SignSGD provably beats SGD by a factor of d under sparse noise via matched ℓ1-norm upper and lower bounds, with an equivalent result for Muon on matrices, and this predicts faster GPT-2 pretraining.
Muon is provably faster with momentum variance reduction
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Convergence rates are derived for Muon-type methods with inexact LMO in the degenerate case under novel assumptions and layer-wise (L^0, L^1)-smoothness for non-convex and star-convex objectives with weight decay.
MuonEq introduces pre-orthogonalization equilibration schemes that improve Muon optimizer performance during large language model pretraining.
Muon's convergence rate depends on an average Hessian curvature along its update directions, which can be much smaller than the worst-case Lipschitz constant when Hessians are low-rank.
MiMuon is a hybrid optimizer that achieves a generalization error bound of O(1/N) independent of the small singular-value gap that limits the original Muon bound, while retaining the same O(1/T^{1/4}) convergence rate.
Proximal stochastic spectral preconditioning converges for nonconvex constrained objectives under heavy-tailed noise, with a variance-reduced version achieving faster rates and a refined analysis of Muon iterations.
Compressed Gluon variants using unbiased/contraction compressors and SARAH-style variance reduction achieve convergence guarantees and lower communication costs in federated learning under layer-wise smoothness.
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When and Why SignSGD Outperforms SGD: A Theoretical Study Based on $\ell_1$-norm Lower Bounds
SignSGD provably beats SGD by a factor of d under sparse noise via matched ℓ1-norm upper and lower bounds, with an equivalent result for Muon on matrices, and this predicts faster GPT-2 pretraining.
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Convergence Analysis of Muon-type Methods with Inexact LMO in the Degenerate Case
Convergence rates are derived for Muon-type methods with inexact LMO in the degenerate case under novel assumptions and layer-wise (L^0, L^1)-smoothness for non-convex and star-convex objectives with weight decay.
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MuonEq: Balancing Before Orthogonalization with Lightweight Equilibration
MuonEq introduces pre-orthogonalization equilibration schemes that improve Muon optimizer performance during large language model pretraining.
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On the Convergence Analysis of Muon
Muon's convergence rate depends on an average Hessian curvature along its update directions, which can be much smaller than the worst-case Lipschitz constant when Hessians are low-rank.
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MiMuon: Mixed Muon Optimizer with Improved Generalization for Large Models
MiMuon is a hybrid optimizer that achieves a generalization error bound of O(1/N) independent of the small singular-value gap that limits the original Muon bound, while retaining the same O(1/T^{1/4}) convergence rate.
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Constrained Stochastic Spectral Preconditioning Converges for Nonconvex Objectives
Proximal stochastic spectral preconditioning converges for nonconvex constrained objectives under heavy-tailed noise, with a variance-reduced version achieving faster rates and a refined analysis of Muon iterations.
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Communication-Efficient Gluon in Federated Learning
Compressed Gluon variants using unbiased/contraction compressors and SARAH-style variance reduction achieve convergence guarantees and lower communication costs in federated learning under layer-wise smoothness.