How low can the exponent for multiplying two square matrices go?
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DiscussionFound Sep 20, 2026
A source discussing Matrix multiplication
scalable-ai.eecs.berkeley.edu contains the excerpt below in a discussion related to Matrix multiplication. Read the source for the surrounding context.
“A large language model proposing edits to a piece of code, an evaluator scoring them, the best edits surviving and proliferating”
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ainews.imrenagi.com contains the excerpt below in a discussion related to Matrix multiplication. Read the source for the surrounding context.
“AlphaEvolve extended an already successful human-designed and ML-enabled optimization system”
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muhammad-ahmed.com contains the excerpt below in a discussion related to Matrix multiplication. Read the source for the surrounding context.
“AlphaEvolve did not find an algorithm and did not produce a proof.”
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Dylan16807 writes the excerpt below in a discussion related to Matrix multiplication. Read the source for the surrounding context.
“We're way into diminishing returns in matrix multiplication, and being clever about ALUs and cache layout is likely to dwarf any asymptotic improvements”
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Dylan16807 writes the excerpt below in a discussion related to Matrix multiplication. Read the source for the surrounding context.
“If you tell someone they can't use a matrix multiplication with better asymptotic performance than n^2.3755 from 1990 they're going to shrug and not care.”
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Background: AlphaEvolve reports new matrix-multiplication algorithms
deepmind.google contains the excerpt below in a discussion related to Matrix multiplication. Read the source for the surrounding context.
“AlphaEvolve designed many components of a novel gradient-based optimization procedure that discovered multiple new algorithms for matrix multiplication”
Historical context published May 14, 2025, not a new September 2026 result. The source describes algorithms found by AlphaEvolve; it does not establish the optimal matrix-multiplication exponent.