# Adaptive Group Testing Algorithms to Estimate the Number of Defectives

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.00615 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1712.00615/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 2 Dec 2017.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [On Detecting Some Defective Items in Group Testing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.04822/) (2023)

## Abstract (arXiv)

We study the problem of estimating the number of defective items in adaptive Group testing by using a minimum number of queries. We improve the existing algorithm and prove a lower bound that show that, for constant estimation, the number of tests in our algorithm is optimal.