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Last active April 20, 2025 14:33
Accelerating Discrete Program Search with SUP Nodes

Fast Discrete Program Search 2

I am investigating how to use Bend (a parallel language) to accelerate Symbolic AI; in special, Discrete Program Search. Basically, think of it as an alternative to LLMs, GPTs, NNs, that is also capable of generating code, but by entirely different means. This kind of approach was never scaled with mass compute before - it wasn't possible! - but Bend changes this. So, my idea was to do it, and see where it goes.

Now, while I was implementing some candidate algorithms on Bend, I realized that, rather than mass parallelism, I could use an entirely different mechanism to speed things up: SUP Nodes. Basically, it is a feature that Bend inherited from its underlying model ("Interaction Combinators") that, in simple terms, allows us to combine multiple functions into a single superposed one, and apply them all to an argument "at the same time". In short, it allows us to call N functions at a fraction of the expected cost. Or, in simple terms: why parallelize when we can share?

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Last active September 21, 2023 03:14
Cubehelix II
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