Publication
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).
What if.. (2015).
What if.pdf (2.09 MB)
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)
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)
Theory I: Deep networks and the curse of dimensionality. Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences: Technical Sciences 66, (2018).
02_761-774_00966_Bpast.No_.66-6_28.12.18_K1.pdf (1.18 MB)
Compositional Sparsity of Learnable Functions. (2024).
This is an update of the AMS paper (230.72 KB)
Deep Learning: mathematics and neuroscience. (2016).
Deep Learning- mathematics and neuroscience.pdf (1.25 MB)
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)
Visual Cortex and Deep Networks: Learning Invariant Representations. 136 (The MIT Press, 2016). at <https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/visual-cortex-and-deep-networks>
Cervelli menti algoritmi. 272 (Sperling & Kupfer, 2023). at <https://www.sperling.it/libri/cervelli-menti-algoritmi-marco-magrini>
Deep Leaning: Mathematics and Neuroscience. A Sponsored Supplement to Science Brain-Inspired intelligent robotics: The intersection of robotics and neuroscience, 9-12 (2016).
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)
I-theory on depth vs width: hierarchical function composition. (2015).
cbmm_memo_041.pdf (1.18 MB)
Implicit dynamic regularization in deep networks. (2020).
v1.2 (2.29 MB)
v.59 Update on rank (2.43 MB)
Stable Foundations for Learning: a framework for learning theory (in both the classical and modern regime). (2020).
Original file (584.54 KB)
Corrected typos and details of "equivalence" CV stability and expected error for interpolating machines. Added Appendix on SGD. (905.29 KB)
Edited Appendix on SGD. (909.19 KB)
Deleted Appendix. Corrected typos etc (880.27 KB)
Added result about square loss and min norm (898.03 KB)
A Perspective: Sparse Compositionality and Efficiently Computable Intelligence. (2026).
Perspective_SPCOMP-9.pdf (170.23 KB)
Complexity Control by Gradient Descent in Deep Networks. Nature Communications 11, (2020).
s41467-020-14663-9.pdf (431.68 KB)
Compositional sparsity of learnable functions. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 61, 438-456 (2024).
On efficiently computable functions, deep networks and sparse compositionality. (2025).
Deep_sparse_networks_approximate_efficiently_computable_functions.pdf (223.15 KB)
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)
Is Research in Intelligence an Existential Risk?. (2014).
Is Research in Intelligence an Existential Risk.pdf (571.42 KB)
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