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arxiv: 2606.06470 · v1 · pith:7E5FTRAQnew · submitted 2026-06-04 · 💻 cs.LG · cs.AI

PC Layer: Polynomial Weight Preconditioning for Improving LLM Pre-Training

Senmiao Wang , Tiantian Fang , Haoran Zhang , Yushun Zhang , Kunxiang Zhao , Alex Schwing , Ruoyu Sun This is my paper

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keywords polynomial preconditioningLLM pre-trainingweight conditioningsingular value spectrumtransformer trainingpreconditioning layer
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A polynomial preconditioning layer stabilizes singular value spectra of weights in LLM training.

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The paper introduces a PC layer that uses low-degree polynomial preconditioning to reshape the singular-value spectrum of weight matrices, ensuring stable conditioning during training. This parameterization can be merged back into the original weights after training with no added inference cost. Experiments show improved performance over standard transformers when pre-training a Llama-1B model using either AdamW or Muon optimizers. A theoretical result proves that uniformly bounding singular values per layer guarantees geometric convergence of gradient descent to global minima in certain deep linear networks.

Core claim

The central claim is that inserting a polynomial preconditioning layer that uniformly bounds singular values of each weight matrix improves training stability and performance in transformer-based LLMs, with the weights mergeable post-training, and proven for linear networks to ensure convergence.

What carries the argument

The PC layer: a weight parameterization via polynomial preconditioner that reshapes the singular-value spectrum of weight matrices.

If this is right

  • Pre-training of Llama-1B benefits from the PC layer for both AdamW and Muon optimizers.
  • The preconditioned weights can be merged back into the original architecture with no inference overhead.
  • Uniformly bounding each layer's singular values ensures geometric convergence of gradient descent to global minima for certain deep linear networks.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The spectrum control may generalize beyond transformers to other neural network types.
  • The method could reduce training instability in very large models without changing the inference architecture.
  • Further analysis could check if the polynomial degree affects the trade-off between stability and expressivity.

Load-bearing premise

The spectrum-control principle proven only for deep linear networks will produce the observed stability gains when applied inside non-linear transformer blocks with attention and activations.

