Multiple-gradient descent is typically formulated in Euclidean geometry, whereas matrix-aware optimizers use directions induced by other norms. We analyze a single-loop multi-objective method combining a norm-constrained linear minimization oracle with entropic updates of task weights. For any finite-dimensional norm pair, we establish an O(T−1/2) ergodic stationarity rate in the deterministic setting, deriving the required trajectory gradient bound from smoothness and lower-boundedness in the unregularized case. With stochastic gradients and a bounded-gradient assumption, one persistent blended-gradient momentum buffer yields an O(T−1/4) rate whose leading term has no explicit dependence on the number of tasks. We also establish static regret for the inner weighting objective on arbitrary bounded gradient sequences and, with entropy regularization and a weight floor, iteration-wise inner-gap control after burn-in while retaining ergodic stationarity, conditional on a trajectory gradient bound. The optimal blended gradient can be nonunique in spectral and sign geometries, motivating a selection-independent inner gap. Our analysis extends the spectral construction studied by concurrent MOON to general norms. Experiments compare the method with existing multi-task optimizers and examine its oracle, weighting, and momentum choices.
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Primal ∥⋅∥
Dual ∥⋅∥∗
\lmo(g)
Known as
ℓ2
ℓ2
−Rg/∥g∥2
normalized SGD
ℓ∞
ℓ1
−R\sign(g)
Signum ( Bernstein et al., 2018 )
spectral
nuclear
−RUV⊤ , G=UΣV⊤
Muon ( Jordan et al., 2024 )
Table 1: Norm-constrained oracles; Pethick et al. (2025) apply them layer-wise with per-layer radii ρℓ .
Method
mIoU ↑
Pix Acc ↑
Abs Err ↓
Rel Err ↓
Δm%↓
STL
74.11
93.44
0.0137
38.22
0.00
LS
74.80
93.37
0.0188
42.41
11.83
SI
67.77
89.97
0.0151
34.65
3.29
RLW
74.24
93.30
0.0169
47.09
11.63
DWA
74.42
93.41
0.0159
41.94
6.35
UW
71.56
92.15
0.0191
38.75
11.41
Table 2: Results on CityScapes dataset. The best and second-best values are highlighted in bold and underlined , respectively. The task-specific metrics and the performance drop Δm% are reported.
Segmentation
Depth
Surface normal
Method
mIoU ↑
Pix Acc ↑
Abs ↓
Rel ↓
Mean ↓
Med. ↓
<11.25↑
<22.5↑
<30↑
Δm%↓
STL
38.77
63.98
0.6350
0.2654
25.10
19.06
30.12
57.66
69.53
0.00
LS
38.13
64.83
0.5523
0.2334
27.79
23.56
23.03
48.23
61.64
6.76
SI
38.59
64.57
0.5439
0.2339
27.57
23.43
22.81
48.45
62.18
6.32
RLW
38.45
64.61
0.5814
0.2454
27.83
23.46
23.20
48.51
61.81
7.53
DWA
39.57
65.19
0.5691
0.2399
27.40
22.87
24.26
49.61
62.81
5.37
Table 3: Results on NYU-v2 dataset. The best and second-best values are highlighted in bold and underlined , respectively. The task-specific metrics and the performance drop Δm% are reported.
Method
Left ↑
Right ↑
Avg. ↑
MGDA
83.63
85.13
84.38
MGDA + Muon
84.48
86.43
85.45
FAMO
85.24
87.29
86.27
FAMO + Muon
87.28
88.02
87.65
Muon (LS)
87.45
88.04
87.75
MOON
86.87
88.06
87.47
Table 4: MultiMNIST with a ViT backbone. Left: test accuracy (%), mean over three seeds on the same regenerated data. Best and second-best values are shown in bold and underlined. Right: fixed-hyperparameter substitutions with the final encoder-only inner gap, in each oracle’s dual norm (not comparable across oracle rows). Details in Appendix I.2 .
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Supplementary material from the paper’s appendix.
Appendix
η
10−5
5×10−5
10−4
5×10−4
10−3
Average accuracy (%)
90.20
90.54
90.08
89.69
89.53
Final inner gap
1.97
0.90
0.84
0.29
1.04
Appendix
Table 5: MultiMNIST: sensitivity of our method to the weight step η (spectral oracle, entropic weights, blended momentum), test accuracy averaged over three seeds. The main configuration, η=5×10−5 , was selected on the validation split.
κ
0
0.48
0.49
0.495
0.4975
Avg. ↑
90.54
90.54
90.73
91.11
90.96
Gap ↓
0.90
0.90
1.17
1.22
1.65
Appendix
Table 6: Ablation of the clipping parameter κ on MultiMNIST: test accuracy and final inner gap, averaged over three seeds.
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