nanoGPT speedrun
Train GPT-2 small to a fixed validation loss in as little time as possible (placeholder)
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| 2 | issue: 1 |
| 3 | status: done |
| 4 | tags: training |
| 5 | --- |
| 6 | # muon |
| 7 | |
| 8 | Muon, orthogonalized momentum, for the hidden matrices and AdamW for the rest. |
| 9 | |
| 10 | ## What happened |
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| 12 | - 2026-08-30: 24.9 minutes to 3.28 (−20.1 on the baseline) |
| 13 | - 2026-09-04: 22.3 minutes to 3.28 (−22.7 on the baseline) |
| 14 | |
| 15 | ## Next |
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| 17 | Tune the momentum warm-up, then the architecture. |