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Abstract: Code-based Distributed Matrix Multiplication (DMM) has been widely studied as an effective method for large-scale matrix computations in distributed systems. Two central challenges in ...

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For this week’s Open Questions column, Dhruv Khullar is filling in for Joshua Rothman. When David Fajgenbaum was a twenty-five-year-old medical student, at the University of Pennsylvania, he started ...

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Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of computing a matrix inverse using the Newton iteration algorithm. Compared to other algorithms, Newton ...