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Learning a hidden hypergraph is a natural generalization of the classical group testing problem that consists in detecting unknown hypergraph $H_{un}=H(V,E)$ by carrying out edge-detecting tests. In the given paper we focus our attention…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 A. G. D'yachkov , I. V. Vorobyev , N. A. Polyanskii , V. Yu. Shchukin

The group testing problem consists of determining a sparse subset of defective items from within a larger set of items via a series of tests, where each test outcome indicates whether at least one defective item is included in the test. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Daniel McMorrow , Jonathan Scarlett

Learning a hidden hypergraph is a natural generalization of the classical group testing problem that consists in detecting unknown hypergraph $H_{un}=H(V,E)$ by carrying out edge-detecting tests. In the given paper we focus our attention…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-05 A. G. D'yachkov , I. V. Vorobyev , N. A. Polyanskii , V. Yu. Shchukin

In comparison with individual testing, group testing (also known as pooled testing) is more efficient in reducing the number of tests and potentially leading to tremendous cost reduction. As indicated in the recent article posted on the US…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2021-06-16 Yi-Jheng Lin , Che-Hao Yu , Tzu-Hsuan Liu , Cheng-Shang Chang , Wen-Tsuen Chen

Group testing is the combinatorial problem of identifying the defective items in a population by grouping items into test pools. Recently, nonadaptive group testing - where all the test pools must be decided on at the start - has been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-31 Matthew Aldridge

A key requirement in containing contagious diseases, such as the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, is the ability to efficiently carry out mass diagnosis over large populations. Some of the leading testing procedures, such as…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-08-31 Amit Solomon , Alejandro Cohen , Nir Shlezinger , Yonina C. Eldar , Muriel Médard

In group testing, simple binary-output tests are designed to identify a small number $t$ of defective items that are present in a large population of $N$ items. Each test takes as input a group of items and produces a binary output…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Alexander Barg , Arya Mazumdar

Group testing enables the identification of a small subset of defective items within a larger population by performing tests on pools of items rather than on each item individually. Over the years, it has not only attracted attention from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Manuel Franco-Vivo

In combinatorial group testing (CGT), the objective is to identify the set of at most $d$ defective items from a pool of $n$ items using as few tests as possible. The celebrated result for the CGT problem is that the number of tests $t$ can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Huseyin A. Inan , Peter Kairouz , Ayfer Ozgur

Detection of defective members of large populations has been widely studied in the statistics community under the name "group testing", a problem which dates back to World War II when it was suggested for syphilis screening. There the main…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-09-28 Mahdi Cheraghchi , Ali Hormati , Amin Karbasi , Martin Vetterli

We consider the problem of identifying the defectives from a population of items via a non-adaptive group testing framework with a random pooling-matrix design. We analyze the sufficient number of tests needed for approximate set…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Sameera Bharadwaja H. , Chandra R. Murthy

Consider a collection of objects, some of which may be `bad', and a test which determines whether or not a given sub-collection contains no bad objects. The non-adaptive pooling (or group testing) problem involves identifying the bad…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-06 David J. Balding , David C. Torney

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

An instance of a group testing problem is a set of objects $\cO$ and an unknown subset $P$ of $\cO$. The task is to determine $P$ by using queries of the type ``does $P$ intersect $Q$'', where $Q$ is a subset of $\cO$. This problem occurs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Emanuel Knill

Group testing has recently attracted significant attention from the research community due to its applications in diagnostic virology. An instance of the group testing problem includes a ground set of individuals which includes a small…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Esmaeil Karimi , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Krishna R. Narayanan , Alex Sprintson

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

Property testing has been a major area of research in computer science in the last three decades. By property testing we refer to an ensemble of problems, results and algorithms which enable to deduce global information about some data by…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-01 Michael Chapman , Irit Dinur , Alexander Lubotzky

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 2019-05-01 Ilya Vorobyev

The group testing problem is concerned with identifying a small number $k \sim n^\theta$ for $\theta \in (0,1)$ of infected individuals in a large population of size $n$. At our disposal is a testing procedure that allows us to test groups…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Max Hahn-Klimroth , Philipp Loick

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