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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

In recent years, the mathematical limits and algorithmic bounds for probabilistic group testing have become increasingly well-understood, with exact asymptotic thresholds now being known in general scaling regimes for the noiseless setting.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Junren Chen , Jonathan Scarlett

In this paper, we propose a computer-oriented method of construction of optimal group sequential hypothesis tests with variable group sizes. In particular, for independent and identically distributed observations we obtain the form of…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-03-30 Andrey Novikov

In this paper, we consider the group testing problem with adaptive test designs and noisy outcomes. We propose a computationally efficient four-stage procedure with components including random binning, identification of bins containing…

Computation · Statistics 2019-11-11 Jonathan Scarlett

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 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

Group testing concerns itself with the accurate recovery of a set of "defective" items from a larger population via a series of tests. While most works in this area have considered the classical group testing model, where tests are binary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Daniel McMorrow , Nikhil Karamchandani , Sidharth Jaggi

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 consider nonadaptive group testing where each item is placed in a constant number of tests. The tests are chosen uniformly at random with replacement, so the testing matrix has (almost) constant column weights. We show that performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-23 Matthew Aldridge , Oliver Johnson , Jonathan Scarlett

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

The group testing problem is concerned with identifying a small set of infected individuals in a large population. At our disposal is a testing procedure that allows us to test several individuals together. In an idealized setting, a test…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Oliver Gebhard , Oliver Johnson , Philipp Loick , Maurice Rolvien

Group synchronization asks to recover group elements from their pairwise measurements. It has found numerous applications across various scientific disciplines. In this work, we focus on orthogonal and permutation group synchronization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Shuyang Ling

We consider a group synchronization problem with multiple frequencies which involves observing pairwise relative measurements of group elements on multiple frequency channels, corrupted by Gaussian noise. We study the computational phase…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-06 Anastasia Kireeva , Afonso S. Bandeira , Dmitriy Kunisky

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

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

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

We consider the problem of group testing (pooled testing), first introduced by Dorfman. For non-adaptive testing strategies, we refer to a non-defective item as `intruding' if it only appears in positive tests. Such items cause…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Letian Yu , Fraser Daly , Oliver Johnson

The emerging problem of joint community detection and group synchronization, with applications in signal processing and machine learning, has been extensively studied in recent years. Previous research has predominantly focused on a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Yifeng Fan , Zhizhen Zhao

In this paper, we consider the problem of noiseless non-adaptive group testing under the for-each recovery guarantee, also known as probabilistic group testing. In the case of $n$ items and $k$ defectives, we provide an algorithm attaining…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Eric Price , Jonathan Scarlett

We consider Bernoulli nonadaptive group testing with $k = \Theta(n^\theta)$ defectives, for $\theta \in (0,1)$. The practical definite defectives (DD) detection algorithm is known to be optimal for $\theta \geq 1/2$. We give a new upper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Matthew Aldridge