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Are there efficient probabilistic multiplication algorithms that use O(n log n) gates?

Recently Harvey and Hoeven published a paper proving that integer multiplication can be performed using at most O(n log n) operations. … But suppose that we only wanted a probabilistic multiplication circuit, which returned the wrong result with probability at most epsilon. …
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Where does the lg(lg(N)) factor come from in Schönhage–Strassen's run time?

According to page 53 of Modern Computer Arithmetic (pdf), all of the steps in the Schönhage–Strassen Algorithm cost $O(N \cdot \lg(N))$ except for the recursion step which ends up costing $O(N\cdot \l …
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Why is the transform in Schönhage–Strassen's multiplication algorithm cheap?

The Schönhage–Strassen multiplication algorithm works by turning multiplications of size $N$ into many multiplications of size $lg(N)$ with a number-theoretic transform, and recursing. …
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Quantum circuits for multiply-accumulation

Classically, multiplication can be done in $O(n \ \lg(n) \ 8^{\lg^* n})$ steps on a multi-tape Turing machine via Fürer's algorithm. …
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Why doesn't Knuth's linear-time multiplication algorithm "count"?

The wikipedia page on multiplication algorithms mentions an interesting one by Donald Knuth. … The article acts like this algorithm somehow doesn't count as a "true" multiplication algorithm. …
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Is matrix "adjoint-squaring" faster than general matrix multiplication?

The best known algorithm(s) for matrix multiplication of $n$-dimensional matrices take $O(n^{2.37})$ time. However, that's for matrices with totally independent contents. … I was wondering if knowing $V = U^\dagger$, i.e. that $V$ is the conjugate transpose of $U$, allowed for asymptotically faster matrix multiplication. …
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