arXiv:2606. 27216v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Muon-type optimizers construct update directions for dense neural-network weights by applying a finite Newton-Schulz map to momentum-gradient matrices.
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.
arXiv:2407. 02362v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modern deep neural networks heavily rely on a large number of multiply-accumulate operations, which constitute the predominant computational cost.
arXiv:2606. 14187v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-scale neural network training increasingly relies on matrix-aware optimizers that exploit the structure of weight parameters beyond element-wise adaptation.
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).
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.
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.
arXiv:2608. 04407v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Memory-efficient matrix optimizers such as Sinkhorn gradient descent remove most AdamW optimizer state for dense Transformer matrices, but direct application to Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) training is unreliable.
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: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.
arXiv:2605. 18106v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: A striking geometric disparity has long persisted in the practice of deep learning.
arXiv:2607. 22444v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: For scale-invariant deep networks, Hyperball-style optimizers have shown strong performance in large-scale training by fixing the norms of matrix-valued parameters and normalizing updates.
arXiv:2507. 01598v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Muon, a recently proposed optimizer that leverages the inherent matrix structure of neural network parameters, has demonstrated strong empirical performance, indicating its potential as a successor to standard optimizers such as AdamW.