@inproceedings{NEURIPS2019_125b93c9, author = {Vlatakis-Gkaragkounis, Emmanouil-Vasileios and Flokas, Lampros and Piliouras, Georgios}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems}, editor = {H. Wallach and H. Larochelle and A. Beygelzimer and F. d\textquotesingle Alch\'{e}-Buc and E. Fox and R. Garnett}, pages = {}, publisher = {Curran Associates, Inc.}, title = {Efficiently avoiding saddle points with zero order methods: No gradients required}, url = {https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2019/file/125b93c9b50703fe9dac43ec231f5f83-Paper.pdf}, volume = {32}, year = {2019} }