Publications

• A Theory of Initialisation's Impact on Specialisation.
  D Jarvis^*, S Lee^*, CCJ Domine^*, AM Saxe, S Sarao Mannelli
  Proceedings of the The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (2025)
• Make Haste Slowly: A Theory of Emergent Structured Mixed Selectivity in Feature Learning ReLU Networks.
  D Jarvis^*, R Klein, B Rosman, AM Saxe
  Proceedings of the The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (2025)
• How to choose the right transfer learning protocol? A qualitative analysis in a controlled set-up
  F Gerace, D Doimo, S Sarao Mannelli, L Saglietti, A Laio
  Transactions on Machine Learning Research (2024)
• Tilting the Odds at the Lottery: the Interplay of Overparameterisation and Curricula in Neural Networks
  S Sarao Mannelli, Y Ivashynka, A Saxe, L Saglietti
  Forty-first International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML (2024)
• Bias in Motion: Theoretical Insights into the Dynamics of Bias in SGD Training
  A Jain, R Nobahari, A Baratin, S Sarao Mannelli
  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, (2024)
• Why Do Animals Need Shaping? A Theory of Task Composition and Curriculum Learning
  JH Lee, S Sarao Mannelli, A Saxe
  Forty-first International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML (2024)
• A meta-learning framework for rationalizing cognitive fatigue in neural systems
  Y Li, R Carrasco-Davis, Y Strittmatter, S Sarao Mannelli, S Musslick
  Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 46 (2024)
• Compositional Instruction Following with Language Models and Reinforcement Learning
  V Cohen, GN Tasse^*, N Gopalan, S James, M Gombolay, R Mooney, B Rosman
  Transactions on Machine Learning Research (2024)
• Skill Machines: Temporal Logic Skill Composition in Reinforcement Learning
  GN Tasse^*, D Jarvis, S James, B Rosman
  Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations (2023)
• Dynamics generalisation in reinforcement learning via adaptive context-aware policies
  M Beukman^*, D Jarvis, R Klein, S James, B Rosman
  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36 (2023)
• Distribution of cholinergic neurons in the brains of a lar gibbon and a chimpanzee
  Williams, Victoria M.^*, Adhil Bhagwandin, Jordan Swiegers, Mads F. Bertelsen, Therese Hård, Chet C. Sherwood, and Paul R. Manger. The Anatomical Record 305, no. 6 (2022): 1516-1535.
• Nuclear organization of orexinergic neurons in the hypothalamus of a lar gibbon and a chimpanzee
  Williams, Victoria M.^*, Adhil Bhagwandin, Jordan Swiegers, Mads F. Bertelsen, Therese Hård, Thomas C. Thannickal, Jerome M. Siegel, Chet C. Sherwood, and Paul R. Manger. The Anatomical Record 305, no. 6 (2022): 1459-1475.
• Nuclear organization of serotonergic neurons in the brainstems of a lar gibbon and a chimpanzee
  Williams, Victoria M.^*, Adhil Bhagwandin, Jordan Swiegers, Mads F. Bertelsen, Therese Hård, Chet C. Sherwood, and Paul R. Manger. The Anatomical Record 305, no. 6 (2022): 1500-1515.
• Nuclear organization of catecholaminergic neurons in the brains of a lar gibbon and a chimpanzee.
  Williams, Victoria M.^*, Adhil Bhagwandin, Jordan Swiegers, Mads F. Bertelsen, Therese Hård, Chet C. Sherwood, and Paul R. Manger. The Anatomical Record 305, no. 6 (2022): 1476-1499.
• Maslow's Hammer for Catastrophic Forgetting: Node Re-Use vs Node Activation
  S Lee, S Sarao Mannelli, C Clopath, S Goldt, A Saxe
  ICML (2022), 12455-12477
• Probing transfer learning with a model of synthetic correlated datasets
  F Gerace, L Saglietti, S Sarao Mannelli, A Saxe, L Zdeborová
  Machine Learning: Science and Technology 3 (1) (2022)
• An Analytical Theory of Curriculum Learning in Teacher-Student Networks
  L Saglietti, S Sarao Mannelli, AM Saxe
  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35 (2022), 21113-21127
• On The Specialization of Neural Modules
  D Jarvis^*, R Klein, B Rosman, AM Saxe
  Proceedings of the The Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations (2022)
• Epidemic mitigation by statistical inference from contact tracing data
  A Baker, I Biazzo, A Braunstein, G Catania, L Dall’Asta, A Ingrosso, F Krzakala, F Mazza, M Mézard, AP Muntoni, M Refinetti, S Sarao Mannelli, L Zdeborová
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (32) (2022)
• Generalisation in Lifelong Reinforcement Learning through Logical Composition
  GN Tasse^*, S James, B Rosman
  Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Learning Representations
  
• A boolean task algebra for reinforcement learning
  GN Tasse^*, S James, B Rosman
  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 33, 9497-9507
• The distribution, number and certain neurochemical identities of infracortical white matter neurons in a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) brain.
  Swiegers, Jordan, Adhil Bhagwandin, Victoria M. Williams, Busisiwe C. Maseko, Chet C. Sherwood, Therese Hård, Mads F. Bertelsen, Kathleen S. Rockland, Zoltán Molnár, and Paul R. Manger Journal of Comparative Neurology 529 (14): 3429-3452 (2021)