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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

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

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

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Steffen Bondorf , Binbin Chen , Jonathan Scarlett , Haifeng Yu , Yuda Zhao

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

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 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

The conventional model of disjunctive group testing assumes that there are several defective elements (or defectives) among a large population, and a group test yields the positive response if and only if the testing group contains at least…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-20 A. G. D'yachkov , N. A. Polyanskii , V. Yu. Shchukin , I. V. Vorobyev

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 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

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

The rapid development of derandomization theory, which is a fundamental area in theoretical computer science, has recently led to many surprising applications outside its initial intention. We will review some recent such developments…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Mahdi Cheraghchi

We study the problem of estimating the number of defective items $d$ within a pile of $n$ elements up to a multiplicative factor of $\Delta>1$, using deterministic group testing algorithms. We bring lower and upper bounds on the number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Nader H. Bshouty , Catherine A. Haddad-Zaknoon

In group testing, the task is to identify defective items by testing groups of them together using as few tests as possible. We consider the setting where each item is defective with a constant probability $\alpha$, independent of all other…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Lukas Hintze , Lena Krieg , Olga Scheftelowitsch , Haodong Zhu

For large classes of group testing problems, we derive lower bounds for the probability that all significant items are uniquely identified using specially constructed random designs. These bounds allow us to optimize parameters of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-17 Jack Noonan , Anatoly Zhigljavsky

The group testing problem concerns discovering a small number of defective items within a large population by performing tests on pools of items. A test is positive if the pool contains at least one defective, and negative if it contains no…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Matthew Aldridge , Oliver Johnson , Jonathan Scarlett

Group testing tackles the problem of identifying a population of $K$ defective items from a set of $n$ items by pooling groups of items efficiently in order to cut down the number of tests needed. The result of a test for a group of items…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-20 Kangwook Lee , Ramtin Pedarsani , Kannan Ramchandran

Let $1 \le s < t$, $N \ge 1$ be integers and a complex electronic circuit of size $t$ is said to be an $s$-active, $\; s \ll t$, and can work as a system block if not more than $s$ elements of the circuit are defective. Otherwise, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-26 A. G. D'yachkov , I. V. Vorobyev , N. A. Polyanskii , V. Yu. Shchukin

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

Detection of defective members of large populations has been widely studied in the statistics community under the name "group testing", a problem which dates back to World War II when it was suggested for syphilis screening. There the main…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-09-28 Mahdi Cheraghchi , Ali Hormati , Amin Karbasi , Martin Vetterli

We consider the probabilistic group testing problem where $d$ random defective items in a large population of $N$ items are identified with high probability by applying binary tests. It is known that $\Theta(d \log N)$ tests are necessary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Huseyin A. Inan , Peter Kairouz , Mary Wootters , Ayfer Ozgur