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Adaptively Incorporating Directional Hints into Zeroth-Order Optimization
arXiv
This is a theoretical and computational methods paper presenting a novel algorithm with mathematical analysis and empirical validation on simulation tasks, but no clinical or real-world application data to support practice change.
Reported
Oracle convergence rate (first-or…O(1/T)
Oracle convergence rate (zeroth-o…O(d/T)
Practical variant approximation t…up to logarithmic factors