On the Optimal Construction of Unbiased Gradient Estimators for Zeroth-Order Optimization

NeurIPSSpotlight2025

Authors: Shaocong Ma, Heng Huang
Venue: NeurIPS 2025
Track: Spotlight

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Zeroth-order optimization (ZOO) is an important framework for stochastic optimization when gradients are unavailable or expensive to compute…

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