The Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM) is a National Science Foundation funded Science and Technology Center on the interdisciplinary study of intelligence. This effort is a multi-institutional collaboration headquartered at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, with Harvard University as a managing partner. Visit the CBMM website for more information.

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  • pAI/MSc: ML Theory Research with Humans on the Loop 

    Abdelmoneum, Mahmoud; Beneventano, Pierfrancesco; Poggio, Tomaso (Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM), 2026-03-25)
    We present pAI/MSc3, an open-source, customizable, modular multi-agent system for academic research workflows. Our goal is not autonomous scientific ideation, nor fully automated research. It is narrower and more practical: ...
  • Multiplicative Regularization Generalizes Better Than Additive Regularization 

    Dubach, Rafael; Abdallah, Mohamed S.; Poggio, Tomaso (Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM), 2025-07-02)
    We investigate the effectiveness of multiplicative versus additive (L2) regularization in deep neural networks, focusing on convolutional neural networks for classification. While additive methods constrain the sum of ...
  • Position: A Theory of Deep Learning Must Include Compositional Sparsity 

    Danhofer, David A.; D'Ascenso, Davide; Dubach, Rafael; Poggio, Tomaso (Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM), 2025-07-02)
    Overparametrized Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have demonstrated remarkable success in a wide variety of domains too high-dimensional for classical shallow networks subject to the curse of dimensionality. However, open ...

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