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Accurate detection of infected individuals is one of the critical steps in stopping any pandemic. When the underlying infection rate of the disease is low, testing people in groups, instead of testing each individual in the population, can…

Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT) has proven effective for efficient LLM evaluation on multiple-choice benchmarks, but modern LLM evaluation increasingly relies on generation tasks where outputs are scored continuously rather than marked…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Esma Balkır , Alice Pernthaller , Marco Basaldella , José Hernández-Orallo , Nigel Collier

Given $p$ samples, each of which may or may not be defective, group testing (GT) aims to determine their defect status by performing tests on $n < p$ `groups', where a group is formed by mixing a subset of the $p$ samples. Assuming that the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-25 Shuvayan Banerjee , Radhendushka Srivastava , James Saunderson , Ajit Rajwade

We investigate distribution testing with access to non-adaptive conditional samples. In the conditional sampling model, the algorithm is given the following access to a distribution: it submits a query set $S$ to an oracle, which returns a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Gautam Kamath , Christos Tzamos

In applications of group testing in networks, e.g. identifying individuals who are infected by a disease spread over a network, exploiting correlation among network nodes provides fundamental opportunities in reducing the number of tests…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Hesam Nikpey , Jungyeol Kim , Xingran Chen , Saswati Sarkar , Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti

Given $n$ items with at most $d$ of which being positive, instead of testing these items individually, the theory of combinatorial group testing aims to identify all positive items using as few tests as possible. This paper is devoted to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Chong Shangguan , Gennian Ge

We construct exact confidence intervals for the average treatment effect in randomized experiments with binary outcomes using sequences of randomization tests. Our approach does not rely on large-sample approximations and is valid for all…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-25 Peng Zhang

We describe a generalization of the group testing problem termed symmetric group testing. Unlike in classical binary group testing, the roles played by the input symbols zero and one are "symmetric" while the outputs are drawn from a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-08-16 Amin Emad , Jun Shen , Olgica Milenkovic

Motivated by applications in topological DNA-based data storage, we introduce and study a novel setting of Non-Adaptive Group Testing (NAGT) with runlength constraints on the columns of the test matrix, in the sense that any two 1's must be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Abhishek Agarwal , Olgica Milenkovic , Srilakshmi Pattabiraman , João Ribeiro

Conventional test-time adaptation (TTA) approaches typically adapt the model using only a small fraction of test samples, often those with low-entropy predictions, thereby failing to fully leverage the available information in the test…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Nam Nguyen Phuong , Duc Nguyen The Minh , Phi Le Nguyen , Ehsan Abbasnejad , Minh Hoai

Dynamical decoupling (DD) is a promising technique for mitigating errors in near-term quantum devices. However, its effectiveness depends on both hardware characteristics and algorithm implementation details. This paper explores the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Yanjun Ji , Ilia Polian

Chase-like decoding algorithms are a popular choice for soft-input decoding of algebraic codes. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of different test pattern sets using three methods. For test pattern sets with a certain structure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Tim Janz , Simon Obermüller , Andreas Zunker , Stephan ten Brink

We consider the basic problem of learning an unknown partition of $n$ elements into at most $k$ sets using simple queries that reveal information about a small subset of elements. Our starting point is the well-studied pairwise same-set…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Hadley Black , Arya Mazumdar , Barna Saha

In combinatorial group testing problems Questioner needs to find a special element $x \in [n]$ by testing subsets of $[n]$. Tapolcai et al. introduced a new model, where each element knows the answer for those queries that contain it and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-01-29 Dániel Gerbner , Máté Vizer

We consider the problem of identifying defective items in a population with non-adaptive quantitative group testing. For this scenario, Mashauri et al. recently proposed a low-density parity-check (LDPC) code-based quantitative group…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Marvin Xhemrishi , Johan Östman , Alexandre Graell i Amat

We study the problem of identifying a small set $k\sim n^\theta$, $0<\theta<1$, of infected individuals within a large population of size $n$ by testing groups of individuals simultaneously. All tests are conducted concurrently. The goal is…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Amin Coja-Oghlan , Max Hahn-Klimroth , Lukas Hintze , Dominik Kaaser , Lena Krieg , Maurice Rolvien , Olga Scheftelowitsch

The main goal of group testing with inhibitors (GTI) is to efficiently identify a small number of defective items and inhibitor items in a large set of items. A test on a subset of items is positive if the subset satisfies some specific…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Thach V. Bui , Minoru Kuribayashi , Mahdi Cheraghchi , Isao Echizen

We develop a novel iterative algorithm for locally optimal experimental design under constraints, like budget or performance constraints. It is an adaptive discretization algorithm. In every iteration, a discretized version of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Jochen Schmid , Philipp Seufert , Jan Schwientek , Tobias Seidel , Karl-Heinz Küfer

Vast literature on experimental design extends from Fisher and Snedecor to the modern day. When data lies beyond the assumption of univariate normality, nonparametric methods including rank based statistics and permutation tests are…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-30 Adam B Kashlak , Sergii Myroshnychenko , Susanna Spektor

In this note, we present a new adaptive algorithm for generalized group testing, which is asymptotically optimal if $d=o(\log_2|E|)$, $E$ is a set of potentially contaminated sets, $d$ is a maximal size of elements of $E$. Also, we design a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Ilya Vorobyev