Talks and Posters

2026

Talks

  • Tutorial: how to build and train a GPT 🔽 Slides - Open Notebook

    Statistical Physics of Deep Learning III - Lake Como School of Advanced studies, 16/06/2026

  • Implicit bias produces scaling laws in learning curves, from perceptrons to deep networks 🔽 Slides

    PCSL group meeting - École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 06/03/2026

    ICLR26 short recorded talk - Video

  • Pseudolikelihood produces associative memories able to generalize, even for asymmetric couplings 🔽 Slides

    4th workshop of Unione Matematica Italiana (UMI) - Sapienza University of Rome, 23/01/2026

Posters

  • Implicit bias produces neural scaling laws in learning curves, from perceptrons to deep networks 🔽 Poster

    ICLR2026 - Rio de Janeiro, 23-27/04/2026

    Statistical Physics of Deep Learning III - Lake Como School of Advanced studies, 15-19/06/2026

  • Power-law feature statistics explain test reconstruction gaps in Associative Memories 🔽 Poster

    NFAM2026 - Rio de Janeiro, 23-27/04/2026

2025

Talks

  • Scaling laws, from Perceptrons to Deep Networks 🔽 Slides

    Sapienza University of Rome - Chimera group Journal Club, 07/10/2025

    University of Parma - Statistical mechanics group, 23/10/2025

    Universidad Complutense de Madrid - Theoretical physics department seminar, 18/02/2026

  • Statistical mechanics of autoregressive models: towards a theory of Self-Attention 🔽 Slides

    PhD talks - Sapienza University of Rome, 16/10/2025

Posters

  • Pseudo-likelihood produces associative memories able to generalize, even for asymmetric couplings 🔽 Poster

    Mathematical Methods for High-Dimensional Data, Sapienza University of Rome, 8-12/09/25

    STATPHYS29, Firenze, 13-17/07/25

  • Implicit bias produces neural scaling laws in learning curves, from perceptrons to deep networks 🔽 Poster

    ROccella Conference on Inference and AI, Roccella Ionica, 1-5/09/25

    Learning and Optimization in High Dimensions, Bocconi Univeristy, Milano, 8-11/07/25

    Beg Rohu summer school, Saint-Pierre-Quiberon, 2-14/06/25

2024

Talks

  • Self-attention as an attractor network: transient memories without backpropagation 🔽 Slides

    SISSA Journal Club — Trieste, 11/10/2024

Posters

  • Self-attention as an attractor network: transient memories without backpropagation 🔽 Poster

    ROccella Conference on Inference and AI, Roccella Ionica, 1-5/09/24

    SISSA Journal Club — Trieste, 11/10/2024