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2025

S. Bono, Madan, S., Grover, I., Yasueda, M., Breazeal, C., Pfister, H., and Kreiman, G., “The Indoor-Training Effect: unexpected gains from distribution shifts in the transition function”. 2025.
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K. Tiwary, Young, A., Tasneem, Z., Klinghoffer, T., Dave, A., Poggio, T., Nilsson, D. - E., Cheung, B., and Raskar, R., “What if Eye..? Computationally Recreating Vision Evolution”, arXiv, 2025.PDF icon 2501.15001v1.pdf (5.2 MB)
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2024

CBMM Memo No.
152
Q. Liao, Ziyin, L., Gan, Y., Cheung, B., Harnett, M., and Poggio, T., “Self-Assembly of a Biologically Plausible Learning Circuit”. 2024.PDF icon CBMM-Memo-152.pdf (1.84 MB)
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F. Montagna, Mastakouri, A. A., Eulig, E., Noceti, N., Rosasco, L., Janzing, D., Aragam, B., and Locatello, F., “Assumption violations in causal discovery and the robustness of score matching”, in 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023), 2024.
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CBMM Memo No.
151
A. Pinto, Rangamani, A., and Poggio, T., “On Generalization Bounds for Neural Networks with Low Rank Layers”. 2024.PDF icon CBMM-Memo-151.pdf (697.31 KB)
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CBMM Memo No.
150
L. Ziyin, Chuang, I., Galanti, T., and Poggio, T., “Formation of Representations in Neural Networks”. 2024.PDF icon CBMM-Memo-150.pdf (4.03 MB)
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CBMM Memo No.
149
Y. Gan, Galanti, T., Poggio, T., and Malach, E., “On the Power of Decision Trees in Auto-Regressive Language Modeling”. 2024.PDF icon CBMM-Memo-149.pdf (2.11 MB)
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CBMM Memo No.
148
Y. Gan and Poggio, T., “For HyperBFs AGOP is a greedy approximation to gradient descent”. 2024.PDF icon CBMM-Memo-148.pdf (1.06 MB)
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S. Madan, Xiao, W., Cao, M., Pfister, H., Livingstone, M. S., and Kreiman, G., “Benchmarking Out-of-Distribution Generalization Capabilities of DNN-based Encoding Models for the Ventral Visual Cortex”, in NeurIPS 2024, 2024.
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T. Poggio and Fraser, M., “Compositional sparsity of learnable functions”, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 61, pp. 438-456, 2024.
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F. Ceola, Rosasco, L., Natale, L., and Ceola, F., “RESPRECT: Speeding-up Multi-Fingered Grasping With Residual Reinforcement LearningRESPRECT: Speeding-Up Multi-Fingered Grasping With Residual Reinforcement Learning_supp1-3363532.mp4”, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 3045 - 3052, 2024.
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K. Mahowald, Ivanova, A. A., Blank, I. A., Kanwisher, N., Tenenbaum, J. B., and Fedorenko, E., “Dissociating language and thought in large language models”, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, vol. 28, no. 6, pp. 517 - 540, 2024.
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CBMM Memo No.
145
T. Poggio and Fraser, M., “Compositional Sparsity of Learnable Functions”. 2024.PDF icon CBMM-Memo-145.pdf (1.25 MB)
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P. Didier Alfano, Pastore, V. Paolo, Rosasco, L., and Odone, F., “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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S. J. Gershman, “What have we learned about artificial intelligence from studying the brain?”, Biological Cybernetics, vol. 118, no. 1-2, pp. 1 - 5, 2024.
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D. Mendoza-Halliday, Xu, H., Azevedo, F. A. C., and Desimone, R., “Dissociable neuronal substrates of visual feature attention and working memory”, Neuron, vol. 112, no. 5, pp. 850 - 863.e6, 2024.
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D. Mendoza-Halliday, Major, A. James, Lee, N., Lichtenfeld, M. J., Carlson, B., Mitchell, B., Meng, P. D., Xiong, Y., Westerberg, J. A., Jia, X., Johnston, K. D., Selvanayagam, J., Everling, S., Maier, A., Desimone, R., Miller, E. K., and Bastos, A. M., “A ubiquitous spectrolaminar motif of local field potential power across the primate cortexAbstract”, Nature Neuroscience, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 547 - 560, 2024.
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E. M. Meyers, “NeuroDecodeR: a package for neural decoding in RData_Sheet_1.docx”, Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, vol. 17, 2024.
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B. Peters, DiCarlo, J. J., Gureckis, T., Haefner, R., Isik, L., Tenenbaum, J., Konkle, T., Naselaris, T., Stachenfeld, K., Tavares, Z., Tsao, D., Yildirim, I., and Kriegeskorte, N., “How does the primate brain combine generative and discriminative computations in vision?”, arXiv, 2024.

2023

CBMM Memo No.
144
M. Xu, Galanti, T., Rangamani, A., Rosasco, L., Pinto, A., and Poggio, T., “The Janus effects of SGD vs GD: high noise and low rank”. 2023.PDF icon Updated with appendix showing empirically that the main results extend to deep nonlinear networks (2.95 MB)PDF icon Small updates...typos... (616.82 KB)
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K. R. Allen, Smith, K. A., Bird, L. - A., Tenenbaum, J. B., Makin, T. R., and Cowie, D., “Lifelong learning of cognitive styles for physical problem-solving: The effect of embodied experienceAbstract”, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2023.
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T. Galanti, Xu, M., Galanti, L., and Poggio, T., “Norm-based Generalization Bounds for Sparse Neural Networks”, in NeurIPS 2023, New Orleans, 2023.PDF icon NeurIPS-2023-norm-based-generalization-bounds-for-sparse-neural-networks-Paper-Conference.pdf (577.69 KB)
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G. Gaziv, Lee, M. J., and DiCarlo, J. J., “Strong and Precise Modulation of Human Percepts via Robustified ANNs”, in NeurIPS 2023, 2023.
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G. Meanti*, Chatalic, A., Kostic, V. R., Novelli, P., Pontil, M., and Rosasco, L., “Estimating Koopman operators with sketching to provably learn large scale dynamical systems”, in 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023), 2023.
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M. Rando, Molinari, C., Villa, S., and Rosasco, L., “An Optimal Structured Zeroth-order Algorithm for Non-smooth Optimization”, in 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023), 2023.
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