{"id":148109,"date":"2022-10-13T19:26:35","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T00:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/deepmind-breaks-50-year-math-record-using-ai-new-record-falls-a-week-later"},"modified":"2022-10-13T19:26:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T00:26:35","slug":"deepmind-breaks-50-year-math-record-using-ai-new-record-falls-a-week-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/deepmind-breaks-50-year-math-record-using-ai-new-record-falls-a-week-later","title":{"rendered":"DeepMind breaks 50-year math record using AI; new record falls a week later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/deepmind-breaks-50-year-math-record-using-ai-new-record-falls-a-week-later.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Matrix multiplication is at the heart of many machine learning breakthroughs, and it just got faster\u2014twice. Last week, DeepMind announced it discovered a more efficient way to perform matrix multiplication, conquering a 50-year-old record. This week, two Austrian researchers at Johannes Kepler University Linz claim they have bested that new record by one step.<\/p>\n<p>In 1969, a German mathematician named Volker Strassen discovered the previous-best algorithm for multiplying 4\u00d74 matrices, which reduces the number of steps necessary to perform a matrix calculation. For example, multiplying two 4\u00d74 matrices together using a traditional schoolroom method would take 64 multiplications, while Strassen\u2019s algorithm can perform the same feat in 49 multiplications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matrix multiplication is at the heart of many machine learning breakthroughs, and it just got faster\u2014twice. Last week, DeepMind announced it discovered a more efficient way to perform matrix multiplication, conquering a 50-year-old record. This week, two Austrian researchers at Johannes Kepler University Linz claim they have bested that new record by one step. In [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2229,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-mathematics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}