Tilde Research Introduces Aurora: A Leverage-Aware Optimizer That Fixes a Hidden Neuron Death Problem in Muon

2026-05-11 23:07 GMT · 2 months ago aimagpro.com

Researchers at Tilde Research have released Aurora, a new optimizer for training neural networks that addresses a structural flaw in the widely-used Muon optimizer. The flaw quietly kills off a significant fraction of MLP neurons during training and keeps them permanently dead. Aurora comes with a 1.1B parameter pretraining experiment, a new state-of-the-art result on […]
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