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Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Daesung Kim , Hye Won Chung

We consider a generalization of group testing where the potentially contaminated sets are the members of a given hypergraph ${\cal F}=(V,E)$. This generalization finds application in contexts where contaminations can be conditioned by some…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Annalisa De Bonis

The high performance of denoising diffusion models for image generation has paved the way for their application in unsupervised medical anomaly detection. As diffusion-based methods require a lot of GPU memory and have long sampling times,…

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In Group Synchronization, one attempts to find a collection of unknown group elements from noisy measurements of their pairwise differences. Several important problems in vision and data analysis reduce to group synchronization over various…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Elad Romanov , Matan Gavish

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are a revolutionary force in the ongoing information revolution, and yet their intrinsic properties remain a mystery. In particular, it is widely known that DNNs are highly sensitive to noise, whether adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Netanel Raviv , Siddharth Jain , Pulakesh Upadhyaya , Jehoshua Bruck , Anxiao Jiang

We study the problem of learning an unknown graph via group queries on node subsets, where each query reports whether at least one edge is present among the queried nodes. In general, learning arbitrary graphs with $n$ nodes and $k$ edges…

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We determine the exact value of the optimal symmetric rate point $(r, r)$ in the Dueck zero-error capacity region of the binary adder channel with complete feedback. We proved that the average zero-error capacity $r = h(1/2-\delta) \approx…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Samuel H. Florin , Matthew H. Ho , Zilin Jiang

Numerous studies have shown that label noise can lead to poor generalization performance, negatively affecting classification accuracy. Therefore, understanding the effectiveness of classifiers trained using deep neural networks in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Haixia Liu , Boxiao Li , Can Yang , Yang Wang

We consider the problem of finding the minimum element in a list of length $N$ using a noisy comparator. The noise is modelled as follows: given two elements to compare, if the values of the elements differ by at least $\alpha$ by some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-31 Yihui Quek , Clement Canonne , Patrick Rebentrost

We theoretically introduce and experimentally demonstrate the realization of a nonclassicality test that allows for arbitrarily low detection efficiency without invoking any extra assumptions as independence of the devices. Our test and its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 A. Hameedi , B. Marques , P. Mironowicz , D. Saha , M. Pawlowski , M. Bourennane

The evaluation of noisy binary classifiers on unlabeled data is treated as a streaming task: given a data sketch of the decisions by an ensemble, estimate the true prevalence of the labels as well as each classifier's accuracy on them. Two…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-11 Andrés Corrada-Emmanuel

Property testing has been a major area of research in computer science in the last three decades. By property testing we refer to an ensemble of problems, results and algorithms which enable to deduce global information about some data by…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-01 Michael Chapman , Irit Dinur , Alexander Lubotzky

We consider the problem of duplicate detection in noisy and incomplete data: given a large data set in which each record has multiple entries (attributes), detect which distinct records refer to the same real world entity. This task is…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Yves van Gennip , Blake Hunter , Anna Ma , Daniel Moyer , Ryan de Vera , Andrea L. Bertozzi

Training deep neural network (DNN) with noisy labels is practically challenging since inaccurate labels severely degrade the generalization ability of DNN. Previous efforts tend to handle part or full data in a unified denoising flow via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Boshen Zhang , Yuxi Li , Yuanpeng Tu , Jinlong Peng , Yabiao Wang , Cunlin Wu , Yang Xiao , Cairong Zhao

In the group testing problem we aim to identify a small number of infected individuals within a large population. We avail ourselves to a procedure that can test a group of multiple individuals, with the test result coming out positive iff…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Amin Coja-Oghlan , Oliver Gebhard , Max Hahn-Klimroth , Philipp Loick

Image classification systems recently made a giant leap with the advancement of deep neural networks. However, these systems require an excessive amount of labeled data to be adequately trained. Gathering a correctly annotated dataset is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Görkem Algan , Ilkay Ulusoy

We consider here a classification method that balances two objectives: large similarity within the samples in the cluster, and large dissimilarity between the cluster and its complement. The method, referred to as HNC or SNC, requires seed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Dorit Hochbaum , Torpong Nitayanont

In industrial engineering and manufacturing, quality control is an essential part of the production process of a product. To ensure proper functionality of a manufactured good, rigorous testing has to be performed to identify defective…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-04-02 Michael Balzer

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

In this paper, we propose algorithms that leverage a known community structure to make group testing more efficient. We consider a population organized in disjoint communities: each individual participates in a community, and its infection…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Pavlos Nikolopoulos , Tao Guo , Sundara Rajan Srinivasavaradhan , Christina Fragouli , Suhas Diggavi