@article{cosinegatedadamdecaydropinstalenessaware,
  title = {Cosine-Gated Adam-Decay: Drop-In Staleness-Aware Outer Optimization for Decoupled DiLoCo},
  author = {Vatsal Shah and Jiahao Sun},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2605.09126},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.09126},
}