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Oct 28, 2026
From Nova to Magnetar: Three Years of Research with Srinath Setty
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26:12NicoHOST
How did you find developing this data parallel R1CS for VMs? like a whole processor.
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26:18Srinath SettyGUEST
Yeah, I think maybe if we take a step back, if you look at how existing ZKVMs work prior to Magnet, I think there were broadly two approaches to designing ZKVMs.
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26:43Srinath SettyGUEST
So there is a separate witness vector, or I think it's also commonly referred to as a table.
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34:59Anna RoseHOST
But why are you getting this improvement? Where is that coming from? You talked about the scheme and how you could plug and play stuff, but I don't really get what part of the stack is leading to that efficiency gain.