All Publications
2025
“The Indoor-Training Effect: unexpected gains from distribution shifts in the transition function”. 2025. ,
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“What if Eye..? Computationally Recreating Vision Evolution”, arXiv, 2025.
2501.15001v1.pdf (5.2 MB) ,

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2024
CBMM Memo No.
152
“Self-Assembly of a Biologically Plausible Learning Circuit”. 2024.
CBMM-Memo-152.pdf (1.84 MB) ,

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CBMM Memo No.
151
“On Generalization Bounds for Neural Networks with Low Rank Layers”. 2024.
CBMM-Memo-151.pdf (697.31 KB) ,

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CBMM Memo No.
150
“Formation of Representations in Neural Networks”. 2024.
CBMM-Memo-150.pdf (4.03 MB) ,

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CBMM Memo No.
149
“On the Power of Decision Trees in Auto-Regressive Language Modeling”. 2024.
CBMM-Memo-149.pdf (2.11 MB) ,

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CBMM Memo No.
148
“For HyperBFs AGOP is a greedy approximation to gradient descent”. 2024.
CBMM-Memo-148.pdf (1.06 MB) ,

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“Benchmarking Out-of-Distribution Generalization Capabilities of DNN-based Encoding Models for the Ventral Visual Cortex”, in NeurIPS 2024, 2024. ,
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“Compositional sparsity of learnable functions”, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 61, pp. 438-456, 2024. ,
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CBMM Memo No.
145
“Compositional Sparsity of Learnable Functions”. 2024.
CBMM-Memo-145.pdf (1.25 MB) ,

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“Top-tuning: A study on transfer learning for an efficient alternative to fine tuning for image classification with fast kernel methods”, Image and Vision Computing, vol. 142, p. 104894, 2024. ,
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“How does the primate brain combine generative and discriminative computations in vision?”, arXiv, 2024. ,
2023
CBMM Memo No.
144
“The Janus effects of SGD vs GD: high noise and low rank”. 2023.
Updated with appendix showing empirically that the main results extend to deep nonlinear networks (2.95 MB)
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“Norm-based Generalization Bounds for Sparse Neural Networks”, in NeurIPS 2023, New Orleans, 2023.
NeurIPS-2023-norm-based-generalization-bounds-for-sparse-neural-networks-Paper-Conference.pdf (577.69 KB) ,

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“Strong and Precise Modulation of Human Percepts via Robustified ANNs”, in NeurIPS 2023, 2023. ,
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“How to Guess a Gradient”, arXiv, 2023. ,
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Cervelli menti algoritmi. Sperling & Kupfer, 2023, p. 272. ,
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CBMM Memo No.
143
“A Homogeneous Transformer Architecture”. 2023.
CBMM Memo 143 v2 (1.1 MB) ,

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“System Identification of Neural Systems: If We Got It Right, Would We Know?”, Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning, PMLR, vol. 202. pp. 12430-12444, 2023.
han23d.pdf (797.48 KB) ,

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CBMM Memo No.
142
“Skip Connections Increase the Capacity of Associative Memories in Variable Binding Mechanisms”. 2023.
CBMM-Memo-142.pdf (1.64 MB) ,

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“Catalyzing next-generation Artificial Intelligence through NeuroAIAbstract”, Nature Communications, vol. 14, no. 1, 2023. ,
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CBMM Memo No.
141
“Feature learning in deep classifiers through Intermediate Neural Collapse”. 2023.
Feature_Learning_memo.pdf (2.16 MB) ,

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“An empirical assay of view-invariant object learning in humans and comparison with baseline image-computable models”, bioRxiv, 2023. ,
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“For interpolating kernel machines, minimizing the norm of the ERM solution maximizes stability”, Analysis and Applications, vol. 21, no. 01, pp. 193 - 215, 2023. ,
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