Lower Bounds for Smooth Nonconvex Zeroth-Order Optimization: The Price of Determinism under Low Curvature Trace

arXiv:2610.27550 · cs.LG · Submitted 2026-10-20 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-10-20

Updated: 2026-10-20

Terminology

• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Zeroth-Order Optimization — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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