Muon succeeds by guaranteeing local step-size optimality rather than by tracking any ideal global geometry, as random-spectrum and quasi-norm variants match its performance on language models.
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Muon is Not That Special: Random or Inverted Spectra Work Just as Well
Muon succeeds by guaranteeing local step-size optimality rather than by tracking any ideal global geometry, as random-spectrum and quasi-norm variants match its performance on language models.