Newtonian-Shampoo: Modified Newton-Schulz Adapted for Shampoo Preconditioners

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Shampoo optimizer was proposed in [1]

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TODO:

  • [] Shampoo won ML-Perf competition
  • [] the best optimizer in the paper Beyond Outliers
  • [] slow because of EVD and/or Coupled-Newton
  • [] explain how we adapt Newton-Schulz for -1/p power
  • [] provide implementation
  • [] show results