBMM Memo 066_1703.09833v2.pdf (5.56 MB)
An Overview of Some Issues in the Theory of Deep Networks. IEEJ Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Engineering 15, 1560 - 1571 (2020).
The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography Volume 8 8, (Society for Neuroscience, 2014).
Volume Introduction and Preface (232.8 KB)
TomasoPoggio.pdf (1.43 MB)
Visual Cortex and Deep Networks: Learning Invariant Representations. 136 (The MIT Press, 2016). at <https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/visual-cortex-and-deep-networks>
Theoretical Issues in Deep Networks. (2019).
CBMM Memo 100 v1 (1.71 MB)
CBMM Memo 100 v3 (8/25/2019) (1.31 MB)
CBMM Memo 100 v4 (11/19/2019) (1008.23 KB)
Theoretical issues in deep networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 201907369 (2020). doi:10.1073/pnas.1907369117
PNASlast.pdf (915.3 KB)
Deep Leaning: Mathematics and Neuroscience. A Sponsored Supplement to Science Brain-Inspired intelligent robotics: The intersection of robotics and neuroscience, 9-12 (2016).
Loss landscape: SGD has a better view. (2020).
CBMM-Memo-107.pdf (1.03 MB)
Typos and small edits, ver11 (955.08 KB)
Small edits, corrected Hessian for spurious case (337.19 KB)
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