@article{gradientsmoothingcouplinglayerwiseupdate,
  title = {Gradient Smoothing: Coupling Layer-wise Updates for Improved Optimization},
  author = {Haoming Meng and Anton Sugolov and Vardan Papyan},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2606.30813},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.30813},
}