@inproceedings{omolaoye-de-melo-2026-gradient, title = "Gradient Starvation in Low-Rank Language Model Pretraining", author = "Omolaoye, Victor Adelakun and de Melo, Gerard", editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and Dev, Sunipa and Li, Jessy and Elliott, Desmond", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.360/", pages = "8249--8266", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }