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We give the first $O(1)$-approximation for the weighted Nash Social Welfare problem with additive valuations. The approximation ratio we obtain is $e^{1/e} + \epsilon \approx 1.445 + \epsilon$, which matches the best known approximation…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Yuda Feng , Shi Li

We study the problem of maximizing Nash welfare (MNW) while allocating indivisible goods to asymmetric agents. The Nash welfare of an allocation is the weighted geometric mean of agents' utilities, and the allocation with maximum Nash…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Jugal Garg , Edin Husić , Aniket Murhekar , László Végh

We develop polynomial-time algorithms for the fair and efficient allocation of indivisible goods among $n$ agents that have subadditive valuations over the goods. We first consider the Nash social welfare as our objective and design a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Siddharth Barman , Umang Bhaskar , Anand Krishna , Ranjani G. Sundaram

We study the problem of allocating a set of indivisible items to agents with supermodular utilities to maximize the Nash social welfare. We show that the problem is NP-hard for any approximation factor.

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Alon Bebchuk

We consider the problem of locating a facility to serve a set of agents located along a line. The Nash welfare objective function, defined as the product of the agents' utilities, is known to provide a compromise between fairness and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Alexander Lam , Haris Aziz , Toby Walsh

We study fair allocation of indivisible public goods subject to cardinality (budget) constraints. In this model, we have n agents and m available public goods, and we want to select $k \leq m$ goods in a fair and efficient manner. We first…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Jugal Garg , Pooja Kulkarni , Aniket Murhekar

The Nash social welfare (NSW) is a well-known social welfare measurement that balances individual utilities and the overall efficiency. In the context of fair allocation of indivisible goods, it has been shown by Caragiannis et al. (EC 2016…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Xiaowei Wu , Bo Li , Jiarui Gan

We study fair multi-objective reinforcement learning in which an agent must learn a policy that simultaneously achieves high reward on multiple dimensions of a vector-valued reward. Motivated by the fair resource allocation literature, we…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Zimeng Fan , Nianli Peng , Muhang Tian , Brandon Fain

We study the problem of allocating indivisible goods among $n$ agents with the objective of maximizing Nash social welfare (NSW). This welfare function is defined as the geometric mean of the agents' valuations and, hence, it strikes a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Siddharth Barman , Anand Krishna , Pooja Kulkarni , Shivika Narang

We consider the task of assigning indivisible goods to a set of agents in a fair manner. Our notion of fairness is Nash social welfare, i.e., the goal is to maximize the geometric mean of the utilities of the agents. Each good comes in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Bhaskar Chaudhury , Yun Kuen Cheung , Jugal Garg , Naveen Garg , Martin Hoefer , Kurt Mehlhorn

We study fair division of indivisible goods in a single-parameter environment. In particular, we develop truthful social welfare maximizing mechanisms for fairly allocating indivisible goods. Our fairness guarantees are in terms of solution…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Siddharth Barman , Ganesh Ghalme , Shweta Jain , Pooja Kulkarni , Shivika Narang

We design an expected polynomial-time, truthful-in-expectation, (1-1/e)-approximation mechanism for welfare maximization in a fundamental class of combinatorial auctions. Our results apply to bidders with valuations that are m matroid rank…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-04-19 Shaddin Dughmi , Tim Roughgarden , Qiqi Yan

We establish a compatibility between fairness and efficiency, captured via Nash Social Welfare (NSW), under the broad class of subadditive valuations. We prove that, for subadditive valuations, there always exists a partial allocation that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Siddharth Barman , Mashbat Suzuki

We study the problem of allocating divisible resources among $n$ agents, hopefully in a fair and efficient manner. With the presence of strategic agents, additional incentive guarantees are also necessary, and the problem of designing fair…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Xiaohui Bei , Biaoshuai Tao , Jiajun Wu , Mingwei Yang

We consider the classic problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods among agents with additive valuation functions and explore the connection between two prominent fairness notions: maximum Nash welfare (MNW) and envy-freeness up to any…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Georgios Amanatidis , Georgios Birmpas , Aris Filos-Ratsikas , Alexandros Hollender , Alexandros A. Voudouris

Reinforcement learning has been shown to be an effective strategy for automatically training policies for challenging control problems. Focusing on non-cooperative multi-agent systems, we propose a novel reinforcement learning framework for…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Kishor Jothimurugan , Suguman Bansal , Osbert Bastani , Rajeev Alur

We study the problem of allocating a set of indivisible items to agents with additive utilities to maximize the Nash social welfare. Cole and Gkatzelis recently proved that this problem admits a constant factor approximation. We complement…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-07-07 Euiwoong Lee

We consider the problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods to agents with weights representing their entitlements. A natural rule in this setting is the maximum weighted Nash welfare (MWNW) rule, which selects an allocation maximizing…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-04-26 Warut Suksompong , Nicholas Teh

We study the problem of allocating indivisible goods among agents that have an identical subadditive valuation over the goods. The extent of fairness and efficiency of allocations is measured by the generalized means of the values that the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Siddharth Barman , Ranjani G. Sundaram

The maximization of Nash welfare, which equals the geometric mean of agents' utilities, is widely studied because it balances efficiency and fairness in resource allocation problems. Banerjee, Gkatzelis, Gorokh, and Jin (2022) recently…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Zhiyi Huang , Minming Li , Xinkai Shu , Tianze Wei