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Paper IDC.10.3
Paper Title Strongly Explicit and Efficiently Decodable Probabilistic Group Testing
Authors Huseyin Atahan Inan, Ayfer Ozgur, Stanford University, United States
Session C.10: Topics in Coding Theory
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Track Coding for Communications
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Abstract We consider the non-adaptive probabilistic group testing problem where $d$ random defective items are identified with high probability from a population of $N$ items by applying $t$ binary group tests. There has been recent progress towards developing explicit and efficiently decodable group testing schemes with $t = \Theta(d \log N)$ tests, which is known to be order-optimal for this setting when $d = O(N^{1 - \alpha})$ for some constant $\alpha > 0$. In particular, a recent work develops an explicit scheme while another one develops an efficiently decodable scheme for this setting, both with the order-optimal $t = \Theta(d \log N)$ tests. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is no order-optimal scheme that is both explicit and efficiently decodable. In this paper, we close this gap by introducing the first (strongly) explicit and efficiently decodable construction that is order-optimal for the non-adaptive probabilistic group testing problem.

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