@article{turningstalegradientsintostablegradients,
  title = {Turning Stale Gradients into Stable Gradients: Coherent Coordinate Descent with Implicit Landscape Smoothing for Lightweight Zeroth-Order Optimization},
  author = {Chen Liang and Xiatao Sun and Qian Wang and Daniel Rakita},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2605.14373},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.14373},
}