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The Quantitative Group Testing (QGT) is about learning a (hidden) subset $K$ of some large domain $N$ using a sequence of queries, where a result of a query provides information about the size of the intersection of the query with the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Dariusz R. Kowalski , Dominik Pajak

This paper considers the problem of Quantitative Group Testing (QGT). Consider a set of $N$ items among which $K$ items are defective. The QGT problem is to identify (all or a sufficiently large fraction of) the defective items, where the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Esmaeil Karimi , Fatemeh Kazemi , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Krishna R. Narayanan , Alex Sprintson

We present a neural network-based framework for solving the quantitative group testing (QGT) problem that achieves both high decoding accuracy and structural verifiability. In QGT, the objective is to identify a small subset of defective…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Shreyas Jayant Grampurohit , Satish Mulleti , Ajit Rajwade

This paper considers the problem of Quantitative Group Testing (QGT) where there are some defective items among a large population of $N$ items. We consider the scenario in which each item is defective with probability $K/N$, independently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Esmaeil Karimi , Fatemeh Kazemi , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Krishna R. Narayanan , Alex Sprintson

We study the problem of estimating the number of defective items in adaptive Group testing by using a minimum number of queries. We improve the existing algorithm and prove a lower bound that show that, for constant estimation, the number…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Nader H. Bshouty , Vivian E. Bshouty-Hurani , George Haddad , Thomas Hashem , Fadi Khoury , Omar Sharafy

In this paper, we study the problem of quantitative group testing (QGT) and analyze the performance of three models: the noiseless model, the additive Gaussian noise model, and the noisy Z-channel model. For each model, we analyze two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Tenghao Li , Neha Sangwan , Xiaxin Li , Arya Mazumdar

In this paper, we introduce a variation of the group testing problem capturing the idea that a positive test requires a combination of multiple ``types'' of item. Specifically, we assume that there are multiple disjoint \emph{semi-defective…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Thach V. Bui , Jonathan Scarlett

Given a random Bernoulli matrix $ A\in \{0,1\}^{m\times n} $, an integer $ 0< k < n $ and the vector $ y:=Ax $, where $ x \in \{0,1\}^n $ is of Hamming weight $ k $, the objective in the {\em Quantitative Group Testing} (QGT) problem is to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Uriel Feige , Amir Lellouche

In the classical non-adaptive group testing setup, pools of items are tested together, and the main goal of a recovery algorithm is to identify the "complete defective set" given the outcomes of different group tests. In contrast, the main…

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

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

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 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 this paper, combinatorial quantitative group testing (QGT) with noisy measurements is studied. The goal of QGT is to detect defective items from a data set of size $n$ with counting measurements, each of which counts the number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Yun-Han Li , I-Hsiang Wang

Offline reinforcement learning enables policy learning from pre-collected datasets without environment interaction, but existing Decision Transformer (DT) architectures struggle with long-horizon credit assignment and complex state-action…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Abraham Itzhak Weinberg

\emph{Group Testing} (GT) addresses the problem of identifying a small subset of defective items from a large population, by grouping items into as few test pools as possible. In \emph{Adaptive GT} (AGT), outcomes of previous tests can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Alejandro Cohen , Asaf Cohen , Omer Gurewitz

We derive an information-theoretic lower bound for sample complexity in sparse recovery problems where inputs can be chosen sequentially and adaptively. This lower bound is in terms of a simple mutual information expression and unifies many…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-30 Cem Aksoylar , Venkatesh Saligrama

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

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

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

In this brief paper, we present a naive aggregation algorithm for a typical learning problem with expert advice setting, in which the task of improving generalization, i.e., model validation, is embedded in the learning process as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Getachew K Befekadu
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