Can artificial intelligence (AI) create its own algorithms to speed up matrix multiplication, one of machine learning’s most fundamental tasks? Today, in a paper published in Nature, DeepMind ...

The algorithm is able to re-discover older matrix multiplication algorithms and improve upon its own to discover newer and faster algorithms. “AlphaTensor is the first AI system for discovering novel, ...

For example, multiplying two 4×4 matrices together using a traditional schoolroom method would take 64 multiplications, while Strassen's algorithm can perform the same feat in 49 multiplications.