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Our work studies the fair allocation of indivisible items to a set of agents, and falls within the scope of establishing improved approximation guarantees. It is well known by now that the classic solution concepts in fair division, such as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Evangelos Markakis , Christodoulos Santorinaios

We study the problem of fairly allocating a set of $m$ indivisible goods to a set of $n$ agents. Envy-freeness up to any good (EFX) criteria -- which requires that no agent prefers the bundle of another agent after removal of any single…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Hannaneh Akrami , Rojin Rezvan , Masoud Seddighin

New fairness notions aligned with the merit principle are proposed for designing exchange rules. We show that for an obviously strategy-proof, efficient and individually rational rule, (i) an agent receives her favorite object when others…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-10-29 Peng Liu , Huaxia Zeng

We study the problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods among agents which are equipped with {\em leveled} valuation functions. Such preferences, that have been studied before in economics and fair division literature, capture a simple…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-17 George Christodoulou , Vasilis Christoforidis

We study the classical rent division problem, where $n$ agents must allocate $n$ indivisible rooms and split a fixed total rent $R$. The goal is to compute an envy-free (EF) allocation, where no agent prefers another agent's room and rent…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Rohith Reddy Gangam , Shayan Taherijam , Vijay V. Vazirani

We study the computational complexity of fairly allocating a set of indivisible items under externalities. In this recently-proposed setting, in addition to the utility the agent gets from their bundle, they also receive utility from items…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Argyrios Deligkas , Eduard Eiben , Viktoriia Korchemna , Šimon Schierreich

In classic fair division problems such as cake cutting and rent division, envy-freeness requires that each individual (weakly) prefer his allocation to anyone else's. On a conceptual level, we argue that envy-freeness also provides a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Maria-Florina Balcan , Travis Dick , Ritesh Noothigattu , Ariel D. Procaccia

A principal wishes to transact business with a multidimensional distribution of agents whose preferences are known only in the aggregate. Assuming a twist (= generalized Spence-Mirrlees single-crossing) hypothesis and that agents can choose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-12-17 Alessio Figalli , Young-Heon Kim , Robert J. McCann

In this paper, a branch and bound algorithm that incorporates the decision maker's preference information is proposed for multiobjective optimization. In the proposed algorithm, a new discarding test is designed to check whether a box…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-28 Weitian Wu , Xinmin Yang

We study a fair allocation problem of indivisible items under additive externalities in which each agent also receives values from items that are assigned to other agents. We propose several new fairness concepts. We extend the well-studied…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Haris Aziz , Warut Suksompong , Zhaohong Sun , Toby Walsh

We study the fair division of divisible bad resources with strategic agents who can manipulate their private information to get a better allocation. Within certain constraints, we are particularly interested in whether truthful envy-free…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Mohammad Azharuddin Sanpui

Incorporating fairness criteria in optimization problems comes at a certain cost, which is measured by the so-called price of fairness. Here we consider the allocation of indivisible goods. For envy-freeness as fairness criterion it is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-24 Sascha Kurz

We consider the complexity of finding envy-free allocations for the class of graphical valuations. Graphical valuations were introduced by Christodoulou et. al.(2023) as a structured class of valuations that admit allocations that are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Neeldhara Misra , Aditi Sethia

We study the problem of mechanism design for allocating a set of indivisible items among agents with private preferences on items. We are interested in such a mechanism that is strategyproof (where agents' best strategy is to report their…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Ankang Sun , Bo Chen

Allocating $m$ indivisible goods among $n$ agents is a fundamental task in fair division. Recent work of Garg and Psomas [AAMAS 2025] initiated the study of parallel algorithms for envy-free up to one good (EF1) allocations, giving NC…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Kishen N Gowda , D Ellis Hershkowitz , Richard Z Huang , Gregory Kehne

We study the fair allocation of indivisible goods among agents with identical, additive valuations but individual budget constraints. Here, the indivisible goods--each with a specific size and value--need to be allocated such that the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Siddharth Barman , Arindam Khan , Sudarshan Shyam , K. V. N. Sreenivas

We consider the problem of allocating $m$ indivisible chores to $n$ agents with additive disvaluation (cost) functions. It is easy to show that there are picking sequences that give every agent (that uses the greedy picking strategy) a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Uriel Feige , Xin Huang

We consider a practically motivated variant of the canonical online fair allocation problem: a decision-maker has a budget of perishable resources to allocate over a fixed number of rounds. Each round sees a random number of arrivals, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Siddhartha Banerjee , Chamsi Hssaine , Sean R. Sinclair

The classical house allocation problem involves assigning $n$ houses (or items) to $n$ agents according to their preferences. A key criterion in such problems is satisfying some fairness constraints such as envy-freeness. We consider a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Hadi Hosseini , Justin Payan , Rik Sengupta , Rohit Vaish , Vignesh Viswanathan

Explore-and-exploit tradeoffs play a key role in recommendation systems (RSs), aiming at serving users better by learning from previous interactions. Despite their commercial success, the societal effects of explore-and-exploit mechanisms…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Omer Ben-Porat , Yotam Gafni , Or Markovetzki