arXiv Machine Learning By Alec Dewulf, Dhruv Pai, Li Yang, Ashley Zhang, Ben Keigwin

Aurora: A Leverage-Aware Spectral Optimizer

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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.

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arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 16

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.

By Bishnu Dev (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi, UAE), Sushil Bohara (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi, UAE), Martin Tak\'a\v{c} (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi, UAE), Samuel Horv\'ath (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi, UAE)
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

Convergence Bound and Critical Batch Size of Muon Optimizer

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.

By Naoki Sato, Hiroki Naganuma, Hideaki Iiduka
arXiv AI
Jun 4

Spectral Scaling Laws of Muon

arXiv:2606. 04058v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Orthonormalized update rules have rapidly become a leading choice of optimizer for training large language models, with recent open-source state-of-the-art models adopting Muon.

By Gagik Magakyan, Pablo Parrilo, Asuman Ozdaglar