@inproceedings{liu-etal-2026-muon2, title = "{M}uon$^2$: Boosting Muon via Adaptive Second-Moment Preconditioning", author = "Liu, Ziyue and Zhang, Ruijie and Wang, Zhengyang and Zhao, Yequan and Su, Yupeng and Yang, Zi and Zhang, Zheng", editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and Dev, Sunipa and Li, Jessy and Elliott, Desmond", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.1234/", pages = "28141--28161", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }