“In particular, we obtain $4 \times 4$ rank-34 schemes for both multiplying a general matrix by its transpose and an upper-triangular matrix by a general matrix, improving the asymptotic factor from 8/13 (0.615) to 22/37 (0.595).”

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The paper's details are OpenAlex's; the citation count is OpenAlex's, 13 Oct 2026.

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Refuted if either 4 × 4 scheme the e-print prints in full (C = AA^T, upper triangle; C = AB, A upper triangular), read from its TeX, is not an exact integer decomposition of its tensor as the paper defines it (left and right inputs independent), or has more than 34 products, or fewer than 12 recursive calls by the paper's criteria (AA^T: equal factors, or output only in diagonal blocks; triangular times general: triangular factor only in diagonal blocks), so that (34 − q)/(4^ω − q) with ω = log₂ 7 exceeds 22/37.

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Earlier work it rests on, as the citing paper says

• supportedUsing this method, we were able to reduce the number of multiplications for the matrix formats (4, 4, 5) and (5, 5, 5), both in characteristic two and for arbitrary ground fields.takes its method from, as the citing paper says · from the literature · identified by Imago: “Our search procedure follows the framework from [13], but simplified following [16].”
• supportedOur results are new schemes for multiplying $5\times 5$ matrices using $93$ multiplications and $6\times 6$ matrices using $153$ multiplications over arbitrary ground fields.takes its method from, as the citing paper says · from the literature · identified by Imago: “We therefore adopt the simplified approach from [16], performing only flips and plus-transitions, without explicit reduction checks.”
• supportedNumerical experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the adaptive flip graph algorithm, showing a reduction in the number of multiplications for a $4\times 5$ matrix multiplied by a $5\times 5$ matrix from $7…takes its method from, as the citing paper says · from the literature · identified by Imago: “It was shown in [13] that the flip graph becomes connected once one allows the plus-transitions introduced in [14], namely compositions of an inverse reduction…”