What would settle it

A direct measurement showing that the polynomial preconditioner does not maintain bounded singular values throughout non-linear transformer training, or no performance gain in Llama pre-training.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.06470 by Alex Schwing, Haoran Zhang, Kunxiang Zhao, Ruoyu Sun, Senmiao Wang, Tiantian Fang, Yushun Zhang.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Illustration of the PC layer: a low-degree matrix polynomial reshapes the singular-value spectrum of a weight [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: (b) plots these four fitted mappings. Other valid polynomial sets can be obtained by re-solving (2). We refer to the index k as the PC level (pc_level). Concretely, pc_level = k means that pk has degree k in gk (σ) = pk (σ 2 )σ, so the induced scalar map gk has overall degree 2k + 1. A larger pc_level corresponds to a smaller cutoff b in the target PLb , and therefore a stronger spectrum-shaping operation:… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: PC performance under AdamW. Validation loss vs. training tokens on (a) Llama-271M and (b) Llama-1B. Under the same total token budget, adding the PC layer reduces the final validation loss by 0.055 on 271M (a 1.63× token-efficiency speedup) and by 0.070 on 1B (a 2× speedup). The gain does not diminish at the larger scale. PC also helps under Muon. We further evaluate PC under Muon, a second widely used opt… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: PC performance under Muon. Validation loss vs. training tokens on (a) Llama-271M and (b) Llama-1B. Adding the PC layer consistently reduces the final validation loss across scales. The reduction is 0.006 on 271M (a 1.07× token-efficiency speedup) and 0.012 on 1B (a 1.13× speedup). accuracy under both optimizers: by 0.0206 points under AdamW (0.4539 → 0.4745) and by 0.0125 points under Muon (0.4880 → 0.5005… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Evolution of modified condition number under AdamW. We report κ˜ for the preconditioned blocks (ffn and WO), the non-preconditioned attention-input blocks (WQ, WK, WV), and their global aggregate. The baseline curves are computed on the original weights, while the PC curves are computed on the effective weights used during the PC trajectory. PC improves the conditioning of the blocks to which it is applied… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Singular-value histograms at the final-step checkpoint (AdamW, Llama-1B). We visualize the singular-value spectra for representative layers (2, 10, and 18 out of 18) and PC_blocks (WO, Wgate, Wup, Wdown). For the baseline, spectra are computed on the original weights W of the baseline-trained model; for PC, spectra are computed on the effective preconditioned matrices PC(W) from the PC-trained model. Withi… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: pc_level ablation. Sweeping pc_level ∈ {1, 2, 3, 4} with {ffn, WO} fixed. (a) AdamW: larger degrees help. (b) Muon: non-monotone, pc_level = 2 optimal. certain attention-side projections can degrade performance relative to the Muon baseline. Since {ffn, WO} is among the best configurations under AdamW and tied for best under Muon, we adopt this simpler and more efficient configuration as the default across… view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: PC block selection ablation. All variants include ffn; the hatched bar (“Final choice”) marks our default {ffn, WO}, which is among the best under both (a) AdamW and (b) Muon. 6.3 Effect of Weight Norm Recovery After Preconditioning Recall from Algorithm 1 that PC first applies the polynomial to a spectrally normalized weight matrix. After this spectrum-shaping step, the PC module can further rescale the r… view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Validation-loss curves for the norm-recovery ablation. The curves correspond to the four variants in Ta￾ble 4. Norm recovery consistently moves PC from worse￾than-baseline performance to clear improvement. 6.4 The Role of Learnable γ in the PC Module We next isolate the role of the learnable scalar γ. Switching γ on or off changes the final validation loss only mildly compared with the change caused by nor… view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Learnable γ stabilizes activation RMS at the 1B scale. The run without γ shows many spikes in attention RMS and FFN RMS, while the run with γ remains stable. 16 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Relative error of the streaming power-iteration estimator s(W) on LLaMA2-271M (AdamW, 22,000 steps). Per-step median and per-step maximum of relerr(W) aggregated over the 16 transformer blocks. Initial transient and steady state. During the first few hundred steps the weights drift rapidly while the warm-started (u, v) buffers have not yet aligned with the dominant singular subspace, so the estimator exhi… view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: Over-flattening scalar map. The Polar Express composite of degree-5 Newton–Schulz polynomials [Amsel et al., 2025] nearly maps every nonzero normalized singular value to one [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p049_12.png] view at source ↗
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: Overly aggressive spectrum flattening hurts under both optimizers. Validation loss on Llama-271M under (a) AdamW and (b) Muon. In both cases the over-flattened polynomial performs worse than the transformer baseline, while the default PC layer (pc_level = 4 for AdamW, pc_level = 2 for Muon) stays below the baseline, supporting soft spectrum shaping over near-perfect flattening. 50 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figure… view at source ↗
Figure 14
Figure 14. Figure 14: Block-wise and aggregate modified condition numbers under Muon. We track κ˜ separately for the PC-targeted blocks (ffn and WO), the attention-input blocks left outside PC (WQ, WK, WV), and the resulting global aggregate. The targeted blocks show the clearest conditioning gain, and the untargeted QKV blocks also exhibit a noticeable improvement relative to the baseline, further contributing to the lower ag… view at source ↗
Figure 15
Figure 15. Figure 15: Singular-value histograms at the final checkpoint (Muon, Llama-1B). Setup as in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p052_15.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

We propose a preconditioning (PC) layer, a weight parameterization via polynomial preconditioner that ensures stable weight conditioning throughout LLM training. The PC module reshapes the singular-value spectrum of weight matrices via low-degree polynomial preconditioning. After training, the preconditioned weights can be merged back into the original architecture, incurring no inference overhead. We demonstrate the advantage of the proposed PC layer over standard transformers in Llama-1B pre-training, for both the AdamW and Muon optimizers. Theoretically, we justify this spectrum-control principle by proving that uniformly bounding each layer's singular values ensures geometric convergence of gradient descent to global minima, for certain deep linear networks. Our code is available at https://github.com/Empath-aln/PC-layer.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper proposes a PC (Polynomial Conditioning) layer that reparameterizes weight matrices in transformers via low-degree polynomial preconditioners to reshape their singular-value spectra and maintain stable conditioning during pre-training. The preconditioned weights merge back into the original architecture post-training with zero inference overhead. Empirical results claim improved training stability and performance for Llama-1B under both AdamW and Muon optimizers relative to standard transformers. A theoretical section proves that uniformly bounding each layer's singular values yields geometric convergence of gradient descent to global minima for certain deep linear networks.

