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PublishedJune 12, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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Small Experiments, Cheaper Decisions: A Case Study in Staged Promotion for Micro-Pretraining
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arXiv:2606.11387v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Short pretraining runs can reduce experimental cost, but they can also over-promote configurations that only look strong at tiny budgets. We study an auditable staged-promotion protocol for a fixed micro-pretraining runner on two heterogeneous host b
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