IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Online ISSN : 1745-1337
Print ISSN : 0916-8508
Special Section on Information Theory and Its Applications
Bitwise MAP Estimation for Group Testing Based on Holographic Transformation
Tadashi WADAYAMATaisuke IZUMIKazushi MIMURA
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2016 Volume E99.A Issue 12 Pages 2147-2154

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The main contribution of this paper is a non-trivial expression, that is called dual expression, of the posterior values for non-adaptive group testing problems. The dual expression is useful for exact bitwise MAP estimation. We assume a simplest non-adaptive group testing scenario including N-objects with binary status and M-tests. If a group contains one or more positive object, the test result for the group is assumed to be one; otherwise, the test result becomes zero. Our inference problem is to evaluate the posterior probabilities of the objects from the observation of M-test results and the prior probabilities for objects. The derivation of the dual expression of posterior values can be naturally described based on a holographic transformation to the normal factor graph (NFG) representing the inference problem. In order to handle OR constraints in the NFG, we introduce a novel holographic transformation that converts an OR function to a function similar to an EQUAL function.

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