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by in-silico 150 days ago
A lot of people point to the Muon optimizer that Moonshot (the creators of Kimi) pioneered. Compared to the standard optimizer AdamW, Muon amplifies low-magnitude gradient directions which makes the model learn faster (and maybe gives Kimi its unique qualities).

Muon paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.16982

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Wow! Thank you