Improvement of the randomized lower-bound constant

Improve the constant 128 in the randomized lower bound relating expected mistakes and expected ERM-oracle calls for thresholds on an unknown order under the minimal-prefix rule.

Background

Theorem C proves that expected mistakes are at least ((T+1-epsilon)128{-E[Q]}-1)/2 under an explicit hard distribution. The paper states that the constant is not optimized and explicitly identifies improving it as an open problem.

References

Constants. Improve the constant 128 in Theorem~\ref{thm:C}.

An Exponential Deterministic--Randomized Gap in ERM-Oracle Complexity for Thresholds on an Unknown Order  (2609.10196 - Li, 9 Sep 2026) in Section 5, Discussion and open problems; Theorem C