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成组测试中几乎析取矩阵的构造

Construction of Almost Disjunct Matrices for Group Testing

Arya Mazumdar

摘要:

在\emph{group testing}方案中,一组测试被设计成在大的项目集合(大小为$N$)中识别少量的$t$缺陷项目。在非自适应场景中,测试集必须一次性设计。在这种情况下,设计测试方案等同于构造\emph{disjunct matrix},这是一个$M \times N$矩阵,其中任何$t$列的支撑的并集不包含任何其他列的支撑。原则上,人们希望具有这样的矩阵,其具有最小可能数量的行(测试)PDMATHAMR。构造析取矩阵的主要方法之一依赖于\emph{constant weight error-correcting codes}及其\emph{minimum distance}。在本文中,我们考虑了一个宽松的定义称为\emph{almost disjunct matrix}的析取矩阵。该概念在文献中也以\emph{weakly separated design}的名称进行了研究。宽松的定义允许一个人拿出一组测试计划,其中接近一部分的所有可能的缺陷项目集是可识别的。我们的主要贡献是双重的。首先,我们超越了最小距离分析,并连接的\emph{average distance}的一个恒定的重量码的参数构造的几乎析取矩阵。我们的第二个贡献是显式构造几乎析取矩阵的基础上,我们的平均距离分析,有更少的行数比以前任何显式构造的析取矩阵。我们构造的参数可以变化以覆盖$t$和$N$的大范围关系。

英文摘要:

In a \emph{group testing} scheme, a set of tests is designed to identify a small number $t$ of defective items among a large set (of size $N$) of items. In the non-adaptive scenario the set of tests has to be designed in one-shot. In this setting, designing a testing scheme is equivalent to the construction of a \emph{disjunct matrix}, an $M \times N$ matrix where the union of supports of any $t$ columns does not contain the support of any other column. In principle, one wants to have such a matrix with minimum possible number $M$ of rows (tests). One of the main ways of constructing disjunct matrices relies on \emph{constant weight error-correcting codes} and their \emph{minimum distance}. In this paper, we consider a relaxed definition of a disjunct matrix known as \emph{almost disjunct matrix}. This concept is also studied under the name of \emph{weakly separated design} in the literature. The relaxed definition allows one to come up with group testing schemes where a close-to-one fraction of all possible sets of defective items are identifiable. Our main contribution is twofold. First, we go beyond the minimum distance analysis and connect the \emph{average distance} of a constant weight code to the parameters of an almost disjunct matrix constructed from it. Our second contribution is to explicitly construct almost disjunct matrices based on our average distance analysis, that have much smaller number of rows than any previous explicit construction of disjunct matrices. The parameters of our construction can be varied to cover a large range of relations for $t$ and $N$.

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