matrix multiplication
3 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jun 26, 2025 by Matej Balog · across every show →
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Jun 26, 2025 positive
Balog: AlphaTensor was the first AI to discover superhuman matrix multiplication algorithms
“And kind of the first breakthrough we had in this space was in twenty-twenty-two when we released a system called Alpha Tensor. And so that was a system that was an AI system using reinforcement learning. That for a very specific, but a fundamental computation…”
Jun 26, 2025 positive
Balog: DeepMind benchmarked AlphaEvolve against heavily optimized Google infrastructure problems
“The problems we chose to apply Alpha Evolve to in the first instance both on the scientific side and the practical side, We deliberately chose problems which have been worked on for a very long time by the very best people. So on the, you know, on the scientif…”
Jun 26, 2025
Kohli: Large matrix multiplication algorithms are too intricate for human intuition alone
“As you sort of go to larger sizes, the space is so huge. The constructions are not sort of something which is very natural. These are very involved and intricate, intricate, intricate sort of constructions that would be very hard to discover by chance. So it's…”