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Given observations from a positive random variable contaminated by multiplicative measurement error, we consider a nonparametric goodness-of-fit testing task for its unknown density in a non-asymptotic framework. We propose a testing…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Jan Johannes , Bianca Neubert

We consider the problem of group testing with sum observations and noiseless answers, in which we aim to locate multiple objects by querying the number of objects in each of a sequence of chosen sets. We study a probabilistic setting with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-24 Weidong Han , Purnima Rajan , Peter I. Frazier , Bruno M. Jedynak

In epidemic or pandemic situations, resources for testing the infection status of individuals may be scarce. Although group testing can help to significantly increase testing capabilities, the (repeated) testing of entire populations can…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2021-10-29 Günther Koliander , Georg Pichler

Given a symmetric social network, we are interested in testing whether it has only one community or multiple communities. The desired tests should (a) accommodate severe degree heterogeneity, (b) accommodate mixed-memberships, (c) have a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-23 Jiashun Jin , Zheng Tracy Ke , Shengming Luo

In nonadaptive group testing, the main research objective is to design an efficient algorithm to identify a set of up to $t$ positive elements among $n$ samples with as few tests as possible. Disjunct matrices and separable matrices are two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-15 Bingchen Qian , Xin Wang , Gennian Ge

We consider Bayesian multiple statistical classification problem in the case where the unknown source distributions are estimated from the labeled training sequences, then the estimates are used as nominal distributions in a robust…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Hüseyin Afşer

We study sequential testing for a binary disease outcome when risk follows an unknown logistic model. At each round, the decision maker may either pay for a test revealing the true label or predict the outcome based on patient features and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Tavor Z. Baharav , Spyros Dragazis , Aldo Pacchiano

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

In software development process we come across various modules. Which raise the idea of priority of the different modules of a software so that important modules are tested on preference. This approach is desirable because it is not…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2009-05-10 Amit K Awasthi , Sanjay Chaudhary

Testing probabilistic programs is non-trivial due to their stochastic nature. Given an input, the program may produce different outcomes depending on the underlying stochastic choices in the program. This means testing the expected outcomes…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Katrine Christensen , Mahsa Varshosaz , Raúl Pardo

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

A combinatorial analysis of the false alarm (FA) and misdetection (MD) probabilities of non-adaptive group testing with sparse pooling graphs is developed. The analysis targets the combinatorial orthogonal matching pursuit and definite…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Emna Ben Yacoub , Gianluigi Liva , Enrico Paolini , Marco Chiani

Medical diagnostic testing can be made significantly more efficient using pooled testing protocols. These typically require a sparse infection signal and use either binary or real-valued entries of O(1). However, existing methods do not…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-03-15 Mansoor Sheikh , David Saad

Assessing risk of cascading failure in an electrical grid requires identifying many small "defective" subsets of the N elements in a power system, such that the simultaneous failure of all elements in a defective set triggers a large…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-09-11 Laurence A. Clarfeld , Margaret J. Eppstein

The higher criticism of a family of tests starts with the individual uncorrected p-values of each test. It then requires a procedure for deciding whether the collection of p-values indicates the presence of a real effect and if possible…

In the search for genetic factors that are associated with complex heritable human traits, considerable attention is now being focused on rare variants that individually have small effects. In response, numerous recent papers have proposed…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-09-10 Andriy Derkach , Jerry F. Lawless , Lei Sun

In this paper, we study the problem of quantitative group testing (QGT) and analyze the performance of three models: the noiseless model, the additive Gaussian noise model, and the noisy Z-channel model. For each model, we analyze two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Tenghao Li , Neha Sangwan , Xiaxin Li , Arya Mazumdar

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 present paper establishes new multiple procedures for simultaneous testing of a large number of hypotheses under dependence. Special attention is devoted to experiments with rare false hypotheses. This sparsity assumption is typically…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-01 Marc Ditzhaus , Arnold Janssen

We consider the problem of testing whether an unknown $n$-qubit quantum state $|\psi\rangle$ is a stabilizer state, with only single-copy access. We give an algorithm solving this problem using $O(n)$ copies, and conversely prove that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Marcel Hinsche , Jonas Helsen