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#AI Reveals New Possibilities in #MatrixMultiplication.
Last month, a team at the artificial intelligence company #DeepMind showed how to tackle the problem from a new direction, reporting in a paper in Nature that they’d successfully trained a neural network to discover new fast algorithms for matrix multiplication. It was as if the #AI had found an unknown strategy for solving a monstrously complex Rubik’s Cube.

“It’s a very neat result,” said #JoshAlman, a computer scientist at #ColumbiaUniversity. But he and other matrix multiplication specialists also emphasized that such #AI assistance will complement rather than replace existing methods — at least in the near term. “It’s like a proof of concept for something that could become a breakthrough,” Alman said. The result will simply help researchers on their quest.