Publication
Theoretical issues in deep networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 201907369 (2020). doi:10.1073/pnas.1907369117
PNASlast.pdf (915.3 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 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)
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)
Compositional Sparsity of Learnable Functions. (2024).
This is an update of the AMS paper (230.72 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)
What if.. (2015).
What if.pdf (2.09 MB)
Explicit regularization and implicit bias in deep network classifiers trained with the square loss. arXiv (2020). at <https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.00072>
From Marr’s Vision to the Problem of Human Intelligence. (2021).
CBMM-Memo-118.pdf (362.19 KB)
Cervelli menti algoritmi. 272 (Sperling & Kupfer, 2023). at <https://www.sperling.it/libri/cervelli-menti-algoritmi-marco-magrini>
I-theory on depth vs width: hierarchical function composition. (2015).
cbmm_memo_041.pdf (1.18 MB)
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>
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)
Deep Leaning: Mathematics and Neuroscience. A Sponsored Supplement to Science Brain-Inspired intelligent robotics: The intersection of robotics and neuroscience, 9-12 (2016).
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)
Computational role of eccentricity dependent cortical magnification. (2014).
CBMM-Memo-017.pdf (1.04 MB)
Complexity Control by Gradient Descent in Deep Networks. Nature Communications 11, (2020).
s41467-020-14663-9.pdf (431.68 KB)
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).
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)
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