State space models (SSMs) have emerged as efficient linear-time alternatives to attention for long-sequence modeling. However, existing SSMs often suffer from instability and memory degradation over extended horizons due to poorly conditioned first-order updates and unbalanced update geometry. We introduce MuonSSM, a general framework that stabilizes SSM training by explicitly conditioning the geometry of memory updates rather than the recurrent transition matrix. MuonSSM augments SSMs with a momentum-based pathway and a lightweight Newton Schulz transformation on low-rank input injections, yielding bounded and spectrally conditioned updates while preserving parallel scan complexity. Theory shows that MuonSSM improves gradient propagation, mitigates spectral amplification, and enriches memory representations over long horizons. Extensive experiments across language, vision, and time-series benchmarks show consistent gains in accuracy, robustness, and long-context performance when integrated into diverse SSM backbones. These results establish geometric conditioning of updates as a principled pathway to stable, scalable sequence modeling.
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