AI RESEARCH

How Learning Rate Decay Wastes Your Best Data in Curriculum-Based LLM Pretraining

arXiv CS.AI

ArXi:2511.18903v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Due to the scarcity of high-quality data, large language models (LLMs) are often trained on mixtures of data with varying quality levels, even after sophisticated data curation. A natural approach to better leverage high-quality data is curriculum-based pre