OpenAI reports a depth-five lower bound for iterated matrix multiplication

Over every characteristic-zero field, for all sufficiently large n every syntactically homogeneous depth-five ΣΠΣΠΣ circuit computing the (1,1) entry of n independent n×n matrix products has at least n^(√n/400) gates.

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Over every characteristic-zero field, for all sufficiently large n every syntactically homogeneous depth-five ΣΠΣΠΣ circuit computing the (1,1) entry of n independent n×n matrix products has at least n^(√n/400) gates.

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If correct, establishes a superpolynomial lower bound for a natural polynomial at homogeneous depth five.

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Does iterated matrix multiplication require superpolynomial homogeneous depth-five circuit size?

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