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Identification of defective members of large populations has been widely studied in the statistics community under the name of group testing. It involves grouping subsets of items into different pools and detecting defective members based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Mahdi Cheraghchi , Ali Hormati , Amin Karbasi , Martin Vetterli

Group testing is concerned with identifying $t$ defective items in a set of $m$ items, where each test reports whether a specific subset of items contains at least one defective. In non-adaptive group testing, the subsets to be tested are…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Benjamin Aram Berendsohn , László Kozma

In a group testing scheme, a set of tests is designed to identify a small number $t$ of defective items that are present among a large number $N$ of items. Each test takes as input a group of items and produces a binary output indicating…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Arya Mazumdar

The group testing problem consists of determining a sparse subset of defective items from within a larger set of items via a series of tests, where each test outcome indicates whether at least one defective item is included in the test. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Daniel McMorrow , Jonathan Scarlett

The study in group testing aims to develop strategies to identify a small set of defective items among a large population using a few pooled tests. The established techniques have been highly beneficial in a broad spectrum of applications…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Venkata Gandikota , Nikita Polyanskii , Haodong Yang

In group testing, the goal is to identify a subset of defective items within a larger set of items based on tests whose outcomes indicate whether any defective item is present. This problem is relevant in areas such as medical testing, data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Nelvin Tan , Jonathan Scarlett

We consider non-adaptive threshold group testing for identification of up to $d$ defective items in a set of $n$ items, where a test is positive if it contains at least $2 \leq u \leq d$ defective items, and negative otherwise. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Thach V. Bui , Minoru Kuribayashi , Mahdi Cheraghchi , Isao Echizen

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

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

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

\emph{Group Testing} (GT) addresses the problem of identifying a small subset of defective items from a large population, by grouping items into as few test pools as possible. In \emph{Adaptive GT} (AGT), outcomes of previous tests can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Alejandro Cohen , Asaf Cohen , Omer Gurewitz

This article reviews a class of adaptive group testing procedures that operate under a probabilistic model assumption as follows. Consider a set of $N$ items, where item $i$ has the probability $p$ ($p_i$ in the generalized group testing)…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-02-19 Yaakov Malinovsky , Paul S. Albert

The problem of Group Testing is to identify defective items out of a set of objects by means of pool queries of the form "Does the pool contain at least a defective?". The aim is of course to perform detection with the fewest possible…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Mézard , M. Tarzia , C. Toninelli

The goal of threshold group testing is to identify up to $d$ defective items among a population of $n$ items, where $d$ is usually much smaller than $n$. A test is positive if it has at least $u$ defective items and negative otherwise. Our…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Thach V. Bui , Minoru Kuribayashi , Mahdi Cheraghchi , Isao Echizen

This paper considers the problem of Quantitative Group Testing (QGT). Consider a set of $N$ items among which $K$ items are defective. The QGT problem is to identify (all or a sufficiently large fraction of) the defective items, where the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Esmaeil Karimi , Fatemeh Kazemi , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Krishna R. Narayanan , Alex Sprintson

This work focuses on non-adaptive combinatorial group testing, with a primary goal of efficiently identifying a set of at most $d$ defective elements among a given set of $n$ elements using the fewest possible tests. Non-adaptive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Daniil Goshkoder , Nikita Polyanskii , Ilya Vorobyev

Non-adaptive group testing involves grouping arbitrary subsets of $n$ items into different pools. Each pool is then tested and defective items are identified. A fundamental question involves minimizing the number of pools required to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-07-26 Mahdi Cheraghchi , Amin Karbasi , Soheil Mohajer , Venkatesh Saligrama

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

We consider the quantitative group testing problem where the objective is to identify defective items in a given population based on results of tests performed on subsets of the population. Under the quantitative group testing model, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Chao Wang , Qing Zhao , Chen-Nee Chuah

We consider a new group testing model wherein each item is a binary random variable defined by an a priori probability of being defective. We assume that each probability is small and that items are independent, but not necessarily…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Tongxin Li , Chun Lam Chan , Wenhao Huang , Tarik Kaced , Sidharth Jaggi