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In the long-studied problem of combinatorial group testing, one is asked to detect a set of $k$ defective items out of a population of size $n$, using $m \ll n$ disjunctive measurements. In the non-adaptive setting, the most widely used…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Mahdi Cheraghchi , Vasileios Nakos

We describe a substring search problem that arises in group presentation simplification processes. We suggest a two-level searching model: skip and match levels. We give two timestamp algorithms which skip searching parts of the text where…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2009-09-25 George Havas , Jin Xian Lian

Generative models typically sample outputs independently, and recent inference-time guidance and scaling algorithms focus on improving the quality of individual samples. However, in real-world applications, users are often presented with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Gaurav Parmar , Or Patashnik , Daniil Ostashev , Kuan-Chieh Wang , Kfir Aberman , Srinivasa Narasimhan , Jun-Yan Zhu

The group testing problem asks for efficient pooling schemes and algorithms that allow to screen moderately large numbers of samples for rare infections. The goal is to accurately identify the infected samples while conducting the least…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-19 AminCoja-Oghlan , Max Hahn-Klimroth , Philipp Loick , Manuel Penschuck

We consider a group synchronization problem with multiple frequencies which involves observing pairwise relative measurements of group elements on multiple frequency channels, corrupted by Gaussian noise. We study the computational phase…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-06 Anastasia Kireeva , Afonso S. Bandeira , Dmitriy Kunisky

In this paper, we consider the problem of noiseless non-adaptive probabilistic group testing, in which the goal is high-probability recovery of the defective set. We show that in the case of $n$ items among which $k$ are defective, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Wei Heng Bay , Eric Price , Jonathan Scarlett

In this work, we consider the sparsity-constrained community-based group testing problem, where the population follows a community structure. In particular, the community consists of $F$ families, each with $M$ members. A number $k_f$ out…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Sarthak Jain , Martina Cardone , Soheil Mohajer

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

Community structure is one of the most important features of real networks and reveals the internal organization of the nodes. Many algorithms have been proposed but the crucial issue of testing, i.e. the question of how good an algorithm…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-10-30 Andrea Lancichinetti , Santo Fortunato , Filippo Radicchi

Consider a collection of objects, some of which may be `bad', and a test which determines whether or not a given sub-collection contains no bad objects. The non-adaptive pooling (or group testing) problem involves identifying the bad…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-06 David J. Balding , David C. Torney

Group testing can help maintain a widespread testing program using fewer resources amid a pandemic. In a group testing setup, we are given n samples, one per individual. Each individual is either infected or uninfected. These samples are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-19 Shu-Jie Cao , Ritesh Goenka , Chau-Wai Wong , Ajit Rajwade , Dror Baron

The problem and implications of community detection in networks have raised a huge attention, for its important applications in both natural and social sciences. A number of algorithms has been developed to solve this problem, addressing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-02-28 Cristian Bisconti , Angelo Corallo , Laura Fortunato , Antonio A. Gentile

We prove the tightest-known upper bounds on the sample complexity of multi-group learning. Our algorithm extends the one-inclusion graph prediction strategy using a generalization of bipartite $b$-matching. In the group-realizable setting,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Noah Bergam , Samuel Deng , Daniel Hsu

Cluster analysis is a fundamental research issue in statistics and machine learning. In many modern clustering methods, we need to determine whether two subsets of samples come from the same cluster. Since these subsets are usually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Xinying Liu , Lianyu Hu , Mudi Jiang , Simeng Zhang , Jun Lou , Zengyou He

We revisit the selection problem, namely that of computing the $i$th order statistic of $n$ given elements, in particular the classic deterministic algorithm by grouping and partition due to Blum, Floyd, Pratt, Rivest, and Tarjan (1973).…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Ke Chen , Adrian Dumitrescu

Semiquantitative group testing (SQGT) is a pooling method in which the test outcomes represent bounded intervals for the number of defectives. Alternatively, it may be viewed as an adder channel with quantized outputs. SQGT represents a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Mahdi Cheraghchi , Ryan Gabrys , Olgica Milenkovic

We consider adaptive group testing in the linear regime, where the number of defective items scales linearly with the number of items. We analyse an algorithm based on generalized binary splitting. Provided fewer than half the items are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Matthew Aldridge

When the infection prevalence of a disease is low, Dorfman showed 80 years ago that testing groups of people can prove more efficient than testing people individually. Our goal in this paper is to propose new group testing algorithms that…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-07-23 Marco Cuturi , Olivier Teboul , Quentin Berthet , Arnaud Doucet , Jean-Philippe Vert

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…

Combinatorial group testing (CGT) is used to identify defective items from a set of items by grouping them together and performing a small number of tests on the groups. Recently, group testing has been used to design efficient COVID-19…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Thais Bardini Idalino , Lucia Moura