2 papers
cs.LG2026
SOAP, Muon, and Beyond: Pushing LLM Pretraining Scales
Mikail Khona, Aditya Vavre, Boxiang Wang +11
Higher-order optimizers such as Muon and SOAP offer faster convergence than AdamW, but their computational cost and numerical stability challenges have limited adoption at scale. I…
cs.DC2026
Scalable Training of Mixture-of-Experts Models with Megatron Core
Zijie Yan, Hongxiao Bai, Xin Yao +42
Scaling Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) training introduces systems challenges absent in dense models. Because each token activates only a subset of experts, this sparsity allows total pa…