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Second-Order Muon Done Right: A Principled Marriage of Spectral Geometry and Curvature

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This paper cites 2024 , howpublished =.

Second-Order Muon Done Right: A Principled Marriage of Spectral Geometry and Curvature 2024 , howpublished =

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Second-Order Muon Done Right: A Principled Marriage of Spectral Geometry and Curvature Preconditioned Norms: A Unified Framework for Steepest Descent, Quasi-Newton and Adaptive Methods , journal =

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This paper cites Muon$^2$: Boosting Muon via Adaptive Second-Moment Preconditioning.

Second-Order Muon Done Right: A Principled Marriage of Spectral Geometry and Curvature Muon$^2$: Boosting Muon via Adaptive Second-Moment Preconditioning

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This paper cites MALT: Lightweight Curvature-Aware Muon via Diagonal Preconditioning.

Second-Order Muon Done Right: A Principled Marriage of Spectral Geometry and Curvature MALT: Lightweight Curvature-Aware Muon via Diagonal Preconditioning

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Second-Order Muon Done Right: A Principled Marriage of Spectral Geometry and Curvature arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.21750 , year =

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Second-Order Muon Done Right: A Principled Marriage of Spectral Geometry and Curvature arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.01472 , year =

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This paper cites The Potential of Second-Order Optimization for LLMs: A Study with Full Gauss-Newton.

Second-Order Muon Done Right: A Principled Marriage of Spectral Geometry and Curvature The Potential of Second-Order Optimization for LLMs: A Study with Full Gauss-Newton

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This paper cites Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Machine Learning , year =.

Second-Order Muon Done Right: A Principled Marriage of Spectral Geometry and Curvature Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Machine Learning , year =

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Second-Order Muon Done Right: A Principled Marriage of Spectral Geometry and Curvature Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Machine Learning , year =

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This paper cites Kingma and Jimmy Ba , title =.

Second-Order Muon Done Right: A Principled Marriage of Spectral Geometry and Curvature Kingma and Jimmy Ba , title =

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This paper cites Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Machine Learning , year =.

Second-Order Muon Done Right: A Principled Marriage of Spectral Geometry and Curvature Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Machine Learning , year =

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This paper cites Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems , volume =.

Second-Order Muon Done Right: A Principled Marriage of Spectral Geometry and Curvature Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems , volume =

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Second-Order Muon Done Right: A Principled Marriage of Spectral Geometry and Curvature Journal of Machine Learning Research , volume =

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Second-Order Muon Done Right: A Principled Marriage of Spectral Geometry and Curvature Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Machine Learning , series =

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Second-Order Muon Done Right: A Principled Marriage of Spectral Geometry and Curvature Eldar and Alfred O

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Second-Order Muon Done Right: A Principled Marriage of Spectral Geometry and Curvature Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Machine Learning , year =

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This paper cites SOAP: Improving and Stabilizing Shampoo using Adam.

Second-Order Muon Done Right: A Principled Marriage of Spectral Geometry and Curvature SOAP: Improving and Stabilizing Shampoo using Adam

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Second-Order Muon Done Right: A Principled Marriage of Spectral Geometry and Curvature arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.09697 , year =

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Second-Order Muon Done Right: A Principled Marriage of Spectral Geometry and Curvature Old Optimizer, New Norm: An Anthology

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Second-Order Muon Done Right: A Principled Marriage of Spectral Geometry and Curvature Preconditioned Norms: A Unified Framework for Steepest Descent, Quasi-Newton and Adaptive Methods , journal =

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Second-Order Muon Done Right: A Principled Marriage of Spectral Geometry and Curvature Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems , year =

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Second-Order Muon Done Right: A Principled Marriage of Spectral Geometry and Curvature Training Deep Learning Models with Norm-Constrained LMOs

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This paper cites Gluon: Making Muon & Scion Great Again! (Bridging Theory and Practice of LMO-based Optimizers for LLMs).

Second-Order Muon Done Right: A Principled Marriage of Spectral Geometry and Curvature Gluon: Making Muon & Scion Great Again! (Bridging Theory and Practice of LMO-based Optimizers for LLMs)

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Second-Order Muon Done Right: A Principled Marriage of Spectral Geometry and Curvature arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.25000 , year =

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Second-Order Muon Done Right: A Principled Marriage of Spectral Geometry and Curvature MuonEq: Balancing Before Orthogonalization with Lightweight Equilibration

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Second-Order Muon Done Right: A Principled Marriage of Spectral Geometry and Curvature MUON+: Towards More Effective Muon via One Additional Normalization Step for LLM Pre-training

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Second-Order Muon Done Right: A Principled Marriage of Spectral Geometry and Curvature Muon is Scalable for LLM Training

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Second-Order Muon Done Right: A Principled Marriage of Spectral Geometry and Curvature Scalable Second Order Optimization for Deep Learning

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Second-Order Muon Done Right: A Principled Marriage of Spectral Geometry and Curvature Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition , pages =

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Second-Order Muon Done Right: A Principled Marriage of Spectral Geometry and Curvature Gregory Pauloski and Zhao Zhang and Lei Huang and Weijia Xu and Ian T

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Second-Order Muon Done Right: A Principled Marriage of Spectral Geometry and Curvature Turner and Alireza Makhzani , title =

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Second-Order Muon Done Right: A Principled Marriage of Spectral Geometry and Curvature Turner and Hao-Jun Michael Shi , title =

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Second-Order Muon Done Right: A Principled Marriage of Spectral Geometry and Curvature International Conference on Learning Representations , year =

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Second-Order Muon Done Right: A Principled Marriage of Spectral Geometry and Curvature Gregory Pauloski and Qi Huang and Lei Huang and Shivaram Venkataraman and Kyle Chard and Ian Foster and Zhao Zhang , title =

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Second-Order Muon Done Right: A Principled Marriage of Spectral Geometry and Curvature A Distributed Data-Parallel PyTorch Implementation of the Distributed Shampoo Optimizer for Training Neural Networks At-Scale

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