提出改进版优化器MiMuon,显著提升大模型泛化能力
MiMuon: Mixed Muon Optimizer with Improved Generalization for Large Models

- 融合正交化梯度的混合优化策略,结合Muon与动量SGD优势
- 理论证明泛化误差降为O(1/N),优于原Muon的O(1/(Nκ^T))
- 在Qwen3-0.6B等大模型上验证高效性,适合追求泛化的训练场景
矩阵结构参数广泛存在于大模型中。近期提出的高效Muon优化器在大规模模型矩阵参数上表现出显著更快的收敛速度。尽管已有研究关注Muon的优化误差(即收敛性),其泛化误差仍缺乏理论保障。本文基于算法稳定性与数学归纳法,首次证明Muon的泛化误差为O(1/(Nκ^T)),其中N为训练样本数,T为迭代次数,κ>0为梯度估计奇异值间最小差值。为提升泛化性能,我们提出一种混合式优化器MiMuon,通过谨慎引入梯度正交化,融合Muon与动量型SGD的优势。理论证明,MiMuon的泛化误差可降至O(1/N),优于原版的O(1/(Nκ^T)),因κ通常极小。同时,我们证明了MiMuon保持相同的收敛率O(1/T^{1/4})。在Qwen3-0.6B和YOLO26m等大模型上的实验验证了其有效性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Matrix-structured parameters frequently appear in many artificial intelligence models such as large language models. More recently, an efficient Muon optimizer is designed for matrix parameters of large-scale models, and shows markedly faster convergence than the vector-wise algorithms. Although some works have begun to study convergence properties (i.e., optimization error) of the Muon optimizer, its generalization properties (i.e., generalization error) is still not established. Thus, in this paper, we study generalization error of the Muon optimizer based on algorithmic stability and mathematical induction, and prove that the Muon has a generalization error of $O\big(\frac{1}{Nκ^{T}}\big)$, where $N$ is training sample size, and $T$ denotes iteration number, and $κ>0$ denotes minimum difference between singular values of gradient estimate. To enhance generalization of the Muon, we propose an effective mixed Muon (MiMuon) optimizer by cautiously using orthogonalization of gradient, which is a hybrid of Muon and momentum-based SGD optimizers. Then we prove that our MiMuon optimizer has a lower generalization error of $O\big(\frac{1}{N}\big)$ than $O\big(\frac{1}{Nκ^{T}}\big)$ of Muon optimizer, since $κ$ generally is very small. Meanwhile, we also studied the convergence properties of our MiMuon algorithm, and prove that our MiMuon algorithm has the same convergence rate of $O(\frac{1}{T^{1/4}})$ as the Muon algorithm. Some numerical experimental results on training large models including Qwen3-0.6B and YOLO26m demonstrate efficiency of the MiMuon optimizer.
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