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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

The goal of group testing is to identify a small number of defective items within a large population. In the non-adaptive setting, tests are designed in advance and represented by a measurement matrix $\mM$, where rows correspond to tests…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Trung-Khang Tran , Thach V. Bui

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 discuss two non-standard models of nonadaptive combinatorial search which develop the conventional disjunct search model for a small number of defective elements contained in a finite ground set or a population. The first model is called…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-30 A. G. D'yachkov , A. J. Macula , D. C. Torney , P. A. Vilenkin

In the group-testing literature, efficient algorithms have been developed to minimize the number of tests required to identify all minimal "defective" sub-groups embedded within a larger group, using deterministic group splitting with a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Laurence A. Clarfeld , Margaret J. Eppstein

Combinatorial group testing (CGT) is used to identify defective items from a set of items by grouping them together and performing a small number of tests on the groups. Recently, group testing has been used to design efficient COVID-19…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Thais Bardini Idalino , Lucia Moura

Let $X$ be a set of items of size $n$ that contains 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 outcome of a test is $1$ if $Q$ contains at least…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Nader H. Bshouty

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

An approximate sparse recovery system consists of parameters $k,N$, an $m$-by-$N$ measurement matrix, $\Phi$, and a decoding algorithm, $\mathcal{D}$. Given a vector, $x$, the system approximates $x$ by $\widehat x =\mathcal{D}(\Phi x)$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-02-10 Anna C. Gilbert , Yi Li , Ely Porat , Martin J. Strauss

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

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

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 2016-07-05 A. G. D'yachkov , I. V. Vorobyev , N. A. Polyanskii , V. Yu. Shchukin

We study the problem of determining exactly the number of defective items in an adaptive Group testing by using a minimum number of tests. We improve the existing algorithm and prove a lower bound that shows that the number of tests in our…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Nader H. Bshouty , Catherine A. Haddad-Zaknoon , Raghd Boulos , Foad Moalem , Jalal Nada , Elias Noufi , Yara Zaknoon

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

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

Existing algorithms for subgroup discovery with numerical targets do not optimize the error or target variable dispersion of the groups they find. This often leads to unreliable or inconsistent statements about the data, rendering practical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-06 Mario Boley , Bryan R. Goldsmith , Luca M. Ghiringhelli , Jilles Vreeken

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

We present a neural network-based framework for solving the quantitative group testing (QGT) problem that achieves both high decoding accuracy and structural verifiability. In QGT, the objective is to identify a small subset of defective…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Shreyas Jayant Grampurohit , Satish Mulleti , Ajit Rajwade

We formulate and analyze a stochastic threshold group testing problem motivated by biological applications. Here a set of $n$ items contains a subset of $d \ll n$ defective items. Subsets (pools) of the $n$ items are tested -- the test…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-25 Chun Lam Chan , Sheng Cai , Mayank Bakshi , Sidharth Jaggi , Venkatesh Saligrama

Group-based sparsity models are proven instrumental in linear regression problems for recovering signals from much fewer measurements than standard compressive sensing. The main promise of these models is the recovery of "interpretable"…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-05 Luca Baldassarre , Nirav Bhan , Volkan Cevher , Anastasios Kyrillidis , Siddhartha Satpathi