Publication
Visual Cortex and Deep Networks: Learning Invariant Representations. 136 (The MIT Press, 2016). at <https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/visual-cortex-and-deep-networks>
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)
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)
I-theory on depth vs width: hierarchical function composition. (2015).
cbmm_memo_041.pdf (1.18 MB)
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)
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)
Associative Memory as the Core of Intelligence in Technology and Evolution. (2026).
Review_On_Associative_Memories-14.pdf (245.78 KB)
Computational role of eccentricity dependent cortical magnification. (2014).
CBMM-Memo-017.pdf (1.04 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)
Is Research in Intelligence an Existential Risk?. (2014).
Is Research in Intelligence an Existential Risk.pdf (571.42 KB)
Theory II: Landscape of the Empirical Risk in Deep Learning. (2017).
CBMM Memo 066_1703.09833v2.pdf (5.56 MB)
Explicit regularization and implicit bias in deep network classifiers trained with the square loss. arXiv (2020). at <https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.00072>
Complexity Control by Gradient Descent in Deep Networks. Nature Communications 11, (2020).
s41467-020-14663-9.pdf (431.68 KB)
How Deep Sparse Networks Avoid the Curse of Dimensionality: Efficiently Computable Functions are Compositionally Sparse. (2022).
v1.0 (984.15 KB)
v5.7 adding in context learning etc (1.16 MB)
From Marr’s Vision to the Problem of Human Intelligence. (2021).
CBMM-Memo-118.pdf (362.19 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)
Notes on Hierarchical Splines, DCLNs and i-theory. (2015).
CBMM Memo 037 (1.83 MB)
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)
Turing++ Questions: A Test for the Science of (Human) Intelligence. AI Magazine 37 , 73-77 (2016).
Turing_Plus_Questions.pdf (424.91 KB)
From Associative Memories to Powerful Machines. (2021).
v1.0 (1.01 MB)
v1.3Section added August 6 on self attention (3.9 MB)
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)
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