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On the Complexity of Finding a Diverse and Representative Committee using a Monotone, Separable Positional Multiwinner Voting Rule

Computer Science and Game Theory 2022-11-28 v1 Artificial Intelligence Computational Complexity

Abstract

Fairness in multiwinner elections, a growing line of research in computational social choice, primarily concerns the use of constraints to ensure fairness. Recent work proposed a model to find a diverse \emph{and} representative committee and studied the model's computational aspects. However, the work gave complexity results under major assumptions on how the candidates and the voters are grouped. Here, we close this gap and classify the complexity of finding a diverse and representative committee using a monotone, separable positional multiwinner voting rule, conditioned \emph{only} on the assumption that P \neq NP.

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@article{arxiv.2211.13217,
  title  = {On the Complexity of Finding a Diverse and Representative Committee using a Monotone, Separable Positional Multiwinner Voting Rule},
  author = {Kunal Relia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.13217},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

8 pages (2-column format). This paper builds upon arXiv:2107.07356 such that the hardness results of the former hold without the need for the assumptions used in Corollary 2 of the latter.

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