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The fundamental task of group testing is to recover a small distinguished subset of items from a large population while efficiently reducing the total number of tests (measurements). The key contribution of this paper is in adopting a new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-13 George Kamal Atia , Venkatesh Saligrama

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

The group testing problem consists of determining a small set of defective items from a larger set of items based on a number of possibly-noisy tests, and is relevant in applications such as medical testing, communication protocols, pattern…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Jonathan Scarlett , Oliver Johnson

In the group testing problem the aim is to identify a small set of $k\sim n^\theta$ infected individuals out of a population size $n$, $0<\theta<1$. We avail ourselves of a test procedure capable of testing groups of individuals, with the…

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

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 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 group testing problem consists of determining a small set of defective items from a larger set of items based on a number of tests, and is relevant in applications such as medical testing, communication protocols, pattern matching, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Jonathan Scarlett , Volkan Cevher

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 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

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 zero-error probabilistic group testing problem where individuals are defective independently but not with identical probabilities. We propose a greedy set formation method to build sets of individuals to be tested together. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Mustafa Doger , Sennur Ulukus

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

We consider the problem of identifying infected individuals in a population of size N. We introduce a group testing approach that uses significantly fewer than N tests when infection prevalence is low. The most common approach to group…

Applications · Statistics 2022-01-03 Paolo Bertolotti , Ali Jadbabaie

When faulty sensors are rare in a network, diagnosing sensors individually is inefficient. This study introduces a novel use of concepts from group testing and Kalman filtering in detecting these rare faulty sensors with significantly fewer…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-01-20 Chun Lo , Yechao Bai , Mingyan Liu , Jerome P. Lynch

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

Recent advances in noiseless non-adaptive group testing have led to a precise asymptotic characterization of the number of tests required for high-probability recovery in the sublinear regime $k = n^{\theta}$ (with $\theta \in (0,1)$), with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Oliver Gebhard , Max Hahn-Klimroth , Olaf Parczyk , Manuel Penschuck , Maurice Rolvien , Jonathan Scarlett , Nelvin Tan

Group testing, a problem with diverse applications across multiple disciplines, traditionally assumes independence across nodes' states. Recent research, however, focuses on real-world scenarios that often involve correlations among nodes,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Hesam Nikpey , Saswati Sarkar , Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti

We study the problem of group testing with non-identical, independent priors. So far, the pooling strategies that have been proposed in the literature take the following approach: a hand-crafted test design along with a decoding strategy is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Sundara Rajan Srinivasavaradhan , Pavlos Nikolopoulos , Christina Fragouli , Suhas Diggavi

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 at least one defective item is present. This problem is relevant in areas such as medical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Eric Price , Jonathan Scarlett , Nelvin Tan

We study the inference problem in the group testing to identify defective items from the perspective of the decision theory. We introduce Bayesian inference and consider the Bayesian optimal setting in which the true generative process of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Ayaka Sakata , Yoshiyuki Kabashima