@article{universalityoffirstordermethodsonrandoma, title = {Universality of first-order methods on random and deterministic matrices}, author = {Nicola Gorini and Chris Jones and Dmitriy Kunisky and Lucas Pesenti}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2604.11729}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.11729}, }