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We study a correlated group testing model where items are infected according to a Markov chain, which creates bursty binfection patterns. Focusing on a very sparse infections regime, we propose a non adaptive testing strategy with an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Aditya Narayan Ravi , Ilan Shomorony

Testing to see whether a given data set comes from some specified distribution is among the oldest types of problems in Statistics. Many such tests have been developed and their performance studied. The general result has been that while a…

Applications · Statistics 2020-12-07 Wolfgang Rolke

Consider a finite population of $N$ items, where item $i$ has a probability $p_i$ to be defective. The goal is to identify all items by means of group testing. This is the generalized group testing problem (hereafter GGTP). In the case of…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2020-02-28 Yaakov Malinovsky

We consider sequential hypothesis testing between two quantum states using adaptive and non-adaptive strategies. In this setting, samples of an unknown state are requested sequentially and a decision to either continue or to accept one of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-07 Yonglong Li , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Marco Tomamichel

The group testing problem is concerned with identifying a small number $k \sim n^\theta$ for $\theta \in (0,1)$ of infected individuals in a large population of size $n$. At our disposal is a testing procedure that allows us to test groups…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Max Hahn-Klimroth , Philipp Loick

We study a binary distributed hypothesis testing problem where two agents observe correlated binary vectors and communicate compressed information at the same rate to a central decision maker. In particular, we study linear compression…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Adway Girish , Robinson D. H. Cung , Emre Telatar

We propose a new setting for testing properties of distributions while receiving samples from several distributions, but few samples per distribution. Given samples from $s$ distributions, $p_1, p_2, \ldots, p_s$, we design testers for the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Maryam Aliakbarpour , Sandeep Silwal

Given observations from a circular random variable contaminated by an additive measurement error, we consider the problem of minimax optimal goodness-of-fit testing in a non-asymptotic framework. We propose direct and indirect testing…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Sandra Schluttenhofer , Jan Johannes

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 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 the combinatorial problem of identifying the defective items in a population by grouping items into test pools. Recently, nonadaptive group testing - where all the test pools must be decided on at the start - has been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-31 Matthew Aldridge

Linear independence testing is a fundamental information-theoretic and statistical problem that can be posed as follows: given $n$ points $\{(X_i,Y_i)\}^n_{i=1}$ from a $p+q$ dimensional multivariate distribution where $X_i \in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-01-26 Aaditya Ramdas , David Isenberg , Aarti Singh , Larry Wasserman

We consider the problem of non-adaptive group testing of $N$ items out of which $K$ or less items are known to be defective. We propose a testing scheme based on left-and-right-regular sparse-graph codes and a simple iterative decoder. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-27 Avinash Vem , Nagaraj T. Janakiraman , Krishna R. Narayanan

In group testing, simple binary-output tests are designed to identify a small number $t$ of defective items that are present in a large population of $N$ items. Each test takes as input a group of items and produces a binary output…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Alexander Barg , Arya Mazumdar

Consider the multiple testing problem of testing k null hypotheses, where the unknown family of distributions is assumed to satisfy a certain monotonicity assumption. Attention is restricted to procedures that control the familywise error…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 E. L. Lehmann , Joseph P. Romano , Juliet Popper Shaffer

The group testing problem is concerned with identifying a small set of $k$ infected individuals in a large population of $n$ people. At our disposal is a testing scheme that can test groups of individuals. A test comes back positive if and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Oliver Gebhard , Philipp Loick

The group testing problem is concerned with identifying a small set of infected individuals in a large population. At our disposal is a testing procedure that allows us to test several individuals together. In an idealized setting, a test…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Oliver Gebhard , Oliver Johnson , Philipp Loick , Maurice Rolvien

Group testing is a well-known search problem that consists in detecting of $s$ defective members of a set of $t$ samples by carrying out tests on properly chosen subsets of samples. In classical group testing the goal is to find all…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Ilya Vorobyev

Independence testing is a fundamental problem in statistical inference: given samples from a joint distribution $p$ over multiple random variables, the goal is to determine whether $p$ is a product distribution or is $\epsilon$-far from all…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-06 Maryam Aliakbarpour , Alireza Azizi , Ria Stevens

In this paper, we consider the problem of noiseless non-adaptive group testing under the for-each recovery guarantee, also known as probabilistic group testing. In the case of $n$ items and $k$ defectives, we provide an algorithm attaining…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Eric Price , Jonathan Scarlett