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Quantum state learning is a fundamental problem in physics and computer science. As near-term quantum devices are error-prone, it is important to design error-resistant algorithms. Apart from device errors, other unexpected factors could…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-20 Maryam Aliakbarpour , Vladimir Braverman , Nai-Hui Chia , Yuhan Liu

We consider the group testing problem, in which one seeks to identify a subset of defective items within a larger set of items based on a number of noisy tests. While matching achievability and converse bounds are known in several cases of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-05 Jonathan Scarlett , Volkan Cevher

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

In this paper we study a new, generalized version of the well-known group testing problem. In the classical model of group testing we are given n objects, some of which are considered to be defective. We can test certain subsets of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-04-09 Dániel Gerbner , Balázs Keszegh , Dömötör Pálvölgyi , Gábor Wiener

Distribution estimation for noisy data via density deconvolution is a notoriously difficult problem for typical noise distributions like Gaussian. We develop a density deconvolution estimator based on quadratic programming (QP) that can…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-12-06 Ran Yang , Daniel Apley , Jeremy Staum , David Ruppert

In the problem of classical group testing one aims to identify a small subset (of size $d$) diseased individuals/defective items in a large population (of size $n$). This process is based on a minimal number of suitably-designed group tests…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Xiwei Cheng , Sidharth Jaggi , Qiaoqiao Zhou

This paper studies recursive composite hypothesis testing in a network of sparsely connected agents. The network objective is to test a simple null hypothesis against a composite alternative concerning the state of the field, modeled as a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-23 Anit Kumar Sahu , Soummya Kar

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 has numerous practical applications. One of the defining features of group testing is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Bernard Teo , Jonathan Scarlett

In this paper, we introduce a variation of the group testing problem where each test is specified by an ordered subset of items and returns the first defective item in the specified order or returns null if there are no defectives. We refer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Waqar Mirza , Nikhil Karamchandani , Niranjan Balachandran

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

In the classical combinatorial (adaptive) group testing problem, one is given two integers \(d\) and \(n\), where \(0\le d\le n\), and a population of \(n\) items, exactly \(d\) of which are known to be defective. The question is to devise…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-07-24 David Cariolaro , Zhaiming Shen , Yi Zhang

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 is a technique which avoids individually testing $n$ samples for a rare disease and instead tests $n < p$ pools, where a pool consists of a mixture of small, equal portions of a subset of the $p$ samples. Group testing saves…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-29 Richeek Das , Aaron Jerry Ninan , Adithya Bhaskar , Ajit Rajwade

Quantum samplers are believed capable of sampling efficiently from distributions that are classically hard to sample from. We consider a sampler inspired by the classical Ising model. It is nonadaptive and therefore experimentally amenable.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Theodoros Kapourniotis , Animesh Datta

A quantum computer -- i.e., a computer capable of manipulating data in quantum superposition -- would find applications including factoring, quantum simulation and tests of basic quantum theory. Since quantum superpositions are fragile, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ben W. Reichardt

Noise is an important factor that influences the reliability of information acquisition, transmission, processing, and storage. In order to suppress the inevitable noise effects, a fault-tolerant information processing approach via quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Qi Song , Hongjing Li , Chengxi Yu , Jingzheng Huang , Ding Wang , Peng Huang , Guihua Zeng

In the long-studied problem of combinatorial group testing, one is asked to detect a set of $k$ defective items out of a population of size $n$, using $m \ll n$ disjunctive measurements. In the non-adaptive setting, the most widely used…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Mahdi Cheraghchi , Vasileios Nakos

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

Efficiently counting or detecting defective items is a crucial task in various fields ranging from biological testing to quality control to streaming algorithms. The \emph{group testing estimation problem} concerns estimating the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Nader H. Bshouty , Tsun-Ming Cheung , Gergely Harcos , Hamed Hatami , Anthony Ostuni

In this work we prove non-trivial impossibility results for perhaps the simplest non-linear estimation problem, that of {\it Group Testing} (GT), via the recently developed Madiman-Tetali inequalities. Group Testing concerns itself with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Abhishek Agarwal , Sidharth Jaggi , Arya Mazumdar