> Kaon matches Muon, suggesting Muon’s gains don’t depend from a geometry. They also show Muon has a stable opt. …

> Kaon matches Muon, suggesting Muon’s gains don’t depend from a geometry. They also show Muon has a stable opt. step size, yielding a more effective learning rate during training. We should put this to test in the new optimizer speedrun.
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