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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

We make an in-depth study of the known border rank (i.e. approximate) algorithms for the matrix multiplication tensor encoding the multiplication of an n x 2 matrix by a 2 x 2 matrix.

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-09-29 J. M. Landsberg , Nicholas Ryder

This paper considers the problem of calculating the matrix multiplication of two massive matrices $\mathbf{A}$ and $\mathbf{B}$ distributedly. We provide a modulo technique that can be applied to coded distributed matrix multiplication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Zhiquan Tan , Dingli Yuan , Zihao Wang , Zhongyi Huang

A tight lower bound for required I/O when computing an ordinary matrix-matrix multiplication on a processor with two layers of memory is established. Prior work obtained weaker lower bounds by reasoning about the number of segments needed…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Tyler Michael Smith , Bradley Lowery , Julien Langou , Robert A. van de Geijn

We explore new approaches for finding matrix multiplication algorithms in the commutative setting by adapting the flip graph technique: a method previously shown to be effective for discovering fast algorithms in the non-commutative case.…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Isaac Wood

We show that the border support rank of the tensor corresponding to two-by-two matrix multiplication is seven over the complex numbers. We do this by constructing two polynomials that vanish on all complex tensors with format…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Markus Bläser , Matthias Christandl , Jeroen Zuiddam

Matrix multiplication consumes a large fraction of the time taken in many machine-learning algorithms. Thus, accelerator chips that perform matrix multiplication faster than conventional processors or even GPU's are of increasing interest.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Daniel Cussen , Jeffrey D. Ullman

Let $M_{\langle u,v,w\rangle}\in C^{uv}\otimes C^{vw}\otimes C^{wu}$ denote the matrix multiplication tensor (and write $M_n=M_{\langle n,n,n\rangle}$) and let $det_3\in ( C^9)^{\otimes 3}$ denote the determinant polynomial considered as a…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-20 Austin Conner , Alicia Harper , J. M. Landsberg

In this paper, we present an improved algorithm for the All Pairs Non-decreasing Paths (APNP) problem on weighted simple digraphs, which has running time $\tilde{O}(n^{\frac{3 + \omega}{2}}) = \tilde{O}(n^{2.686})$. Here $n$ is the number…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Ran Duan , Ce Jin , Hongxun Wu

We implement an Augmented Lagrangian method to minimize a constrained least-squares cost function designed to find polyadic decompositions of the matrix multiplication tensor. We use this method to obtain new discrete decompositions and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-05 Charlotte Vermeylen , Marc Van Barel

We present a new algorithm for fast matrix multiplication using tensor decompositions which have special features. Thanks to these features we obtain exponents lower than what the rank of the tensor decomposition suggests. In particular for…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Manuel Kauers , Jakob Moosbauer , Isaac Wood

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

Tensor accelerators have gained popularity because they provide a cheap and efficient solution for speeding up computational-expensive tasks in Deep Learning and, more recently, in other Scientific Computing applications. However, since…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Paolo Sylos Labini , Massimo Bernaschi , Francesco Silvestri , Flavio Vella

In distributed matrix multiplication, a common scenario is to assign each worker a fraction of the multiplication task, by partitioning the input matrices into smaller submatrices. In particular, by dividing two input matrices into…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Qian Yu , A. Salman Avestimehr

Fast matrix-by-matrix multiplication (hereafter MM) is a highly recognized research subject. The record upper bound 3 of 1968 on the exponent of the complexity MM decreased below 2.38 by 1987, applies to celebrated problems in many areas of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Victor Y. Pan

Matrix multiplication optimization remains a fundamental challenge in computational mathematics. This work introduces a novel approach that discovers matrix multiplication schemes whose coefficients are restricted to the set $\{-1, 0, 1\}$…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2025-12-02 A. I. Perminov

Cryptographic primitives have been used for various non-cryptographic objectives, such as eliminating or reducing randomness and interaction. We show how to use cryptography to improve the time complexity of solving computational problems.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Vinod Vaikuntanathan , Or Zamir

Matrix multiplication is the foundation from much of the success from high performance technologies like deep learning, scientific simulations, and video graphics. High level programming languages like Python and R rely on highly optimized…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Ethan Davis

We determine the border subrank of higher order structure tensors of several families of algebras, and in particular obtain the following results. (1) We determine tight bounds on the border subrank of $k$-fold matrix multiplication and…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Chia-Yu Chang , Fulvio Gesmundo , Jeroen Zuiddam

We present effective upper bounds on the symmetric bilinear complexity of multiplication in extensions of a base finite field Fp2 of prime square order, obtained by combining estimates on gaps between prime numbers together with an optimal…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-01-04 Hugues Randriam