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Sasha Sami
dblp:401/1583
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
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Theory of computation · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Theoretical computer science
1 paper |
Computational complexity · 100% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Computational complexity › space complexity
catalytic computation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Collapsing Catalytic Classes · FOCS 2025 |
Computational complexity
nondeterminism |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Collapsing Catalytic Classes · FOCS 2025 |
Computational complexity
randomized computation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Collapsing Catalytic Classes · FOCS 2025 |
Computational complexity
space complexity |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Collapsing Catalytic Classes · FOCS 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
derandomization · 0.9compress-or-compute framework · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Collapsing Catalytic ClassesabstractA catalytic machine is a space-bounded Turing machine with additional access to a second, much larger work tape, with the caveat that this tape is full, and its contents must be preserved by the computation. Catalytic machines were defined by Buhrman et al. (STOC 2014), who, alongside many follow-up works, exhibited the power of catalytic space (CSPACE) and, in particular, catalytic logspace machines (CL) beyond that of traditional space-bounded machines. Several variants of CL have been proposed, including nondeterministic and co-non-deterministic catalytic computation by Buhrman et al. (STACS 2016) and randomized catalytic computation by Datta et al. (CSR 2020). These and other works proposed several questions, such as catalytic analogues of the theorems of Savitch and Immerman and Szelepcsényi. Catalytic computation was recently derandomized by Cook et al. (STOC 2025), but only in certain parameter regimes. We settle almost all questions regarding randomized and nondeterministic catalytic computation by giving an optimal reduction from catalytic space with additional resources to the corresponding non-catalytic space classes. With regards to non-determinism, our main result is that CL = CNL and with regards to randomness we show CL = CPrL where CPrL denotes randomized catalytic logspace where the accepting probability can be arbitrarily close to 1/2. We also have a number of near-optimal partial results for non-deterministic and randomized catalytic computation with less catalytic space. We show catalytic versions of Savitch’s theorem, Immerman-Szelepscényi, and the derandomization results of Nisan and Saks and Zhou, all of which are unconditional and hold for all parameter settings. Our results build on the compress-or-compute framework of Cook et al. (STOC 2025). Despite proving broader and stronger results, our framework is simpler and more modular. Michal Koucký 0001, Ian Mertz, Edward Pyne, Sasha Sami |
FOCS | 4 |