arXiv:2604. 09967v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Muon has emerged as a promising optimizer for large-scale foundation model pre-training by exploiting the matrix structure of neural network updates through iterative orthogonalization.
By Ziyue Liu, Ruijie Zhang, Zhengyang Wang, Yequan Zhao, Yupeng Su, Zi Yang, Zheng Zhang
arXiv:2512. 04632v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Orthogonality-based optimizers, such as Muon, have recently shown strong performance across large-scale training and community-driven efficiency challenges.
By Thibaut Boissin (IRIT-MISFIT), Thomas Massena (DTIPG - SNCF, IRIT-MISFIT), Franck Mamalet (IRIT-MISFIT), Mathieu Serrurier (IRIT-MISFIT)
arXiv:2606. 00371v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Muon optimizers improve neural-network training by replacing ill-conditioned momentum updates with approximately semi-orthogonal updates.
By Hua Huang
arXiv:2607. 17620v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) makes finetuning large language models cheaper by adding to each weight matrix a trainable low-rank update parameterized as the product of two matrices.
By Nikhil Ghosh, Tetiana Parshakova, Robert M. Gower
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:2608. 05088v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Muon has recently emerged as a promising alternative to AdamW for language model pretraining by orthogonalizing momentum matrices using Newton-Schulz iterations.
By Tongle Wu, Huanyu Dong, Ying Sun, Ziye Ma
arXiv:2606. 30461v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: State space models (SSMs) have emerged as efficient linear-time alternatives to attention for long-sequence modeling.
By Thai-Khanh Nguyen, Ngoc-Bich-Uyen Vo, Thieu N. Vo, Tan M. Nguyen, Cuong Pham
arXiv:2605. 11396v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The Muon optimizer has emerged as a compelling alternative to Adam for training large language models, achieving remarkable computational savings through gradient orthogonalization.
By Yupeng Su, Ruijie Zhang, Ziyue Liu, Yequan Zhao, Zheng Zhang
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: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
arXiv:2606. 27153v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Matrix-orthogonalization-based optimizers, exemplified by Muon, have demonstrated strong convergence behavior across a wide range of modern deep learning workloads.
By Vincent Chen, Starrick Liu, Regis Cheng, Dance Yang, Shalfun Li, Ryan Yu, Lucy Liang, Hang Su, Roy Gan, Hao Wang, Qian Wang
arXiv:2608. 04607v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) optimization methods are the standard instruments for the training of deep neural networks (DNNs).
By Thang Do, Steffen Dereich, Arnulf Jentzen