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What does LoRA specialized Muon optimizer even mean?

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A solo replication on Qwen3-1.7B with OpenThoughts data tested LoRA-specific optimizers against AdamW and Muon at ranks 16 to 256, using one seed. Anpaure's reverse-engineered Dimuon variant led at every rank, with the margin growing with rank.

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