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We consider the problem of identifying the defectives from a population of items via a non-adaptive group testing framework with a random pooling-matrix design. We analyze the sufficient number of tests needed for approximate set…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Sameera Bharadwaja H. , Chandra R. Murthy

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

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

This paper considers the problem of Quantitative Group Testing (QGT) where there are some defective items among a large population of $N$ items. We consider the scenario in which each item is defective with probability $K/N$, independently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Esmaeil Karimi , Fatemeh Kazemi , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Krishna R. Narayanan , Alex Sprintson

The goal of non-adaptive group testing is to identify at most $d$ defective items from $N$ items, in which a test of a subset of $N$ items is positive if it contains at least one defective item, and negative otherwise. However, in many…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Thach V. Bui , Tetsuya Kojima , Minoru Kuribayashi , Isao Echizen

We consider the problem of detecting a small subset of defective items from a large set via non-adaptive "random pooling" group tests. We consider both the case when the measurements are noiseless, and the case when the measurements are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-07-25 Chun Lam Chan , Pak Hou Che , Sidharth Jaggi , Venkatesh Saligrama

In this paper, we derive mutual information based upper and lower bounds on the number of nonadaptive group tests required to identify a given number of "non defective" items from a large population containing a small number of "defective"…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Abhay Sharma , Chandra R. Murthy

Group-testing refers to the problem of identifying (with high probability) a (small) subset of $D$ defectives from a (large) set of $N$ items via a "small" number of "pooled" tests. For ease of presentation in this work we focus on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-11 Sheng Cai , Mohammad Jahangoshahi , Mayank Bakshi , Sidharth Jaggi

Let $X$ be a set of items of size $n$ , which may contain some defective items denoted by $I$, where $I \subseteq X$. In group testing, a {\it test} refers to a subset of items $Q \subset X$. The test outcome is $1$ (positive) if $Q$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Nader H. Bshouty , Gergely Harcos

We study the problem of estimating the number of defective items in adaptive Group testing by using a minimum number of queries. We improve the existing algorithm and prove a lower bound that show that, for constant estimation, the number…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Nader H. Bshouty , Vivian E. Bshouty-Hurani , George Haddad , Thomas Hashem , Fadi Khoury , Omar Sharafy

In the classical non-adaptive group testing setup, pools of items are tested together, and the main goal of a recovery algorithm is to identify the "complete defective set" given the outcomes of different group tests. In contrast, the main…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Abhay Sharma , Chandra R. Murthy

The original problem of group testing consists in the identification of defective items in a collection, by applying tests on groups of items that detect the presence of at least one defective item in the group. The aim is then to identify…

Applications · Statistics 2021-06-10 Emilien Joly , Bastien Mallein

In this paper, we study the problem of non-adaptive group testing, in which one seeks to identify which items are defective given a set of suitably-designed tests whose outcomes indicate whether or not at least one defective item was…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Lan V. Truong , Matthew Aldridge , Jonathan Scarlett

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

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

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

Group testing is a well known search problem that consists in detecting the defective members of a set of objects O by performing tests on properly chosen subsets (pools) of the given set O. In classical group testing the goal is to find…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-13 Annalisa De Bonis

Non-adaptive group testing refers to the problem of inferring a sparse set of defectives from a larger population using the minimum number of simultaneous pooled tests. Recent positive results for noiseless group testing have motivated the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Gabriel Arpino , Nicolò Grometto , Afonso S. Bandeira

We consider the nonadaptive group testing with N items, of which $K = \Theta(N^\theta)$ are defective. We study a test design in which each item appears in nearly the same number of tests. For each item, we independently pick L tests…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Oliver Johnson , Matthew Aldridge , Jonathan Scarlett

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