Meta paper reveals Muon optimizer scaling properties for large DiTs

iScienceLuvr · x · 2026-08-24

A new paper by Meta and USC examines Muon's scaling behavior on DiTs from 1.3B to 15B parameters. While Muon retains optimization and quality advantages over AdamW at scale, the computational overhead of full Newton-Schulz iterations is substantial. They propose Periodic Row-wise Muon, performing full spectral updates periodically and low-cost row-wise constrained updates in between to mitigate overhead.

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