Muon Dynamics as a Spectral Wasserstein Flow

arXiv:2604.04891 · math.OC, cs.AI, stat.ML · Submitted 2026-04-06 · Read on arXiv

math.OC, cs.AI, stat.ML

Submitted: 2026-04-06

Updated: 2026-10-17

Terminology

• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
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