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In group testing, the task is to identify defective items by testing groups of them together using as few tests as possible. We consider the setting where each item is defective with a constant probability $\alpha$, independent of all other…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Lukas Hintze , Lena Krieg , Olga Scheftelowitsch , Haodong Zhu

In the classical combinatorial (adaptive) group testing problem, one is given two integers \(d\) and \(n\), where \(0\le d\le n\), and a population of \(n\) items, exactly \(d\) of which are known to be defective. The question is to devise…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-07-24 David Cariolaro , Zhaiming Shen , Yi Zhang

We consider the problem of non-adaptive noiseless group testing of $N$ items of which $K$ are defective. We describe four detection algorithms: the COMP algorithm of Chan et al.; two new algorithms, DD and SCOMP, which require stronger…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-20 Matthew Aldridge , Leonardo Baldassini , Oliver Johnson

Group testing is an approach aimed at identifying up to $d$ defective items among a total of $n$ elements. This is accomplished by examining subsets to determine if at least one defective item is present. In our study, we focus on the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Nader H. Bshouty , Catherine A. Haddad-Zaknoon

In the context of fault-detection problems, the objective is to identify all defective items among a set of $n$ binary-state items using the minimum number of tests. The {group testing} paradigm, which allows testing a subset of items in a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Jun Wu , Yongxi Cheng , Zhen Yang , Feng Chu , Junkai He

The group testing problem consists of determining a small set of defective items from a larger set of items based on a number of possibly-noisy tests, and is relevant in applications such as medical testing, communication protocols, pattern…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Jonathan Scarlett , Oliver Johnson

We consider some computationally efficient and provably correct algorithms with near-optimal sample-complexity for the problem of noisy non-adaptive group testing. Group testing involves grouping arbitrary subsets of items into pools. Each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Chun Lam Chan , Sidharth Jaggi , Venkatesh Saligrama , Samar Agnihotri

The goal of group testing is to efficiently identify a few specific items, called positives, in a large population of items via tests. A test is an action on a subset of items which returns positive if the subset contains at least one…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Thach V. Bui , Mahdi Cheraghchi , An T. H. Nguyen , Thuc D. Nguyen

We formulate and analyze a stochastic threshold group testing problem motivated by biological applications. Here a set of $n$ items contains a subset of $d \ll n$ defective items. Subsets (pools) of the $n$ items are tested -- the test…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-25 Chun Lam Chan , Sheng Cai , Mayank Bakshi , Sidharth Jaggi , Venkatesh Saligrama

The group testing problem concerns discovering a small number of defective items within a large population by performing tests on pools of items. A test is positive if the pool contains at least one defective, and negative if it contains no…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Matthew Aldridge , Oliver Johnson , Jonathan Scarlett

Recent advances in noiseless non-adaptive group testing have led to a precise asymptotic characterization of the number of tests required for high-probability recovery in the sublinear regime $k = n^{\theta}$ (with $\theta \in (0,1)$), with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Oliver Gebhard , Max Hahn-Klimroth , Olaf Parczyk , Manuel Penschuck , Maurice Rolvien , Jonathan Scarlett , Nelvin Tan

In this paper, we consider the group testing problem with adaptive test designs and noisy outcomes. We propose a computationally efficient four-stage procedure with components including random binning, identification of bins containing…

Computation · Statistics 2019-11-11 Jonathan Scarlett

In the group-testing literature, efficient algorithms have been developed to minimize the number of tests required to identify all minimal "defective" sub-groups embedded within a larger group, using deterministic group splitting with a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Laurence A. Clarfeld , Margaret J. Eppstein

In this paper, we introduce a variation of the group testing problem capturing the idea that a positive test requires a combination of multiple ``types'' of item. Specifically, we assume that there are multiple disjoint \emph{semi-defective…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Thach V. Bui , Jonathan Scarlett

In this paper, an information theoretic analysis on non-adaptive group testing schemes based on sparse pooling graphs is presented. The binary status of the objects to be tested are modeled by i.i.d. Bernoulli random variables with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-29 Tadashi Wadayama

The goal of combinatorial group testing is to efficiently identify up to $d$ defective items in a large population of $n$ items, where $d \ll n$. Defective items satisfy certain properties while the remaining items in the population do not.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Thach V. Bui , Minoru Kuribayashi , Mahdi Cheraghchi , Isao Echizen

Group testing concerns itself with the accurate recovery of a set of "defective" items from a larger population via a series of tests. While most works in this area have considered the classical group testing model, where tests are binary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Daniel McMorrow , Nikhil Karamchandani , Sidharth Jaggi

We study the problem of estimating the number of defective items $d$ within a pile of $n$ elements up to a multiplicative factor of $\Delta>1$, using deterministic group testing algorithms. We bring lower and upper bounds on the number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Nader H. Bshouty , Catherine A. Haddad-Zaknoon

This paper considers the noisy group testing problem where among a large population of items some are defective. The goal is to identify all defective items by testing groups of items, with the minimum possible number of tests. The focus of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Esmaeil Karimi , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Krishna R. Narayanan , Alex Sprintson

Given $d$ defective items in a population of $n$ items with $d \ll n$, in threshold group testing without gap, the outcome of a test on a subset of items is positive if the subset has at least $u$ defective items and negative otherwise,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Thach V. Bui , Yeow Meng Chee , Van Khu Vu