This survey provides an overview of higher-order tensor decompositions, their applications, and available software. A tensor is a multidimensional or N -way array. Decompositions of higher-order tensors (i.e., N -way arrays with N ≥ 3) have applications in psychometrics, chemometrics, signal processing, numerical linear algebra, computer vision, numerical analysis, data mining, neuroscience, graph analysis, etc. Two particular tensor decompositions can be considered to be higher-order extensions of the matrix singular value decompo- sition: CANDECOMP/PARAFAC (CP) decomposes a tensor as a sum of rank-one tensors, and the Tucker decomposition is a higher-order form of principal components analysis. There are many other tensor decompositions, including INDSCAL, PARAFAC2, CANDELINC, DEDICOM, and PARATUCK2 as well as nonnegative variants of all of the above. The N-way Toolbox and Tensor Toolbox, both for MATLAB, and the Multilinear Engine are examples of software packages for working with tensors.

Abstract. We survey results in algebraic complexity theory, focusing on matrix multiplication. Our goals are (i) to show how open questions in algebraic complexity theory are naturally posed as questions in geometry and representation theory, (ii) to motivate researchers to work on these questions, and (iii) to point out relations with more general problems in geometry. The key geometric objects for our study are the secant varieties of Segre varieties. We explain how these varieties are also useful for algebraic statistics, the study of phylogenetic invariants, and quantum computing.

The complexity of matrix multiplication has attracted a lot of attention in the last forty years. In this paper, instead of considering asymptotic aspects of this problem, we are interested in reducing the cost of multiplication for matrices of small size, say up to 30. Following previous work in a similar vein by Probert & Fischer, Smith, and Mezzarobba, we base our approach on previous algorithms for small matrices, due to Strassen, Winograd, Pan, Laderman,... and show how to exploit these standard algorithms in an improved way. We illustrate the use of our results by generating multiplication code over various rings, such as integers, polynomials, differential operators or linear recurrence operators. Keywords: matrix multiplication, small matrix, complexity.