Recent Preprints

The Structure of In-Place Space-Bounded Computation. [ECCC-TR25-150]

with James Cook, Surendra Ghentiyala, Ian Mertz, and Nathan Sheffield.

Composing Low Space Algorithms. [ECCC-TR25-140] [Oded's Choices]

with Roei Tell.

Efficient Catalytic Graph Algorithms. [arXiv:2509.06209]

with James Cook.

To Appear

Collapsing Catalytic Classes. [ECCC-TR25-019]

with Michal Koucký, Ian Mertz, and Sasha Sami.

FOCS 2025.

Publications

A Fast Coloring Oracle for Average Case Hypergraphs. [arXiv:2507.10691]

with Cassandra Marcussen, Ronitt Rubinfeld, Asaf Shapira and Shlomo Tauber. 

RANDOM 2025.

The Structure of Catalytic Space: Capturing Randomness and Time Via Compression. [ECCC-TR24-106]

with James Cook, Jiatu Li, and Ian Mertz.

STOC 2025.

When Connectivity is Hard, Random Walks are Easy With Non-Determinism. [ECCC-TR25-077]

with Dean Doron, Roei Tell, and Ryan Williams.

STOC 2025.

Catalytic Communication. [ECCC-TR24-188]

with Nathan Sheffield and William Wang.

ITCS 2025.

Distinguishing, Predicting, and Certifying: On the Long Reach of Partial Notions of Pseudorandomness. [ECCC-TR24-139]

with Jiatu Li and Roei Tell.

FOCS 2024.

Derandomizing Logspace With a Small Shared Hard Drive. [ECCC-TR23-168]

CCC 2024. Invited to special issue of Computational Complexity.

Best Student Paper.

Opening Up the Distinguisher: A Hardness to Randomness Approach for BPL = L that Uses Properties of BPL. [ECCC-TR23-208] [Brown Seminar]

STOC 2024.

with Dean Doron and Roei Tell.

Pseudorandom Linear Codes are List-Decodable to Capacity. [arXiv:2303.17554]

ITCS 2024.

with Aaron (Louie) Putterman.

Certified Hardness vs. Randomness for Logspace. [ECCC-TR23-040]

FOCS 2023.

with Ran Raz and Wei Zhan.

Singular Value Approximation and Sparsifying Random Walks on Directed Graphs. [arXiv:2301.13541]

FOCS 2023.

with AmirMahdi Ahmadinejad, John Peebles, Aaron Sidford, and Salil Vadhan.

Improved Local Computation Algorithms for Constructing Spanners. [arXiv:2105.04847v2]

RANDOM 2023.

with Rubi Arviv, Lily Chung, and Reut Levi.

On the Power of Regular and Permutation Branching Programs. [ECCC-TR23-102] [Oded's Choices]

RANDOM 2023.

with Chin Ho Lee and Salil Vadhan.

Near-Optimal Derandomization of Medium-Width Branching Programs. [ECCC-TR22-150]

STOC 2023.

with Aaron (Louie) Putterman.

See also concurrent work (STOC 2023) by Cohen, Doron, Sberlo, and Ta-Shma.

Fourier Growth of Regular Branching Programs. [ECCC-TR22-034]

RANDOM 2022.

with Chin Ho Lee and Salil Vadhan.

Hitting Sets for Regular Branching Programs. [ECCC-TR21-143]

CCC 2022.

with Andrej Bogdanov, William Hoza, and Gautam Prakriya.

Deterministic Approximation of Random Walks via Queries in Graphs of Unbounded Size. [arXiv:2111.01997]

SOSA 2022.

with Salil Vadhan.

Limitations of the Impagliazzo–Nisan–Wigderson Pseudorandom Generator against Permutation Branching Programs. [ECCC-TR21-108]

Algorithmica.

with Willian Hoza and Salil Vadhan.

Local Access to Random Walks. [arXiv:2102.07740] [ITCS Talk] [Property Testing Review]

ITCS 2022.

with Amartya Shankha Biswas and Ronitt Rubinfeld.

Pseudodistributions That Beat All Pseudorandom Generators.  [ECCC-TR21-019] [CCC Talk] [Oded's Choices]

CCC 2021. Invited to special issue of Theory of Computing.

with Salil Vadhan.

Pseudorandom Generators for Unbounded-Width Permutation Branching Programs. [ECCC-TR20-138] [ITCS Talk] [Oded's Choices]

ITCS 2021.

with William Hoza and Salil Vadhan.

Old(er) Preprints

A Study of Error Reduction Polynomials. [ECCC-TR24-090]

with Gil Cohen, Dean Doron, Tomer Manket, Yichuan Wang, and Tal Yankovitz.