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The classical cake cutting problem studies how to find fair allocations of a heterogeneous and divisible resource among multiple agents. Two of the most commonly studied fairness concepts in cake cutting are proportionality and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Xiaohui Bei , Xiaoming Sun , Hao Wu , Jialin Zhang , Zhijie Zhang , Wei Zi

We study the classic problem of \emph{fairly} dividing a heterogeneous and divisible resource -- modeled as a line segment $[0,1]$ and typically called as a \emph{cake} -- among $n$ agents. This work considers an interesting variant of the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Ganesh Ghalme , Xin Huang , Yuka Machino , Nidhi Rathi

We introduce a graphical framework for fair division in cake cutting, where comparisons between agents are limited by an underlying network structure. We generalize the classical fairness notions of envy-freeness and proportionality to this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-10 Xiaohui Bei , Youming Qiao , Shengyu Zhang

We study the classic problem of fairly dividing a heterogeneous and divisible resource -- represented by a cake, $[0,1]$ -- among $n$ agents. This work considers an interesting variant of the problem where agents are embedded on a graph.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Ganesh Ghalme , Xin Huang , Nidhi Rathi

We study the problem of fairly allocating a divisible resource in the form of a graph, also known as graphical cake cutting. Unlike for the canonical interval cake, a connected envy-free allocation is not guaranteed to exist for a graphical…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Sheung Man Yuen , Warut Suksompong

The problem of fair division known as "cake cutting" has been the focus of multiple papers spanning several decades. The most prominent problem in this line of work has been to bound the query complexity of computing an envy-free outcome in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Ioannis Caragiannis , Vasilis Gkatzelis , Alexandros Psomas , Daniel Schoepflin

Cake cutting is a classic model for studying fair division of a heterogeneous, divisible resource among agents with individual preferences. Addressing cake division under a typical requirement that each agent must receive a connected piece…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Siddharth Barman , Pooja Kulkarni

Classic cake-cutting algorithms enable people with different preferences to divide among them a heterogeneous resource (``cake''), such that the resulting division is fair according to each agent's individual preferences. However, these…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Erel Segal-Halevi , Shmuel Nitzan , Avinatan Hassidim , Yonatan Aumann

We initiate the study of multi-layered cake cutting with the goal of fairly allocating multiple divisible resources (layers of a cake) among a set of agents. The key requirement is that each agent can only utilize a single resource at each…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Hadi Hosseini , Ayumi Igarashi , Andrew Searns

The classic cake-cutting problem provides a model for addressing fair and efficient allocation of a divisible, heterogeneous resource (metaphorically, the cake) among agents with distinct preferences. Focusing on a standard formulation of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Eshwar Ram Arunachaleswaran , Siddharth Barman , Rachitesh Kumar , Nidhi Rathi

We consider the classical cake-cutting problem where we wish to fairly divide a heterogeneous resource, often modeled as a cake, among interested agents. Work on the subject typically assumes that the cake is represented by an interval. In…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Xiaohui Bei , Warut Suksompong

We consider the classic cake-cutting problem of producing fair allocations for $n$ agents, in the Robertson-Webb query model. In this model, it is known that: (i) proportional allocations can be computed using $O(n \log n)$ queries, and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Arnav Mehra , Alexandros Psomas

Finding an envy-free allocation of indivisible resources to agents is a central task in many multiagent systems. Often, non-trivial envy-free allocations do not exist, and, when they do, finding them can be computationally hard. Classical…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Robert Bredereck , Andrzej Kaczmarczyk , Rolf Niedermeier

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

We prove an $\Omega(n^2)$ lower bound on the query complexity of local proportionality in the Robertson-Webb cake-cutting model. Local proportionality requires that each agent prefer their allocation to the average of their neighbors'…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Jamie Tucker-Foltz

In this article we study a cake cutting problem. More precisely, we study symmetric fair division algorithms, that is to say we study algorithms where the order of the players do not influence the value obtained by each player. In the first…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Guillaume Chèze

We study the fair division problem on divisible heterogeneous resources (the cake cutting problem) with strategic agents, where each agent can manipulate his/her private valuation in order to receive a better allocation. A…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Xiaolin Bu , Jiaxin Song , Biaoshuai Tao

We consider the classic problem of envy-free division of a heterogeneous good ("cake") among several agents. It is known that, when the allotted pieces must be connected, the problem cannot be solved by a finite algorithm for 3 or more…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Erel Segal-Halevi , Avinatan Hassidim , Yonatan Aumann

We study the fair allocation of a cake, which serves as a metaphor for a divisible resource, under the requirement that each agent should receive a contiguous piece of the cake. While it is known that no finite envy-free algorithm exists in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Paul W. Goldberg , Alexandros Hollender , Warut Suksompong

In the envy-free cake-cutting problem we are given a resource, usually called a cake and represented as the $[0,1]$ interval, and a set of $n$ agents with heterogeneous preferences over pieces of the cake. The goal is to divide the cake…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Alexandros Hollender , Aviad Rubinstein
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