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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
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8+Muon, orthogonalized momentum, for the hidden matrices and AdamW for the rest.
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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)
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15+## Next
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17+Tune the momentum warm-up, then the architecture.