Publication
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)
Visual Cortex and Deep Networks: Learning Invariant Representations. 136 (The MIT Press, 2016). at <https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/visual-cortex-and-deep-networks>
Notes on Hierarchical Splines, DCLNs and i-theory. (2015).
CBMM Memo 037 (1.83 MB)
Deep Leaning: Mathematics and Neuroscience. A Sponsored Supplement to Science Brain-Inspired intelligent robotics: The intersection of robotics and neuroscience, 9-12 (2016).
From Associative Memories to Powerful Machines. (2021).
v1.0 (1.01 MB)
v1.3Section added August 6 on self attention (3.9 MB)
A Perspective: Sparse Compositionality and Efficiently Computable Intelligence. (2026).
Perspective_SPCOMP-9.pdf (170.23 KB)
Compositional sparsity of learnable functions. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 61, 438-456 (2024).
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)
On efficiently computable functions, deep networks and sparse compositionality. (2025).
Deep_sparse_networks_approximate_efficiently_computable_functions.pdf (223.15 KB)
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)
Associative Memory as the Core of Intelligence in Technology and Evolution. (2026).
Review_On_Associative_Memories-14.pdf (245.78 KB)
Is Research in Intelligence an Existential Risk?. (2014).
Is Research in Intelligence an Existential Risk.pdf (571.42 KB)
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)
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)
I-theory on depth vs width: hierarchical function composition. (2015).
cbmm_memo_041.pdf (1.18 MB)
Turing++ Questions: A Test for the Science of (Human) Intelligence. AI Magazine 37 , 73-77 (2016).
Turing_Plus_Questions.pdf (424.91 KB)
Theory II: Deep learning and optimization. Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences: Technical Sciences 66, (2018).
03_775-788_00920_Bpast.No_.66-6_31.12.18_K2.pdf (5.43 MB)
Double descent in the condition number. (2019).
Fixing typos, clarifying error in y, best approach is crossvalidation (837.18 KB)
Incorporated footnote in text plus other edits (854.05 KB)
Deleted previous discussion on kernel regression and deep nets: it will appear, extended, in a separate paper (795.28 KB)
correcting a bad typo (261.24 KB)
Deleted plot of condition number of kernel matrix: we cannot get a double descent curve (769.32 KB)
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)
What if.. (2015).
What if.pdf (2.09 MB)
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