Fundamental Limits of Non-Adaptive Group Testing with Markovian Correlation

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Autori principali: Ravi, Aditya Narayan, Shomorony, Ilan
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author Ravi, Aditya Narayan
Shomorony, Ilan
author_facet Ravi, Aditya Narayan
Shomorony, Ilan
contents We study a correlated group testing model where items are infected according to a Markov chain, which creates bursty binfection patterns. Focusing on a very sparse infections regime, we propose a non adaptive testing strategy with an efficient decoding scheme that is nearly optimal. Specifically, it achieves asymptotically vanishing error with a number of tests that is within a $1/\ln(2) \approx 1.44$ multiplicative factor of the fundamental entropy bound a result that parallels the independent group testing setting. We show that the number of tests reduces with an increase in the expected burst length of infected items, quantifying the advantage of exploiting correlation in test design.
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spellingShingle Fundamental Limits of Non-Adaptive Group Testing with Markovian Correlation
Ravi, Aditya Narayan
Shomorony, Ilan
Information Theory
We study a correlated group testing model where items are infected according to a Markov chain, which creates bursty binfection patterns. Focusing on a very sparse infections regime, we propose a non adaptive testing strategy with an efficient decoding scheme that is nearly optimal. Specifically, it achieves asymptotically vanishing error with a number of tests that is within a $1/\ln(2) \approx 1.44$ multiplicative factor of the fundamental entropy bound a result that parallels the independent group testing setting. We show that the number of tests reduces with an increase in the expected burst length of infected items, quantifying the advantage of exploiting correlation in test design.
title Fundamental Limits of Non-Adaptive Group Testing with Markovian Correlation
topic Information Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12588