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Pretraining + fine-tuning powers modern ML, but we lack a theoretical understanding of how pretraining actually shapes downstream learning. In our new @icmlconf.bsky.social paper, we address this gap! 📅 July 9th, Poster #4502 Session 8! 🧵 arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20062
Is Muon as good as they say? We looked beyond training speed and found a hidden cost: Muon loses the simplicity bias of older optimizers like gradient descent — and this matters for generalization. Led by Sara Dragutinović and advised by Rajesh Ranganath arxiv.org/abs/2603.00742
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