When Muon Meets Task Interference: A Spectral Perspective on Continual Learning and Model Merging

arXiv:2608.27518 · cs.LG · Submitted 2026-08-27 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-08-27

Updated: 2026-08-27

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Continual Learning — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Model Merging — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• AdamW Optimizer — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Catastrophic Forgetting — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

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