Efficient Convex Optimization with Membership Oracles
Yin Tat Lee, Aaron Sidford, Santosh Vempala · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2017
We consider the problem of minimizing a convex function over a convex set given access only to an evaluation oracle for the function and a membership oracle for the set. We give a simple algorithm which solves this problem with $\tilde{O}(n^2)$ oracle calls and $\tilde{O}(n^3)$ additional arithmetic operations. Using this result, we obtain more efficient reductions among the five basic oracles for convex sets and functions defined by Grötschel, Lovasz and Schrijver.