Phase transitions in group testing

J Scarlett, V Cevher - Proceedings of the twenty-seventh annual ACM-SIAM …, 2016 - SIAM
The group testing problem consists of determining a sparse subset of a set of items that are
“defective” based on a set of possibly noisy tests, and arises in areas such as medical …

Noisy adaptive group testing: Bounds and algorithms

J Scarlett - IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Noisy non-adaptive group testing: A (near-) definite defectives approach

J Scarlett, O Johnson - IEEE Transactions on Information …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

A fast binary splitting approach to non-adaptive group testing

E Price, J Scarlett - arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.10268, 2020 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we consider the problem of noiseless non-adaptive group testing under the for-
each recovery guarantee, also known as probabilistic group testing. In the case of $ n …

Sublinear-Time Non-Adaptive Group Testing With O(k log n) Tests via Bit-Mixing Coding

S Bondorf, B Chen, J Scarlett, H Yu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The group testing problem consists of determining a small set of defective items from a
larger set of items based on tests on groups of items, and is relevant in applications such as …

Contention resolution with log-logstar channel accesses

MA Bender, T Kopelowitz, S Pettie… - Proceedings of the forty …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
For decades, randomized exponential backoff has provided a critical algorithmic building
block in situations where multiple devices seek access to a shared resource. Surprisingly …

Near-optimal noisy group testing via separate decoding of items

J Scarlett, V Cevher - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

How to scale exponential backoff: Constant throughput, polylog access attempts, and robustness

MA Bender, JT Fineman, S Gilbert, M Young - Proceedings of the Twenty …, 2016 - SIAM
Randomized exponential backoff is a widely deployed technique for coordinating access to
a shared resource. A good backoff protocol should, arguably, satisfy three natural …

Contention resolution without collision detection

MA Bender, T Kopelowitz, W Kuszmaul… - Proceedings of the 52nd …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
This paper focuses on the contention resolution problem on a shared communication
channel that does not support collision detection. A shared communication channel is a …

Asynchronous shared channel

G De Marco, G Stachowiak - Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
In this work we address the question whether a simple shared channel could be efficiently
utilized, that is, with a constant throughput and linear packet latency. A shared channel (also …