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Online Fair Revenue Maximizing Cake Division with Non-Contiguous Pieces in Adversarial Bandits

Machine Learning 2021-11-30 v1 Computer Science and Game Theory

Abstract

The classic cake-cutting problem provides a model for addressing the fair and efficient allocation of a divisible, heterogeneous resource among agents with distinct preferences. Focusing on a standard formulation of cake cutting, in which each agent must receive a contiguous piece of the cake in an offline setting, this work instead focuses on online allocating non-contiguous pieces of cake among agents and establishes algorithmic results for fairness measures. In this regard, we made use of classic adversarial multi-armed bandits to achieve sub-linear Fairness and Revenue Regret at the same time. Adversarial bandits are powerful tools to model the adversarial reinforcement learning environments, that provide strong upper-bounds for regret of learning with just observing one action's reward in each step by applying smart trade-off between exploration and exploitation. This work studies the power of the famous EXP_3 algorithm that is based on exponential wight{-}importance updating probability distribution through time horizon.

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@article{arxiv.2111.14387,
  title  = {Online Fair Revenue Maximizing Cake Division with Non-Contiguous Pieces in Adversarial Bandits},
  author = {Mohammad Ghodsi and Amirmahdi Mirfakhar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.14387},
  year   = {2021}
}