Significance. If the empirical gains on Llama-1B prove robust and the spectrum-control mechanism transfers to nonlinear transformer blocks, the method would offer a practical, inference-free approach to improving optimizer stability in large-model training. The public code release is a clear strength supporting reproducibility. The linear-network convergence result is a clean, self-contained theoretical contribution, though its relevance to the LLM claims depends on an unshown transfer argument.

major comments (2)
  1. [§4] §4 (theoretical analysis): The geometric-convergence guarantee is derived only for deep linear networks under the assumption of uniformly bounded singular values per layer. No lemma, proposition, or argument is supplied showing that the polynomial preconditioner continues to enforce this bound once the weight matrix is composed inside a transformer block containing softmax attention and elementwise nonlinearities (GELU/SiLU).
  2. [Llama-1B experiments] Llama-1B experiments section: The central empirical claim is that the PC layer improves stability via spectrum control, yet no table, figure, or checkpoint analysis reports the actual singular-value distributions (or their condition numbers) of the merged weights at any point during the 1B-scale run. Without this verification, it is impossible to confirm that the preconditioner is operating as intended inside the full nonlinear architecture.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract / Introduction] The abstract and introduction use the phrase 'ensures stable weight conditioning' without a precise definition of the target spectrum (e.g., target condition-number bound or eigenvalue range); a short clarifying sentence would help readers map the method to the linear-network theorem.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the thoughtful and constructive report. We address each major comment below, with revisions planned where the manuscript can be strengthened without misrepresenting its contributions.

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  1. Referee: [§4] §4 (theoretical analysis): The geometric-convergence guarantee is derived only for deep linear networks under the assumption of uniformly bounded singular values per layer. No lemma, proposition, or argument is supplied showing that the polynomial preconditioner continues to enforce this bound once the weight matrix is composed inside a transformer block containing softmax attention and elementwise nonlinearities (GELU/SiLU).

    Authors: We agree that the convergence result is stated only for deep linear networks. The manuscript does not supply a transfer argument or lemma for the nonlinear transformer setting. The linear analysis is presented as a clean justification for the spectrum-control principle in a controlled setting. We will revise §4 to explicitly state the scope of the theorem, remove any implication of direct applicability to transformers, and list extension to nonlinear blocks as future work. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Llama-1B experiments] Llama-1B experiments section: The central empirical claim is that the PC layer improves stability via spectrum control, yet no table, figure, or checkpoint analysis reports the actual singular-value distributions (or their condition numbers) of the merged weights at any point during the 1B-scale run. Without this verification, it is impossible to confirm that the preconditioner is operating as intended inside the full nonlinear architecture.

    Authors: We acknowledge that direct measurement of singular-value spectra (or condition numbers) during the Llama-1B runs is absent. Such verification would strengthen the mechanistic claim. Computing full SVDs on all weight matrices at multiple checkpoints for a 1B-scale model is computationally prohibitive, so we relied on downstream stability and performance metrics as indirect evidence. We will add an explicit limitations paragraph in the experiments section noting this gap and the reliance on indirect indicators. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; derivation self-contained

full rationale

The paper's central claims consist of an empirical demonstration that the PC layer improves Llama-1B training stability under AdamW and Muon, plus a separate theoretical result that bounding singular values yields geometric GD convergence for certain deep linear networks. No equation, lemma, or claim in the abstract reduces a prediction to a fitted input by construction, invokes a self-citation as the sole justification for a uniqueness or ansatz step, or renames a known result as a new derivation. The linear-network proof is stated independently of the transformer experiments, and no load-bearing self-citation chain appears. The derivation chain therefore remains self-contained against external benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

Only the abstract is accessible, so the precise polynomial degree, coefficient initialization, or any fitted scaling constants are unknown; the central addition is the PC-layer parameterization itself.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Uniformly bounding each layer's singular values ensures geometric convergence of gradient descent to global minima for certain deep linear networks
    This is the stated theoretical justification; it is invoked to support the spectrum-control principle used in the LLM experiments.

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