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math.OC2026
Closing the Oracle-Complexity Gap in Derivative-Free Convex Optimization: A Near-Quadratic Lower Bound from Exact Function Values
Phillip Kerger
The paper proves a near‑quadratic lower bound on the number of exact function‑value queries needed to minimize a convex Lipschitz function over a Euclidean ball, closing a long‑sta…
math.OC2026
Tight Lower Bounds for Binary First-Order Oracles for Convex Optimization
Amitabh Basu, Phillip Kerger, Marco Molinaro
The paper proves that solving mixed-integer convex optimization with bit‑wise first‑order oracles requires a number of bits that grows quadratically with the number of continuous v…