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We consider the well-studied cake cutting problem in which the goal is to identify a fair allocation based on a minimal number of queries from the agents. The problem has attracted considerable attention within various branches of computer…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-07 Haris Aziz , Simon Mackenzie

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 study the computational complexity of fair division of indivisible items in an enriched model: there is an underlying graph on the set of items. And we have to allocate the items (i.e., the vertices of the graph) to a set of agents in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Jayakrishnan Madathil

Mechanism design is addressed in the context of fair allocations of indivisible goods with monetary compensation. Motivated by a real-world social choice problem, mechanisms with verification are considered in a setting where (i) agents'…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-18 Gianluigi Greco , Francesco Scarcello

A major open question in fair allocation of indivisible items is whether there always exists an allocation of chores that is Pareto optimal (PO) and envy-free up to one item (EF1). We answer this question affirmatively for the natural class…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Soroush Ebadian , Dominik Peters , Nisarg Shah

The theory of two-sided matching has been extensively developed and applied to many real-life application domains. As the theory has been applied to increasingly diverse types of environments, researchers and practitioners have encountered…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Sung-Ho Cho , Kei Kimura , Kiki Liu , Kwei-guu Liu , Zhengjie Liu , Zhaohong Sun , Kentaro Yahiro , Makoto Yokoo

We study fair resource allocation under a connectedness constraint wherein a set of indivisible items are arranged on a path and only connected subsets of items may be allocated to the agents. An allocation is deemed fair if it satisfies…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Neeldhara Misra , Chinmay Sonar , P. R. Vaidyanathan , Rohit Vaish

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

In Fair AI literature, the practice of maliciously creating unfair models that nevertheless satisfy fairness constraints is known as "cherry-picking". A cherry-picking model is a model that makes mistakes on purpose, selecting bad…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Marco Favier , Toon Calders

We study the cake-cutting problem when agents have single-peaked preferences over the cake. We show that a recently proposed mechanism by Wang-Wu (2019) to obtain envy-free allocations can yield large welfare losses. Using a simplifying…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Bhavook Bhardwaj , Rajnish Kumar , Josue Ortega

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

In this paper, we consider the problem of fair division of indivisible goods when the allocation of goods impacts society. Specifically, we introduce a second valuation function for each agent, determining the social impact of allocating a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Michele Flammini , Gianluigi Greco , Giovanna Varricchio

We study the problem of fair and efficient allocation of a set of indivisible chores to agents with additive cost functions. We consider the popular fairness notion of envy-freeness up to one good (EF1) with the efficiency notion of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Jugal Garg , Aniket Murhekar , John Qin

We study the question of dividing a collection of indivisible goods amongst a set of agents. The main objective of research in the area is to achieve one of two goals: fairness or efficiency. On the fairness side, envy-freeness is the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Vishnu V. Narayan , Mashbat Suzuki , Adrian Vetta

We study the fair division of items to agents supposing that agents can form groups. We thus give natural generalizations of popular concepts such as envy-freeness and Pareto efficiency to groups of fixed sizes. Group envy-freeness requires…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Martin Aleksandrov , Toby Walsh

The theory of algorithmic fair allocation is within the center of multi-agent systems and economics in the last decade due to its industrial and social importance. At a high level, the problem is to assign a set of items that are either…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Haris Aziz , Bo Li , Herve Moulin , Xiaowei Wu

We study the problem of fairly assigning a set of discrete tasks (or chores) among a set of agents with additive valuations. Each chore is associated with a start and finish time, and each agent can perform at most one chore at any given…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Sarfaraz Equbal , Rohit Gurjar , Yatharth Kumar , Swaprava Nath , Raghuvansh Saxena , Rohit Vaish

In many societal resource allocation domains, machine learning methods are increasingly used to either score or rank agents in order to decide which ones should receive either resources (e.g., homeless services) or scrutiny (e.g., child…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Andrew Estornell , Sanmay Das , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

We consider the problem of allocating $m$ indivisible chores among $n$ agents with possibly different weights, aiming for a solution that is both fair and efficient. Specifically, we focus on the classic fairness notion of proportionality…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Jugal Garg , Eklavya Sharma , Xiaowei Wu

We study the allocation of indivisible goods among groups of agents using well-known fairness notions such as envy-freeness and proportionality. While these notions cannot always be satisfied, we provide several bounds on the optimal…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Pasin Manurangsi , Warut Suksompong