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We consider the group testing problem, in the case where the items are defective independently but with non-constant probability. We introduce and analyse an algorithm to solve this problem by grouping items together appropriately. We give…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-04 Tom Kealy , Oliver Johnson , Robert Piechocki

We study group-testing algorithms for resolving broadcast conflicts on a multiple access channel (MAC) and for identifying the dead sensors in a mobile ad hoc wireless network. In group-testing algorithms, we are asked to identify all the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-05-13 Michael T. Goodrich , Daniel S. Hirschberg

In the problem of classical group testing one aims to identify a small subset (of size $d$) diseased individuals/defective items in a large population (of size $n$). This process is based on a minimal number of suitably-designed group tests…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Xiwei Cheng , Sidharth Jaggi , Qiaoqiao Zhou

Group testing is the process of pooling arbitrary subsets from a set of $n$ items so as to identify, with a minimal number of tests, a "small" subset of $d$ defective items. In "classical" non-adaptive group testing, it is known that when…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Venkata Gandikota , Elena Grigorescu , Sidharth Jaggi , Samson Zhou

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 basic goal in combinatorial group testing is to identify a set of up to $d$ defective items within a large population of size $n \gg d$ using a pooling strategy. Namely, the items can be grouped together in pools, and a single…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-01-21 Mahdi Cheraghchi

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

Efficiently counting or detecting defective items is a crucial task in various fields ranging from biological testing to quality control to streaming algorithms. The \emph{group testing estimation problem} concerns estimating the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Nader H. Bshouty , Tsun-Ming Cheung , Gergely Harcos , Hamed Hatami , Anthony Ostuni

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 introduce a novel probabilistic group testing framework, termed Poisson group testing, in which the number of defectives follows a right-truncated Poisson distribution. The Poisson model has a number of new applications, including…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Amin Emad , Olgica Milenkovic

When $k$ factors each taking one of $v$ levels may affect the correctness or performance of a complex system, a test is selected by setting each factor to one of its levels and determining whether the system functions as expected (passes…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-06 Charles J. Colbourn , Bingli Fan , Daniel Horsley

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

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

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

Consider a very large (infinite) population of items, where each item independent from the others is defective with probability p, or good with probability q=1-p. The goal is to identify N good items as quickly as possible. The following…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2018-04-17 Yaakov Malinovsky

\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

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

The task of non-adaptive group testing is to identify up to $d$ defective items from $N$ items, where a test is positive if it contains at least one defective item, and negative otherwise. If there are $t$ tests, they can be represented as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Thach V. Bui , Minoru Kuribayashi , Tetsuya Kojima , Roghayyeh Haghvirdinezhad , Isao Echizen

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…

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