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ARXIV:2603.28743 · LLM TRAINING · SUBMITTED 31 MAR · 20:30 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2603.28743LLM TRAININGSUBMITTED 31 MAR · 20:30 UTCFRESHNESS STALELiliang Ren · Yang Liu · Yelong Shen · Weizhu Chen · arXiv
A new hypersphere parameterization framework that enables stable and efficient scaling of large language models with transferable learning rates.
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Pain A new hypersphere parameterization framework that enables stable and efficient scaling of large language models with transferable learning rates.
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A new hypersphere parameterization framework that enables stable and efficient scaling of large language models with transferable learning rates. Existing hyperparameter transfer laws are mainly developed for first-order optimizers, and they do not structurally…
Scaling laws for large language models depend critically on the optimizer and parameterization. Existing hyperparameter transfer laws are mainly developed for first-order optimizers, and they do not structurally prevent training instability at scale.
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. We prove that weight decay is a first-order no-op on the Frobenius sphere, show that Depth-$μ$P remains necessary, and find that the optimal learning…
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A new hypersphere parameterization framework that enables stable and efficient scaling of large language models with transferable learning rates.
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10.48550/arXiv.2603.28743A new hypersphere parameterization framework that enables stable and efficient scaling of large language models with transferable learning rates.
Abstract
Scaling laws for large language models depend critically on the optimizer and parameterization. Existing hyperparameter transfer laws are mainly developed for first-order optimizers, and they do not structurally prevent training instability at scale. Recent hypersphere optimization methods constrain weight matrices to a fixed-norm hypersphere, offering a promising alternative for more stable scaling. We introduce HyperP (Hypersphere Parameterization), the first framework for transferring optimal learning rates across model width, depth, training tokens, and Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) granularity under the Frobenius-sphere constraint with the Muon optimizer. We prove that weight decay is a first-order no-op on the Frobenius sphere, show that Depth-$μ$P remains necessary, and find that the optimal learning rate follows the same data-scaling power law with the "magic exponent" 0.32 previously observed for AdamW. A single base learning rate tuned at the smallest scale transfers across all compute budgets under HyperP, yielding $1.58\times$ compute efficiency over a strong Muon baseline at $6\times10^{21}$ FLOPs. Moreover, HyperP delivers transferable stability: all monitored instability indicators, including $Z$-values, output RMS, and activation outliers, remain bounded and non-increasing under training FLOPs scaling. We also propose SqrtGate, an MoE gating mechanism derived from the hypersphere constraint that preserves output RMS across MoE granularities for improved granularity scaling, and show that hypersphere optimization enables substantially larger auxiliary load-balancing weights, yielding both strong performance and good expert balance. We release our training codebase at https://github.com/microsoft/ArchScale.
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A new hypersphere parameterization framework that enables stable and efficient scaling of large language models with transferable learning rates. Existing hyperparameter transfer laws are mainly developed for first-order optimizers, and they do not structurally prevent training...
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Scaling laws for large language models depend critically on the optimizer and parameterization. Existing hyperparameter transfer laws are mainly developed for first-order optimizers, and they do not structurally prevent training instability at scale.
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. We prove that weight decay is a first-order no-op on the Frobenius sphere, show that Depth-$μ$P remains necessary, and find that the optimal learning rate follows the same data-scaling power law with the...
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LLM Training moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Implementation evidence is present through a linked repository.
A single base learning rate tuned at the smallest scale transfers across all compute budgets under HyperP, yielding $1.58\times$ compute efficiency over a strong Muon baseline at $6\times10^{21}$ FLOPs.
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HyperP delivers transferable stability: all monitored instability indicators, including $Z$-values, output RMS, and activation outliers, remain bounded and non-increasing under training FLOPs scaling.
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We prove that weight decay is a first-order no-op on the Frobenius sphere
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find that the optimal learning rate follows the same data-scaling power law with the "magic exponent" 0.32 previously observed for AdamW.
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We also propose SqrtGate, an MoE gating mechanism derived from the hypersphere constraint that preserves output RMS across MoE granularities for improved granularity scaling
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show that hypersphere optimization enables substantially larger auxiliary load-balancing weights, yielding both strong performance and good expert balance.
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Existing hyperparameter transfer laws are mainly developed for first-order optimizers, and they do not structurally prevent training instability at scale.
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show that Depth-$\mu$P remains necessary
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