@article{whenpretraininghurtslorafinetuningadynam, title = {When pre-training hurts LoRA fine-tuning: a dynamical analysis via single-index models}, author = {Gibbs Nwemadji and Bruno Loureiro and Jean Barbier}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2602.02855}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02855}, }