RMNP: Row-Momentum Normalized Preconditioning ICML 2026 · Why Muon's orthogonalization helps neural networks — and how it provably collapses to a single row-wise normalization. OmniOpt: Taxonomy, Geometry, and Benchmarking of Modern Optimizers arXiv 2026 · A unified meta-pipeline, LMO-driven four-axis geometry, and cross-domain benchmark for choosing modern optimizers. Depth, Not Data ISIT 2026 (Strong Accept) · An analysis of Hessian spectral bifurcation: network depth, not data, drives the spectral transition. Suspicious Alignment of SGD ALT 2026 (Best Student Paper Award) · A fine-grained step size condition analysis of SGD's alignment behavior.
