@article{stabilityannealingselectstheimplicitbias, title = {Stability Annealing Selects the Implicit Bias of Smoothed Sign Descent: A Rate-Indexed Barrier Path on Separable Data}, author = {Xiangwu Wang and Chengwei Cao and Yicheng Song and Ran Bi and Peilin Yu}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2607.06013}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.06013}, }