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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 this paper, we study the problem of non-adaptive group testing, in which one seeks to identify which items are defective given a set of suitably-designed tests whose outcomes indicate whether or not at least one defective item was…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Lan V. Truong , Matthew Aldridge , Jonathan Scarlett

Consider a finite population of $N$ items, where item $i$ has a probability $p_i$ to be defective. The goal is to identify all items by means of group testing. This is the generalized group testing problem (hereafter GGTP). In the case of…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2020-02-28 Yaakov Malinovsky

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

Testability is the probability whether tests will detect a fault, given that a fault in the program exists. How efficiently the faults will be uncovered depends upon the testability of the software. Various researchers have proposed…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-08-16 Sujata Khatri , R. S. Chhillar , V. B. Singh

We propose a novel group testing method, termed semi-quantitative group testing, motivated by a class of problems arising in genome screening experiments. Semi-quantitative group testing (SQGT) is a (possibly) non-binary pooling scheme that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-28 Amin Emad , Olgica Milenkovic

Group testing can help maintain a widespread testing program using fewer resources amid a pandemic. In a group testing setup, we are given n samples, one per individual. Each individual is either infected or uninfected. These samples are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-19 Shu-Jie Cao , Ritesh Goenka , Chau-Wai Wong , Ajit Rajwade , Dror Baron

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

A popular technique for tolerating malicious faults in open distributed systems is to establish small groups of participants, each of which has a non-faulty majority. These groups are used as building blocks to design attack-resistant…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Mercy O. Jaiyeola , Kyle Patron , Jared Saia , Maxwell Young , Qian M. Zhou

Group testing techniques are widely used in resource-constrained settings, such as infectious-disease screening, blood safety, DNA library screening, and industrial inspection, where the efficient use of limited testing resources depends…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-29 Chi-Kuang Yeh , Weng Kee Wong , Julie Zhou

Estimating the prevalence of a disease is necessary for evaluating and mitigating risks of its transmission within or between populations. Estimates that consider how prevalence changes with time provide more information about these risks…

Applications · Statistics 2021-11-12 Braden Scherting , Alison Peel , Raina Plowright , Andrew Hoegh

Designing and analysis of test cases is a challenging tasks for tester roles especially those who are related to test the structure of program. Recently, Programmers are showing valuable trend towards the implementation of recursive modules…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-08-28 Muhammad Javed , Bashir Ahmad , Zaffar Abbas , Allah Nawaz , Muhammad Ali Abid , Ihsan Ullah

We consider the nonadaptive group testing with N items, of which $K = \Theta(N^\theta)$ are defective. We study a test design in which each item appears in nearly the same number of tests. For each item, we independently pick L tests…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Oliver Johnson , Matthew Aldridge , Jonathan Scarlett

We consider nonadaptive probabilistic group testing in the linear regime, where each of n items is defective independently with probability p in (0,1), and p is a constant independent of n. We show that testing each item individually is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Matthew Aldridge

In this paper, we consider the problem of noiseless non-adaptive group testing under the for-each recovery guarantee, also known as probabilistic group testing. In the case of $n$ items and $k$ defectives, we provide an algorithm attaining…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Eric Price , Jonathan Scarlett

Linear probes are a promising approach for monitoring AI systems for deceptive behaviour. Previous work has shown that a linear classifier trained on a contrastive instruction pair and a simple dataset can achieve good performance. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Vikram Natarajan , Devina Jain , Shivam Arora , Satvik Golechha , Joseph Bloom

We consider nonadaptive group testing with Bernoulli tests, where each item is placed in each test independently with some fixed probability. We give a tight threshold on the maximum number of tests required to find the defective set under…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-16 Matthew Aldridge

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

Group testing is a useful method that has broad applications in medicine, engineering, and even in airport security control. Consider a finite population of $N$ items, where item $i$ has a probability $p_i$ to be defective. The goal is to…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2017-04-17 Yaakov Malinovsky

The clustering technique has attracted a lot of attention as a promising strategy for parallel debugging in multi-fault scenarios, this heuristic approach (i.e., failure indexing or fault isolation) enables developers to perform multiple…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Yi Song , Xiaoyuan Xie , Quanming Liu , Xihao Zhang , Xi Wu