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We study the known techniques for designing Matrix Multiplication algorithms. The two main approaches are the Laser method of Strassen, and the Group theoretic approach of Cohn and Umans. We define a generalization based on zeroing outs…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Josh Alman , Virginia Vassilevska Williams

Determining the asymptotic algebraic complexity of matrix multiplication, succinctly represented by the matrix multiplication exponent $\omega$, is a central problem in algebraic complexity theory. The best upper bounds on $\omega$, leading…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Matthias Christandl , Péter Vrana , Jeroen Zuiddam

The complexity of matrix multiplication is measured in terms of $\omega$, the smallest real number such that two $n\times n$ matrices can be multiplied using $O(n^{\omega+\epsilon})$ field operations for all $\epsilon>0$; the best bound…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Josh Alman , Virginia Vassilevska Williams

This paper presents a method to analyze the powers of a given trilinear form (a special kind of algebraic constructions also called a tensor) and obtain upper bounds on the asymptotic complexity of matrix multiplication. Compared with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-05 François Le Gall

In this work, we prove limitations on the known methods for designing matrix multiplication algorithms. Alman and Vassilevska Williams recently defined the Universal Method, which substantially generalizes all the known approaches including…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Josh Alman

We propose a strategy for the generation of fast and accurate versions of non-commutative recursive matrix multiplication algorithms. To generate these algorithms, we consider matrix and tensor norm bounds governing the stability and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Jean-Guillaume Dumas , Clément Pernet , Alexandre Sedoglavic

In the past few years, successive improvements of the asymptotic complexity of square matrix multiplication have been obtained by developing novel methods to analyze the powers of the Coppersmith-Winograd tensor, a basic construction…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-05 François Le Gall , Florent Urrutia

Fast matrix multiplication is one of the most fundamental problems in algorithm research. The exponent of the optimal time complexity of matrix multiplication is usually denoted by $\omega$. This paper discusses new ideas for improving the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Ran Duan , Hongxun Wu , Renfei Zhou

In a paper published in 1981, Sch\"onhage showed that large total matrix multiplications can be reduced to powers of partial matrix multiplication tensors, which correspond to the bilinear computation task of multiplying matrices with some…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Péter Vrana

Matrix multiplication (hereafter we use the acronym MM) is among the most fundamental operations of modern computations. The efficiency of its performance depends on various factors, in particular vectorization, data movement and arithmetic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-02-09 Victor Y. Pan

Algebraic matrix multiplication algorithms are designed by bounding the rank of matrix multiplication tensors, and then using a recursive method. However, designing algorithms in this way quickly leads to large constant factors: if one…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Josh Alman , Hantao Yu

In 2003, Cohn and Umans described a framework for proving upper bounds on the exponent $\omega$ of matrix multiplication by reducing matrix multiplication to group algebra multiplication, and in 2005 Cohn, Kleinberg, Szegedy, and Umans…

We develop an automated framework for proving lower bounds on the bilinear complexity of matrix multiplication over finite fields. Our approach systematically combines orbit classification of the restricted first matrix and dynamic…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Chengu Wang

The main contribution of this paper is a new improved variant of the laser method for designing matrix multiplication algorithms. Building upon the recent techniques of [Duan, Wu, Zhou, FOCS 2023], the new method introduces several new…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Yinzhan Xu , Zixuan Xu , Renfei Zhou

We study the algorithmic problem of multiplying large matrices that are rectangular. We prove that the method that has been used to construct the fastest algorithms for rectangular matrix multiplication cannot give algorithms with…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Matthias Christandl , François Le Gall , Vladimir Lysikov , Jeroen Zuiddam

What is the time complexity of matrix multiplication of sparse integer matrices with $m_{in}$ nonzeros in the input and $m_{out}$ nonzeros in the output? This paper provides improved upper bounds for this question for almost any choice of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Amir Abboud , Karl Bringmann , Nick Fischer , Marvin Künnemann

In 1969, V. Strassen improves the classical~2x2 matrix multiplication algorithm. The current upper bound for 3x3 matrix multiplication was reached by J.B. Laderman in 1976. This note presents a geometric relationship between Strassen and…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2017-05-11 Alexandre Sedoglavic

Determining the matrix multiplication exponent $\omega$ is one of the greatest open problems in theoretical computer science. We show that it is impossible to prove $\omega = 2$ by starting with structure tensors of modules of fixed degree…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Maciej Wojtala

Until a few years ago, the fastest known matrix multiplication algorithm, due to Coppersmith and Winograd (1990), ran in time $O(n^{2.3755})$. Recently, a surge of activity by Stothers, Vassilevska-Williams, and Le Gall has led to an…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Andris Ambainis , Yuval Filmus , François Le Gall

One of the most famous conjectures in computer algebra is that matrix multiplication might be feasible in not much more than quadratic time. The best known exponent is 2.376, due to Coppersmith and Winograd. Many attempts to solve this…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2011-08-22 Nicolas T. Courtois , Gregory V. Bard , Daniel Hulme
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