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Zeroth-Order Optimization is Secretly Single-Step Policy Optimization

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Main Authors:	Qiu, Junbin, Xie, Zhengpeng, Yan, Xiangda, Yang, Yongjie, Shu, Yao
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Machine Learning
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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