@inproceedings{dershowitz-bouneffouf-2026-controlled, title = "Controlled Fine-Tuning for Two-Tower Recommenders: Why Gradual Unfreezing Can Fail and Cosine Regularization Suffices", author = "Dershowitz, Gabriel and Bouneffouf, Djallel", editor = "Sedoc, Jo{\~a}o and Shu, Raphael and Drozd, Aleksandr and Akula, Arjun and Rogers, Anna and Giorgi, Salvatore and Benton, Adrian", booktitle = "Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in {NLP}", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.insights-1.5/", pages = "43--47", ISBN = "979-8-89176-480-4" }