Manifold constraints via the new MACRO optimizer independently bound activation scales and enforce rotational equilibrium in LLM pre-training, subsuming RMS normalization and decoupled weight decay while delivering competitive performance with convergence guarantees.
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Splitting weight matrices into a fixed-norm direction and learnable per-row/column magnitudes improves LLM training over AdamW/Muon, removes weight decay and warmup, and transfers the optimal LR across width.
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Demystifying Manifold Constraints in LLM Pre-training
Manifold constraints via the new MACRO optimizer independently bound activation scales and enforce rotational equilibrium in LLM pre-training, subsuming RMS normalization and decoupled weight decay while delivering competitive performance with convergence guarantees.
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Improving Neural Network Training by Decoupling the Magnitude and Direction of Weight Vectors
Splitting weight matrices into a fixed-norm direction and learnable per-row/column magnitudes improves LLM training over AdamW/Muon, removes weight decay and warmup, and transfers the optimal LR across width.