@article{wsmdecayfreelearningratescheduleviacheck,
  title = {WSM: Decay-Free Learning Rate Schedule via Checkpoint Merging for LLM Pre-training},
  author = {Changxin Tian and Jiapeng Wang and Qian Zhao and Kunlong Chen and Jia Liu and Ziqi Liu and Jiaxin Mao and Wayne Xin Zhao and Zhiqiang Zhang and Jun Zhou},
  year = {2025},
  eprint = {2507.17634},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17634},
}