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The use of group testing to locate all instances of disease in a large population of blood samples was first considered seventy years ago. Since then, several methods have been used to approximate the minimum expected number of tests. The…

Applications · Statistics 2015-03-24 Seth Zimmerman

The group testing problem consists of determining a small set of defective items from a larger set of items based on a number of tests, and is relevant in applications such as medical testing, communication protocols, pattern matching, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Jonathan Scarlett , Volkan Cevher

The problem of Group Testing is to identify defective items out of a set of objects by means of pool queries of the form "Does the pool contain at least a defective?". The aim is of course to perform detection with the fewest possible…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Mézard , M. Tarzia , C. Toninelli

In this paper, we propose a computer-oriented method of construction of optimal group sequential hypothesis tests with variable group sizes. In particular, for independent and identically distributed observations we obtain the form of…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-03-30 Andrey Novikov

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

In the classical combinatorial (adaptive) group testing problem, one is given two integers \(d\) and \(n\), where \(0\le d\le n\), and a population of \(n\) items, exactly \(d\) of which are known to be defective. The question is to devise…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-07-24 David Cariolaro , Zhaiming Shen , Yi Zhang

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

The rapid development of derandomization theory, which is a fundamental area in theoretical computer science, has recently led to many surprising applications outside its initial intention. We will review some recent such developments…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Mahdi Cheraghchi

We consider the quantitative group testing problem where the objective is to identify defective items in a given population based on results of tests performed on subsets of the population. Under the quantitative group testing model, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Chao Wang , Qing Zhao , Chen-Nee Chuah

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

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

Bayesian hypothesis testing and minimax hypothesis testing represent extreme instances of detection in which the prior probabilities of the hypotheses are either completely and precisely known, or are completely unknown. Group minimax, also…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-25 Kush R. Varshney , Lav R. Varshney

Minimum Bayes Risk (MBR) decoding optimizes output selection by maximizing the expected utility value of an underlying human distribution. While prior work has shown the effectiveness of MBR decoding through empirical evaluation, few…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Yuki Ichihara , Yuu Jinnai , Kaito Ariu , Tetsuro Morimura , Eiji Uchibe

The goal of combinatorial group testing is to efficiently identify up to $d$ defective items in a large population of $n$ items, where $d \ll n$. Defective items satisfy certain properties while the remaining items in the population do not.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Thach V. Bui , Minoru Kuribayashi , Mahdi Cheraghchi , Isao Echizen

In order to identify the infected individuals of a population, their samples are divided in equally sized groups called pools and a single laboratory test is applied to each pool. Individuals whose samples belong to pools that test negative…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-10-06 Inés Armendáriz , Pablo A. Ferrari , Daniel Fraiman , José M. Martínez , Silvina Ponce Dawson

Group testing is concerned with identifying $t$ defective items in a set of $m$ items, where each test reports whether a specific subset of items contains at least one defective. In non-adaptive group testing, the subsets to be tested are…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Benjamin Aram Berendsohn , László Kozma

The group testing problem asks for efficient pooling schemes and algorithms that allow to screen moderately large numbers of samples for rare infections. The goal is to accurately identify the infected samples while conducting the least…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-19 AminCoja-Oghlan , Max Hahn-Klimroth , Philipp Loick , Manuel Penschuck

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 (GT) is the art of identifying binary signals and the marketplace for exchanging new ideas for related fields such as unique-element counting, compressed sensing, traitor tracing, and geno-typing. A GT scheme can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Hsin-Po Wang , Venkatesan Guruswami

Group testing is an active area of current research and has important applications in medicine, biotechnology, genetics, and product testing. There have been recent advances in design and estimation, but the simple Dorfman procedure…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-10-07 Yaakov Malinovsky , Paul S. Albert