Exact Thresholds for Noisy Non-Adaptive Group Testing

FOS: Computer and information sciences Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM) Computer Science - Information Theory Information Theory (cs.IT) Probability (math.PR) 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering FOS: Mathematics Mathematics - Statistics Theory Statistics Theory (math.ST) Mathematics - Probability Computer Science - Discrete Mathematics
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2401.04884 Publication Date: 2025-01-01
ABSTRACT
SODA 2025<br/>In recent years, the mathematical limits and algorithmic bounds for probabilistic group testing have become increasingly well-understood, with exact asymptotic thresholds now being known in general scaling regimes for the noiseless setting. In the noisy setting where each test outcome is flipped with constant probability, there have been similar developments, but the overall understanding has lagged significantly behind the noiseless setting. In this paper, we substantially narrow this gap by deriving exact asymptotic thresholds for the noisy setting under two widely-studied random test designs: i.i.d. Bernoulli and near-constant tests-per-item. These thresholds are established by combining components of an existing information-theoretic threshold decoder with a novel analysis of maximum-likelihood decoding (upper bounds), and deriving a novel set of impossibility results by analyzing certain failure events for optimal maximum-likelihood decoding (lower bounds).<br/>
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