Einstein Meets Codd: Tensor Algebra through the Lens of Relational Algebra

Speaker: Prof. Amir Shaikhha, Full Professor (W3) at TU Darmstadt and Hessian.AI Organiser: <a href="https://people.epfl.ch/anna.herlihy">Anna Herlihy</a> (DIAS and LAMP laboratories) <div class="elementToProof"><strong>Abstract</strong>: Tensor processing systems and relational database systems have historically evolved in separate communities, despite sharing deep algebraic structure. This talk explores recent efforts to bridge these worlds by unifying tensor computation and relational query processing, either by expressing tensor operations as relational queries or by developing new algebraic languages that capture both paradigms. I will then discuss how techniques at the interface of these communities can be used to accelerate workloads in databases, machine learning, q