Tensor contraction is a widely used operation that comes up quite often
when performing operations on tensors. It is widely used in many domains
such as analysis of chemical compounds. There are a lot of ongoing
efforts to speed-up tensor contraction.
Many of the softwares for numerical computation have sound
implementations of tensor contraction. In this light, I believe it will
be a good idea to have a fast implementation of tensor contraction in
Octave for muti-core systems, since tensor contraction offers a lot of
scope for parallelism. I would like to propose this as a project for
GSoC 2017 and get involved with it.
Please share your thoughts on the suggestion.