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: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.
By Xuqi Zhu, Huaizhi Zhang, JunKyu Lee, Jiacheng Zhu, Chandrajit Pal, Sangeet Saha, Klaus D. McDonald-Maier, Xiaojun Zhai
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.
By Kaiwen Chen, Shuhai Zhang, Qiuwu Chen, Zimo Liu, Linxiao Li, Ying Sun, Yuchen Li, Yifan Zhang, Bo Han, Mingkui Tan
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
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. 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