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Gram Newton-Schulz: A Fast, Hardware-Aware Newton-Schulz Algorithm for Muon (tridao.me)
17 points by jxmorris12 2 days ago
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Tri Dao's lab must have saved countless watts with FlashAttention. Great to see them continuing to open-source massive efficiency gains.
A superior alternative to standard Muon and AdamW optimizers for training large models.

Fantastic work, instantly valuable, immediately usable.

A big THANK YOU to the authors:

Jack Zhang, Noah Amsel, Berlin Chen, and Tri Dao

Only read the first section but this sounds really impressive -- up to 50% of up to 17% of training time when using the Muon optimiser, so up to around 7% of basically pure improvement with no downside.