@article{howlearningratedecaywastesyourbestdatain, title = {How Learning Rate Decay Wastes Your Best Data in Curriculum-Based LLM Pretraining}, author = {Kairong Luo and Zhenbo Sun and Haodong Wen and Xinyu Shi and Jiarui Cui and Chenyi Dang and Kaifeng Lyu and Wenguang Chen}, year = {2025}, eprint = {2511.18903}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18903}, }