arXiv Machine Learning

CacheMuon: Using Temporal Preconditioning To Approximate Polar Factor

arXiv:2606. 16371v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Muon is an optimizer that computes updates using the polar factor of the momentum matrix and has shown strong empirical performance across a range of training settings.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 29

Aurora: A Leverage-Aware Spectral Optimizer

arXiv:2606. 27715v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We show that for tall matrix parameters, like projection matrices in the MLP layers, the Muon update can have row norms that are arbitrarily non-uniform.

By Alec Dewulf, Dhruv Pai, Li Yang, Ashley Zhang, Ben Keigwin
arXiv AI
Jul 16

Reassessing Muon for Matrix Factorization

arXiv:2607. 13246v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Muon has recently emerged as a strong optimizer for large-scale deep learning, where it reshapes gradient updates through approximate orthogonalization and has been reported to outperform Adam and AdamW in large language model training.

By Ali Parviz, Gal Mishne, Alex Cloninger
arXiv AI
6d ago

Dion3: Full-Stack Orthogonal Updates

arXiv:2608. 11612v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Muon optimizer incurs a significant overhead cost due to its cubic-time Newton-Schulz orthogonalization step.

By Noah Amsel, Jack Zhang, Kwangjun Ahn, Ali Naeimi, Austin Feng, Berlin Chen, Tri Dao, John Langford