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
arXiv:2607. 20512v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Muon optimizer reaches the grokking threshold on modular arithmetic faster than AdamW.
By Yufeng Wang
arXiv:2606. 15702v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern deep learning optimization features heterogeneous parameter structures, noisy gradients, and highly nonconvex landscapes, posing significant challenges for both algorithm design and theoretical analysis.
By Bohao Ma, Junyu Zhang, Chuan He
arXiv:2608. 03941v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Muon is a recent optimizer that orthogonalizes the update to each weight matrix with a Newton-Schulz iteration, which performs steepest descent under the spectral norm.
By Arslan Battalov, Karim Kramin, Alexander Markotenko, Sofia Sinitsina
arXiv:2602. 03001v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: To maximize hardware utilization, modern machine learning systems typically employ large constant or manually tuned batch size schedules, relying on heuristics that are brittle and costly to tune.
By Hiroki Naganuma, Shagun Gupta, Youssef Briki, Ioannis Mitliagkas, Irina Rish, Parameswaran Raman, Hao-Jun Michael Shi
arXiv:2607. 23777v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The discovery of scaling laws has motivated training neural networks on ever increasing quantities of data.
By Anuj Apte