Publication
Notes on Hierarchical Splines, DCLNs and i-theory. (2015).
CBMM Memo 037 (1.83 MB)
A Perspective: Sparse Compositionality and Efficiently Computable Intelligence. (2026).
Perspective_SPCOMP-9.pdf (170.23 KB)
Is Research in Intelligence an Existential Risk?. (2014).
Is Research in Intelligence an Existential Risk.pdf (571.42 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)
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)
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)
From Associative Memories to Powerful Machines. (2021).
v1.0 (1.01 MB)
v1.3Section added August 6 on self attention (3.9 MB)
Associative Memory as the Core of Intelligence in Technology and Evolution. (2026).
Review_On_Associative_Memories-14.pdf (245.78 KB)
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: Landscape of the Empirical Risk in Deep Learning. (2017).
CBMM Memo 066_1703.09833v2.pdf (5.56 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)
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)
What if.. (2015).
What if.pdf (2.09 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)
Theoretical issues in deep networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 201907369 (2020). doi:10.1073/pnas.1907369117
PNASlast.pdf (915.3 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)
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)
Explicit regularization and implicit bias in deep network classifiers trained with the square loss. arXiv (2020). at <https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.00072>
Deep Learning: mathematics and neuroscience. (2016).
Deep Learning- mathematics and neuroscience.pdf (1.25 MB)
From Marr’s Vision to the Problem of Human Intelligence. (2021).
CBMM-Memo-118.pdf (362.19 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>
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)
I-theory on depth vs width: hierarchical function composition. (2015).
cbmm_memo_041.pdf (1.18 MB)
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