A radical new computer could replace electricity with light—and make processing unstoppable

A team of researchers developed “parallel optical matrix-matrix multiplication” (POMMM), which could revolutionize tensor ...
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Tiny silicon structures compute with heat, achieving 99% accurate matrix multiplication

Using a grid, the system designs a set of rectangular silicon structures filled with tiny pores. The system continually adjusts each pixel in the grid until it arrives at the desired mathematical ...
C&EN

Thermodynamics Analysis of a Reaction-Diffusion Matrix Multiplication Computing Unit under ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Implementations of matrix multiplication via diffusion and reactions, thus eliminating ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Lower Energy, High Performance LLM on FPGA Without Matrix Multiplication

A new technical paper titled “Scalable MatMul-free Language Modeling” was published by UC Santa Cruz, Soochow University, UC Davis, and LuxiTech. “Matrix multiplication (MatMul) typically dominates ...
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Researchers run high-performing large language model on the energy needed to power a lightbulb

Large language models such as ChaptGPT have proven to be able to produce remarkably intelligent results, but the energy and monetary costs associated with running these massive algorithms is sky high.
Ars Technica

Matrix multiplication breakthrough could lead to faster, more efficient AI models

I have the sense that some perspective is missing here. People should remember that every Boomer didn't spring wholly evil from the mind of a mid-1940's supervillain. The father figures of the Boomers ...
Quanta Magazine

New Breakthrough Brings Matrix Multiplication Closer to Ideal

Computer scientists are a demanding bunch. For them, it’s not enough to get the right answer to a problem — the goal, almost always, is to get the answer as efficiently as possible. Take the act of ...