Publication
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)
Compositional sparsity of learnable functions. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 61, 438-456 (2024).
Visual Cortex and Deep Networks: Learning Invariant Representations. 136 (The MIT Press, 2016). at <https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/visual-cortex-and-deep-networks>
Complexity Control by Gradient Descent in Deep Networks. Nature Communications 11, (2020).
s41467-020-14663-9.pdf (431.68 KB)
On efficiently computable functions, deep networks and sparse compositionality. (2025).
Deep_sparse_networks_approximate_efficiently_computable_functions.pdf (223.15 KB)
Evolving Images for Visual Neurons Using a Deep Generative Network Reveals Coding Principles and Neuronal Preferences. Cell 177, 1009 (2019).
Author's last draft (20.26 MB)
Using fNIRS to Map Functional Specificity in the Infant Brain: An fROI Approach. (2015).
SRCD2015_NIRS_poster.pdf (2.14 MB)
Infants’ Categorization of Social Actions. Cognitive Development Society (CDS) (2015).
Simultaneous whole-animal 3D imaging of neuronal activity using light-field microscopy. Nature Methods 11, 727 - 730 (2014).
NOPA: Neurally-guided Online Probabilistic Assistance for Building Socially Intelligent Home Assistants. arXiv (2023). at <https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.05223>
NOPA: Neurally-guided Online Probabilistic Assistance for Building Socially Intelligent Home Assistants. 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (2023). doi:10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10161352
The inferior temporal cortex is a potential cortical precursor of orthographic processing in untrained monkeys. Nature Communications 11, (2020).
s41467-020-17714-3.pdf (25.01 MB)
An Optimal Structured Zeroth-order Algorithm for Non-smooth Optimization. 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023) (2023). at <https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2023/file/7429f4c1b267cf619f28c4d4f1532f99-Paper-Conference.pdf>
For interpolating kernel machines, the minimum norm ERM solution is the most stable. (2020).
CBMM_Memo_108.pdf (1015.14 KB)
Better bound (without inequalities!) (1.03 MB)
For interpolating kernel machines, minimizing the norm of the ERM solution maximizes stability. Analysis and Applications 21, 193 - 215 (2023).
Understanding the Role of Recurrent Connections in Assembly Calculus. (2022).
CBMM-Memo-137.pdf (1.49 MB)
Feature learning in deep classifiers through Intermediate Neural Collapse. (2023).
Feature_Learning_memo.pdf (2.16 MB)
Biologically Inspired Mechanisms for Adversarial Robustness. (2020).
CBMM_Memo_110.pdf (3.14 MB)
Scene-Domain Active Part Models for Object Representation. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2497 - 2505 (2015). doi:10.1109/ICCV.2015.287
Ren_ICCV15.pdf (3.37 MB)
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