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Mohammad Hossein Ebtehaj
dblp:441/7391
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
—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 2 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Computational complexity › randomized computation
pseudodeterministic algorithms |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Faux Determinism · CCC 2026 |
Computational complexity
search problems |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | Faux Determinism · CCC 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
computational indistinguishability · 1.0black-box derandomization · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Faux DeterminismabstractIn the context of search problems, a pseudodeterministic algorithm is one which uses randomness but appears to be deterministic in its external behavior: it outputs the same answer when it is run on any one input multiple times. We introduce the relaxed notion of computationally-secure pseudodeterminism, which we call faux determinism. A faux-deterministic algorithm must appear to be deterministic to any external adversary with bounded resources. In other words, an algorithm is faux-deterministic if the task of "finding an input on which it fails to deterministically solve the search problem" is computationally intractable. In the black-box setting, we show that every verifiable search problem which has a randomized algorithm also has a faux-deterministic algorithm; this is not true of pseudodeterministic algorithms, which do not always exist. We highlight two reasons why this faux derandomization result is interesting: first, due to the computational indistinguishability, faux-deterministic algorithms may be used in place of pseudodeterministic ones in cryptographic settings. Second, from a conceptual point of view, our result helps explain why pseudodeterministic lower bounds are often hard to prove: such lower bounds must be inherently nonconstructive, since within FZPP∩FNP, there is no efficient black-box algorithm for finding a hard input for a given faux-deterministic algorithm. Shalev Ben-David, Mohammad Hossein Ebtehaj |
CCC | 2 |