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by godelski 949 days ago
Not an answer, but a question that I hope someone can answer. Is the lack of speed because of a lack of optimization or compute? Is this something that could be fixed by an accelerator?

It's often hard to compare things in an accurate way. I mean many current methods might already have hardware specific acceleration and researchers aren't always good at optimization (why should they be?). So is the problem of FHE a bigger lack of just not enough people (specialists) putting in time to optimize it or is it so computationally intensive that we need hardware to get better before it becomes practical? I mean look at llama.cpp and how much faster it is or stable diffusion? Sure, both kinda slow (diffusion's no GAN and SD's not straight diffusion) but very usable for many applications.

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>Is the lack of speed because of a lack of optimization or compute?

No.

>Is this something that could be fixed by an accelerator?

No.