Batch Acquisition Function Evaluations and Decouple Optimizer Updates for Faster Bayesian Optimization

The introduction of Low-Rank GEMM presents a significant advancement in matrix multiplication efficiency, utilizing low-rank approximations to reduce computational complexity from cubic to sub-quadratic levels while leveraging FP8 precision on NVIDIA RTX 4090 hardware. This method achieves remarkable performance metrics, including up to 378 TFLOPS and 75% memory savings compared to traditional approaches.

PrismSSL is a newly released Python library that consolidates various self-supervised learning methods across multiple modalities, including audio, vision, and graphs, into a single modular codebase. It allows users to easily install, configure, and run pretext training with minimal code, while also enabling the reproduction of benchmarks and extension of the framework with new methods.

The SciPy library has announced a significant update to its spatial.transform module, which now supports differentiable 3D transformations compatible with various array libraries, including JAX, PyTorch, and CuPy. This overhaul addresses previous limitations related to GPU acceleration and automatic differentiation, enhancing its applicability in machine learning workflows.

TorchQuantumDistributed (tqd) has been introduced as a PyTorch-based library designed for accelerator-agnostic differentiable quantum state vector simulation at scale, facilitating the study of learnable parameterized quantum circuits with high qubit counts.

Recent advancements in seismic wave propagation simulations have highlighted the use of neural operators, which significantly accelerate the process of full waveform inversion. This method, leveraging machine learning, offers a faster alternative to traditional computational techniques like finite difference or finite element methods.