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1 year ago
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#Artificial Intelligence
How AI Discovered a Faster Matrix Multiplication Algorithm
Researchers at Google research lab DeepMind trained an AI system called AlphaTensor to find new, faster algorithms to tackle an age-old math problem: matrix multiplication. Advances in matrix multiplication could lead to breakthroughs in physics, engineering and computer science.
AlphaTensor quickly rediscovered - and surpassed, for some cases - the reigning algorithm discovered by German mathematician Volker Strassen in 1969.
However, mathematicians soon took inspiration from the results of the game-playing neural network to make advances of their own.
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