Keller Jordan releases the Muon optimizer

Muon optimizer released

Why it matters

Set new training-speed records over AdamW using Newton-Schulz orthogonalization

Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”

Officialkellerjordan.github.iohttps://kellerjordan.github.io/posts/muon/

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