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

Mathematicians have proven the existence of a faster algorithm for multiplying large numbers, making multiplication and other ...
Hackaday

Hacking Multiplication With Karatsuba’s Algorithm

People tend to obsess over making computer software faster. You can, of course, just crank up the clock speed and add more processors, but often the most powerful way to make something faster is to ...
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 ...
Ars Technica

DeepMind breaks 50-year math record using AI; new record falls a week later

Matrix multiplication is at the heart of many machine learning breakthroughs, and it just got faster—twice. Last week, DeepMind announced it discovered a more efficient way to perform matrix ...
The Tufts Daily

Novel algorithm for matrix multiplication opens door to more efficient human-computer interactions

What do encrypted messages, recognizing speech commands and running simulations to predict the weather have in common? They all rely on matrix multiplication for accurate calculations. DeepMind, an ...