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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

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 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

Group testing is utilized in the case when we want to find a few defectives among large amount of items. Testing n items one by one requires n tests, but if the ratio of defectives is small, group testing is an efficient way to reduce the…

Computation · Statistics 2024-05-16 Hiroyasu Matsushima , Yusuke Tajima , Xiao-Nan Lu , Masakazu Jimbo

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-testing refers to the problem of identifying (with high probability) a (small) subset of $D$ defectives from a (large) set of $N$ items via a "small" number of "pooled" tests. For ease of presentation in this work we focus on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-11 Sheng Cai , Mohammad Jahangoshahi , Mayank Bakshi , Sidharth Jaggi

In this paper, we propose algorithms that leverage a known community structure to make group testing more efficient. We consider a population organized in connected communities: each individual participates in one or more communities, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Pavlos Nikolopoulos , Sundara Rajan Srinivasavaradhan , Tao Guo , Christina Fragouli , Suhas Diggavi

We study Probabilistic Group Testing of a set of N items each of which is defective with probability p. We focus on the double limit of small defect probability, p<<1, and large number of variables, N>>1, taking either p->0 after…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-11-14 Marc Mezard , Cristina Toninelli

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 2018-10-05 Jonathan Scarlett

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

Group testing is the process of pooling arbitrary subsets from a set of $n$ items so as to identify, with a minimal number of tests, a "small" subset of $d$ defective items. In "classical" non-adaptive group testing, it is known that when…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Venkata Gandikota , Elena Grigorescu , Sidharth Jaggi , Samson Zhou

In probabilistic nonadaptive group testing (PGT), we aim to characterize the number of pooled tests necessary to identify a random $k$-sparse vector of defectives with high probability. Recent work has shown that $n$ tests are necessary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Larkin Flodin , Arya Mazumdar

Non-adaptive group testing refers to the problem of inferring a sparse set of defectives from a larger population using the minimum number of simultaneous pooled tests. Recent positive results for noiseless group testing have motivated the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Gabriel Arpino , Nicolò Grometto , Afonso S. Bandeira

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

When the infection prevalence of a disease is low, Dorfman showed 80 years ago that testing groups of people can prove more efficient than testing people individually. Our goal in this paper is to propose new group testing algorithms that…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-07-23 Marco Cuturi , Olivier Teboul , Quentin Berthet , Arnaud Doucet , Jean-Philippe Vert

Group testing is a well-known search problem that consists in detecting of $s$ defective members of a set of $t$ samples by carrying out tests on properly chosen subsets of samples. In classical group testing the goal is to find all…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Ilya Vorobyev

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

We study a correlated group testing model where items are infected according to a Markov chain, which creates bursty binfection patterns. Focusing on a very sparse infections regime, we propose a non adaptive testing strategy with an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Aditya Narayan Ravi , Ilan Shomorony

In a group testing scheme, a set of tests is designed to identify a small number $t$ of defective items that are present among a large number $N$ of items. Each test takes as input a group of items and produces a binary output indicating…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Arya Mazumdar