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6 claims from 6 papers

1. Computer Science › Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs

   Discovering faster matrix multiplication algorithms with reinforcement learning

   Fawzi, Balog, Huang et al. · Nature · 2022

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   1. Supported · 71%“Particularly relevant is the case of 4 × 4 matrices in a finite field, where AlphaTensor’s algorithm improves on Strassen’s two-level algorithm for the first time, to our knowledge, since its discovery 50 years ago.”

2. Computer Science › Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications

   AlphaEvolve: A coding agent for scientific and algorithmic discovery

   Alexander, Ngân, Marvin et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2025

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   1. Supported · 71%“Notably, AlphaEvolve developed a search algorithm that found a procedure to multiply two $4 \times 4$ complex-valued matrices using $48$ scalar multiplications; offering the first improvement, after 56 years, over Strassen's algorithm in this setting.”

3. Computer Science › Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs

   A New General-Purpose Method to Multiply 3x3 Matrices Using Only 23 Multiplications

   Courtois, Bard and Hulme · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2011

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   1. Unchecked“We present a new fully general non-commutative solution with 23 multiplications and show that this solution is new and is NOT an equivalent variant of the Laderman's original solution.”

4. Mathematics › Tensor decomposition and applications

   New lower bounds for the border rank of matrix multiplication

   Landsberg and Ottaviani · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2011

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   1. Supported · 71%“The border rank of the matrix multiplication operator for n by n matrices is a standard measure of its complexity. Using techniques from algebraic geometry and representation theory, we show the border rank is at least 2n^2-n.”

5. Computer Science › Matrix Theory and Algorithms

   New ways to multiply 3 x 3-matrices

   Heule, Kauers and Seidl · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2019

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   1. Unchecked“In this article, we extend this list considerably by providing more than 13 000 new and mutually inequivalent schemes for multiplying 3 x 3-matrices using 23 multiplications.”

6. Computer Science › Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs

   Flip Graphs for Matrix Multiplication

   Kauers and Moosbauer · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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   1. Supported · 71%“Using 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.”