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This Guy Found a Faster Way to Multiply—Because the One You Know Is Ridiculously Slow

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In 1971, German mathematicians Schönhage and Strassen predicted a faster algorithm for multiplying large numbers, but it remained unproven for ...
InfoQ

MIT Researchers Open-Source Approximate Matrix Multiplication Algorithm MADDNESS

Researchers at MIT's Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) have open-sourced Multiply-ADDitioN-lESS (MADDNESS), an algorithm that speeds up machine learning using approximate matrix ...
GIGAZINE

The strongest shogi AI reaches new ground, DeepMind's AI 'AlphaTensor' succeeds in improving the matrix multiplication algorithm that has been stagnant for over 50 years

The 'algorithm for calculating the matrix product' that AlphaTensor worked on this time is used in various fields related to daily life, such as image processing, game graphics processing, weather ...
New Scientist

Key mathematical tool sees first advance in 24 years

One of the most fundamental mathematical tools outside of everyday arithmetic has seen its first improvement in 24 years. Although the new method of matrix multiplication, an essential tool for ...