@article{weightnormcriticalityamechanismforlosssp,
  title = {Weight-norm Criticality: A Mechanism for Loss Spikes Induced by the Normalization and Weight Decay},
  author = {Xiaolong Li and Zhangchen Zhou and Zhi-Qin John Xu},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2607.21005},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.21005},
}