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Deploying trustworthy AI systems requires principled uncertainty quantification. Conformal prediction (CP) is a widely used framework for constructing prediction sets with distribution-free coverage guarantees. In many practical settings,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Haifeng Wen , Osvaldo Simeone , Hong Xing

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

Group testing was conceived during World War II to identify soldiers infected with syphilis using as few tests as possible, and it has attracted renewed interest during the COVID-19 pandemic. A long-standing assumption in the probabilistic…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Surin Ahn , Wei-Ning Chen , Ayfer Ozgur

Given entities and their interactions in the web data, which may have occurred at different time, how can we find communities of entities and track their evolution? In this paper, we approach this important task from graph clustering…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Namyong Park , Ryan Rossi , Eunyee Koh , Iftikhar Ahamath Burhanuddin , Sungchul Kim , Fan Du , Nesreen Ahmed , Christos Faloutsos

Combinatorial Testing (CT) is a potentially powerful testing technique, whereas its failure revealing ability might be dramatically reduced if it fails to handle constraints in an adequate and efficient manner. To ensure the wider…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Huayao Wu , Changhai Nie , Justyna Petke , Yue Jia , Mark Harman

Pathogenic infections pose a significant threat to global health, affecting millions of people every year and presenting substantial challenges to healthcare systems worldwide. Efficient and timely testing plays a critical role in disease…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-08-03 Ananthan Nambiar , Chao Pan , Vishal Rana , Mahdi Cheraghchi , João Ribeiro , Sergei Maslov , Olgica Milenkovic

In combinatorial group testing problems Questioner needs to find a defective element $x\in [n]$ by testing subsets of $[n]$. In [18] the authors introduced a new model, where each element knows the answer for those queries that contain it…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Dániel Gerbner , Máté Vizer

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

The paper describes a framework for multi-function system testing. Multi-function system testing is considered as fusion (or revelation) of clique-like structures. The following sets are considered: (i) subsystems (system parts or units /…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Mark Sh. Levin

We consider a novel group testing procedure, termed semi-quantitative group testing, motivated by a class of problems arising in genome sequence processing. Semi-quantitative group testing (SQGT) is a non-binary pooling scheme that may be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-22 Amin Emad , Olgica Milenkovic

The principal goal of Group Testing (GT) is to identify a small subset of "defective" items from a large population, by grouping items into as few test pools as possible. The test outcome of a pool is positive if it contains at least one…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Alejandro Cohen , Asaf Cohen , Omer Gurewitz

Detection of groups of interacting people is a very interesting and useful task in many modern technologies, with application fields spanning from video-surveillance to social robotics. In this paper we first furnish a rigorous definition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-08 Francesco Setti , Chris Russell , Chiara Bassetti , Marco Cristani

Combinatorial interaction testing (CIT) is a useful testing technique to address the interaction of input parameters in software systems. In many applications, the technique has been used as a systematic sampling technique to sample the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Bestoun S. Ahmed , Angelo Gargantini , Kamal Z. Zamli , Cemal Yilmaz , Miroslav Bures , Marek Szeles

Graph-based Anomaly Detection models have gained widespread adoption in recent years, identifying suspicious nodes by aggregating neighborhood information. However, most existing studies overlook the pervasive issues of missing and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Junpeng Wu , Pinheng Zong

Humans are excellent at perceiving illusory outlines. We are readily able to complete contours, shapes, scenes, and even unseen objects when provided with images that contain broken fragments of a connected appearance. In vision science,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Morteza Rezanejad , Sidharth Gupta , Chandra Gummaluru , Ryan Marten , John Wilder , Michael Gruninger , Dirk B. Walther

We consider a zero-error probabilistic group testing problem where individuals are defective independently but not with identical probabilities. We propose a greedy set formation method to build sets of individuals to be tested together. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Mustafa Doger , Sennur Ulukus

The basic goal of threshold group testing is to identify up to $d$ defective items among a population of $n$ items, where $d$ is usually much smaller than $n$. The outcome of a test on a subset of items is positive if the subset has at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Thach V. Bui , Mahdi Cheraghchi , Isao Echizen

In many real world problems, features do not act alone but in combination with each other. For example, in genomics, diseases might not be caused by any single mutation but require the presence of multiple mutations. Prior work on feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Fergus Imrie , Alexander Norcliffe , Pietro Lio , Mihaela van der Schaar

Semiquantitative group testing (SQGT) is a pooling method in which the test outcomes represent bounded intervals for the number of defectives. Alternatively, it may be viewed as an adder channel with quantized outputs. SQGT represents a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Mahdi Cheraghchi , Ryan Gabrys , Olgica Milenkovic

We formalize a problem we call combinatorial pair testing (CPT), which has applications to the identification of uncooperative or unproductive participants in pair programming, massively distributed computing, and crowdsourcing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-05-02 David Eppstein , Michael T. Goodrich , Daniel S. Hirschberg