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Add Polar Express Muon #26

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According to the following paper, using Polar Express instead of Newton-Schultz in Muon leads to improvements in the validation loss.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.16932

It was also used in Karpathy's NanoChat repo to train a GPT-2 equivalent model for less than $100 (karpathy/nanochat#481)

It might be worthwhile to add it here.

Official implementation: https://github.com/NoahAmsel/PolarExpress/blob/main/polar_express.py

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