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- tauon_optimizer-0.1.0/LICENSE +21 -0
- tauon_optimizer-0.1.0/PKG-INFO +243 -0
- tauon_optimizer-0.1.0/README.md +234 -0
- tauon_optimizer-0.1.0/pyproject.toml +10 -0
- tauon_optimizer-0.1.0/setup.cfg +4 -0
- tauon_optimizer-0.1.0/tauon/__init__.py +4 -0
- tauon_optimizer-0.1.0/tauon/optimizer.py +103 -0
- tauon_optimizer-0.1.0/tauon_optimizer.egg-info/PKG-INFO +243 -0
- tauon_optimizer-0.1.0/tauon_optimizer.egg-info/SOURCES.txt +11 -0
- tauon_optimizer-0.1.0/tauon_optimizer.egg-info/dependency_links.txt +1 -0
- tauon_optimizer-0.1.0/tauon_optimizer.egg-info/requires.txt +1 -0
- tauon_optimizer-0.1.0/tauon_optimizer.egg-info/top_level.txt +1 -0
- tauon_optimizer-0.1.0/tests/test_optimizer.py +67 -0
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Name: tauon-optimizer
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Version: 0.1.0
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Summary: Fast Muon-like optimizer with AdamW speed
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# Tauon Optimizer
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**Tauon** is a high-performance, low-latency spectral gradient optimizer designed to deliver the **convergence accuracy of Muon at the operational speed and throughput of AdamW**.
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By unifying **Spectral Domain Analysis via Quasi-QR Control (QRC)**, **Type-II Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT-II) subspace projections**, and a **non-stationary (step-dependent) polynomial schedule**, Tauon compresses standard matrix polar decomposition (Newton-Schulz iterations) into **strictly two matrix-multiplication steps** without degradation in singular-value equalization or downstream task accuracy.
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## π Benchmarks
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We evaluated **Tauon** against **Muon** and **AdamW** by training a custom Transformer model (**GPT-Mini**: $d_{model}=512$, 6 layers, 8 heads) on the `TinyShakespeare` dataset for 3,000 steps.
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* **Dataset:** TinyShakespeare (Sequence length = 128, Batch size = 64)
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* **Model:** GPT-Mini (~12M parameters)
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* **Learning Rate Schedule:** Cosine decay with 100 warmup steps
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2. **Wall-Clock Efficiency:** Despite matrix orthogonalization/projection overhead, Tauon maintains an efficient per-step runtime, leading to faster overall training time to reach target validation loss.
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## Theoretical Architecture & Mechanics
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Newton-Schulz (NS) iterations approximate matrix polar decomposition ($G \to U V^T$) to equalize singular values across layer weights. Standard implementations (e.g., Muon) rely on repeated applications of a single static polynomial over full-rank matrices:
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Tauon systematically eliminates the computational bottlenecks of standard NS iterations through a multi-stage acceleration pipeline in both the spatial and spectral domains.
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class tauon_step:
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