@inproceedings{li-etal-2026-variance,
    title = "Variance-Adaptive Muon: Pre-Orthogonalization Variance Modulation for Efficient Language Model Pretraining",
    author = "li, Jingru  and
      Fan, Yibo  and
      Li, Huan",
    editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi  and
      Dev, Sunipa  and
      Li, Jessy  and
      Elliott, Desmond",
    booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {EMNLP} 2026",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1780/",
    pages = "38060--38081",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0"
}