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While most existing sparse recovery results allow only minimal structure within the measurement scheme, many practical problems possess significant structure. To address this gap, we present a framework for structured measurements that are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Timm Gilles , Hartmut Führ

Choosing an optimal strategy for hierarchical group testing is an important problem for practitioners who are interested in disease screening with limited resources. For example, when screening for infectious diseases in large populations,…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-02-27 Yaakov Malinovsky , Gregory Haber , Paul S. Albert

In group testing, the goal is to identify a subset of defective items within a larger set of items based on tests whose outcomes indicate whether any defective item is present. This problem is relevant in areas such as medical testing, data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Nelvin Tan , Jonathan Scarlett

We introduce an application of the group lasso to design of experiments. Note that we are NOT trying to explain experimental design for the group lasso. Conversely, we explain how we can use the idea of the group lasso in experimental…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-26 Kentaro Tanaka , Masami Miyakawa

In industrial engineering and manufacturing, quality control is an essential part of the production process of a product. To ensure proper functionality of a manufactured good, rigorous testing has to be performed to identify defective…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-04-02 Michael Balzer

In applications of group testing in networks, e.g. identifying individuals who are infected by a disease spread over a network, exploiting correlation among network nodes provides fundamental opportunities in reducing the number of tests…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Hesam Nikpey , Jungyeol Kim , Xingran Chen , Saswati Sarkar , Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti

Group testing is a well known search problem that consists in detecting the defective members of a set of objects O by performing tests on properly chosen subsets (pools) of the given set O. In classical group testing the goal is to find…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-13 Annalisa De Bonis

Crossover designs are an extremely useful tool to investigators, whilst group sequential methods have proven highly proficient at improving the efficiency of parallel group trials. Yet, group sequential methods and crossover designs have…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-10-11 Michael Grayling , James Wason , Adrian Mander

We study the problem usually referred to as group testing in the context of COVID-19. Given $n$ samples taken from patients, how should we select mixtures of samples to be tested, so as to maximize information and minimize the number of…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-05-14 Louis Abraham , Gary Bécigneul , Bernhard Schölkopf

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

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

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

Testing is recommended for all close contacts of confirmed COVID-19 patients. However, existing group testing methods are oblivious to the circumstances of contagion provided by contact tracing. Here, we build upon a well-known…

Applications · Statistics 2021-07-01 Stratis Tsirtsis , Abir De , Lars Lorch , Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez

In group testing, the goal is to identify a subset of defective items within a larger set of items based on tests whose outcomes indicate whether at least one defective item is present. This problem is relevant in areas such as medical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Eric Price , Jonathan Scarlett , Nelvin Tan

Group sequential design (GSD) is widely used in clinical trials in which correlated tests of multiple hypotheses are used. Multiple primary objectives resulting in tests with known correlations include evaluating 1) multiple experimental…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-03-22 Keaven M. Anderson , Zifang Guo , Jing Zhao , Linda Z. Sun

In the context of a pandemic like COVID-19, and until most people are vaccinated, proactive testing and interventions have been proved to be the only means to contain the disease spread. Recent academic work has offered significant evidence…

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

We describe a generalization of the group testing problem termed symmetric group testing. Unlike in classical binary group testing, the roles played by the input symbols zero and one are "symmetric" while the outputs are drawn from a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-08-16 Amin Emad , Jun Shen , Olgica Milenkovic

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

We consider the problem of identifying infected individuals in a population of size N. We introduce a group testing approach that uses significantly fewer than N tests when infection prevalence is low. The most common approach to group…

Applications · Statistics 2022-01-03 Paolo Bertolotti , Ali Jadbabaie