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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

Fast testing can help mitigate the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Despite their accuracy for single sample analysis, infectious diseases diagnostic tools, like RT-PCR, require substantial resources to test large populations.…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-04-08 Junan Zhu , Kristina Rivera , Dror Baron

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

In this work, we consider the sparsity-constrained community-based group testing problem, where the population follows a community structure. In particular, the community consists of $F$ families, each with $M$ members. A number $k_f$ out…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Sarthak Jain , Martina Cardone , Soheil Mohajer

This paper considers the problem of subspace clustering under noise. Specifically, we study the behavior of Sparse Subspace Clustering (SSC) when either adversarial or random noise is added to the unlabelled input data points, which are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-01-23 Yu-Xiang Wang , Huan Xu

The problem of distributed matrix-vector product is considered, where the server distributes the task of the computation among $n$ worker nodes, out of which $L$ are compromised (but non-colluding) and may return incorrect results.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Sarthak Jain , Martina Cardone , Soheil Mohajer

We consider some computationally efficient and provably correct algorithms with near-optimal sample-complexity for the problem of noisy non-adaptive group testing. Group testing involves grouping arbitrary subsets of items into pools. Each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Chun Lam Chan , Sidharth Jaggi , Venkatesh Saligrama , Samar Agnihotri

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 2023-09-19 Jonathan Scarlett , Oliver Johnson

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

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

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

In this paper, we consider the group testing problem with adaptive test designs and noisy outcomes. We propose a computationally efficient four-stage procedure with components including random binning, identification of bins containing…

Computation · Statistics 2019-11-11 Jonathan Scarlett

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

A key step in separating signal from noise in time series by means of singular spectrum analysis (SSA) is grouping. We present a multiple testing method for the grouping step in SSA. As separability criterion, we utilize the weighted…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-26 Maryam Movahedifar , Friederike Preusse , Anna Vesely , Thorsten Dickhaus

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

We propose a compressed sensing-based testing approach with a practical measurement design and a tuning-free and noise-robust algorithm for detecting infected persons. Compressed sensing results can be used to provably detect a small number…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Hendrik Bernd Petersen , Bubacarr Bah , Peter Jung

Noisy label learning aims to train deep neural networks using a large amount of samples with noisy labels, whose main challenge comes from how to deal with the inaccurate supervision caused by wrong labels. Existing works either take the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Sihan Bai

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

We consider two closely related problems: anomaly detection in sensor networks and testing for infections in human populations. In both problems, we have $n$ nodes (sensors, humans), and each node exhibits an event of interest (anomaly,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Melih Bastopcu , Sennur Ulukus

Conformal Prediction (CP) quantifies network uncertainty by building a small prediction set with a pre-defined probability that the correct class is within this set. In this study we tackle the problem of CP calibration based on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Coby Penso , Jacob Goldberger

In this paper, we derive mutual information based upper and lower bounds on the number of nonadaptive group tests required to identify a given number of "non defective" items from a large population containing a small number of "defective"…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Abhay Sharma , Chandra R. Murthy