MUON-RT Reusing the Teacher's Trajectory for Momentum-Free Muon for LLM Self-Distillation

arXiv:2610.41104 · cs.LG, cs.AI, cs.CL, stat.ML · Submitted 2026-10-30 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.AI, cs.CL, stat.ML

Submitted: 2026-10-30

Updated: 2026-10-30

Terminology

• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Self-Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes

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