Report on the second Toulouse Tensor Workshop

TL;DR

This report summarizes the discussions and developments from the second Toulouse Tensor Workshop, focusing on tensor standardization, community feedback, and future directions for tensor software and interfaces in scientific computing.

Contribution

It documents the community's feedback on the tensor interface standard and discusses future standardization efforts and higher-level tensor functionalities.

Findings

Community provided feedback on the low-level tensor interface standard.

Discussion on future directions for tensor standardization and higher-level interfaces.

Initiated plans for supporting tensor decompositions and structured sparsity.

Abstract

This report documents the program of the second Toulouse Tensor Workshop which took place at the University of Toulouse on September 17-19, 2025, and summarizes the main points of discussion. This workshop follows the first Workshop (CECAM workshop on Tensor Contraction Library Standardization), which took place in Toulouse one year earlier, on May 24-25, 2024 and led to the formation of a tensor standardization working group, which has since specified a low-level standard interface for tensor operations available freely on GitHub. The 2025 workshop brought together developers of applications which rely extensively on tensor computations such as quantum many-body simulations in chemistry and physics (material science and electronic structure calculations), as well as developers and experts of tensor software who have the know-how to provide the technical support for such applications. The workshop enabled the community to provide feedback on the specified low-level interface and how it can be further refined. It also initiated a discussion on how the standardization efforts should be oriented in the near feature, in particular on what should be higher-level interfaces and how to tackle other requirements of the community such as tensor decompositions, symmetric tensors and structured sparsity support.