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The problem of allocating indivisible resources to agents arises in a wide range of domains, including treatment distribution and social support programs. An important goal in algorithm design for this problem is fairness, where the focus…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Niclas Boehmer , Luca Kreisel

We study the problem of fairly allocating either a set of indivisible goods or a set of mixed divisible and indivisible goods (i.e., mixed goods) to agents with additive utilities, taking the best-of-both-worlds perspective of guaranteeing…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Xiaolin Bu , Zihao Li , Shengxin Liu , Xinhang Lu , Biaoshuai Tao

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 explore the fair distribution of a set of $m$ indivisible chores among $n$ agents, where each agent's costs are evaluated using a monotone cost function. Our focus lies on two fairness criteria: envy-freeness up to any item (EFX) and a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Mahyar Afshinmehr , Matin Ansaripour , Alireza Danaei , Kurt Mehlhorn

We consider the problem of fair allocation of indivisible items with subsidies when agents have weighted entitlements. After highlighting several important differences from the unweighted case, we present several results concerning weighted…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Haris Aziz , Xin Huang , Kei Kimura , Indrajit Saha , Zhaohong Sun , Mashbat Suzuki , Makoto Yokoo

We study the problem of fairly and efficiently allocating indivisible chores among agents with additive disutility functions. We consider the widely-used envy-based fairness properties of EF1 and EFX, in conjunction with the efficiency…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Jugal Garg , Aniket Murhekar , John Qin

We study a fair division setting in which participants are to be fairly distributed among teams, where not only do the teams have preferences over the participants as in the canonical fair division setting, but the participants also have…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Ayumi Igarashi , Yasushi Kawase , Warut Suksompong , Hanna Sumita

We study the problem of fairly allocating a set of $m$ goods among $n$ agents in the asymptotic setting, where each item's value for each agent is drawn from an underlying joint distribution. Prior works have shown that if this distribution…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Jugal Garg , Vishnu V. Narayan , Yuang Eric Shen

We study the fair division of indivisible items. In the general model, the goal is to allocate $m$ indivisible items to $n$ agents while satisfying fairness criteria such as MMS, EF1, and EFX. We also study a recently-introduced graphical…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Kevin Hsu

We investigate the existence of fair and efficient allocations of indivisible chores to asymmetric agents who have unequal entitlements or weights. We consider the fairness notion of weighted envy-freeness up to one chore (wEF1) and the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Jugal Garg , Aniket Murhekar , John Qin

Envy-freeness and Pareto Efficiency are two major goals in welfare economics. The existence of an allocation that satisfies both conditions has been studied for a long time. Whether items are indivisible or divisible, it is impossible to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Richard Cole , Yixin Tao

We consider a one-sided matching problem where agents who are partitioned into disjoint classes and each class must receive fair treatment in a desired matching. This model, proposed by Benabbou et al. [2019], aims to address various…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Tomohiko Yokoyama , Ayumi Igarashi

We consider the problem of fairly allocating a set of indivisible goods to a set of strategic agents with additive valuation functions. We assume no monetary transfers and, therefore, a mechanism in our setting is an algorithm that takes as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Georgios Amanatidis , Georgios Birmpas , Federico Fusco , Philip Lazos , Stefano Leonardi , Rebecca Reiffenhäuser

Ensuring fairness while limiting costs, such as transportation or storage, is an important challenge in resource allocation, yet most work has focused on cost minimization without fairness or fairness without explicit cost considerations.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Eva Deltl

We study the envy-free house allocation problem when agents have uncertain preferences over items and consider several well-studied preference uncertainty models. The central problem that we focus on is computing an allocation that has the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Haris Aziz , Isaiah Iliffe , Bo Li , Angus Ritossa , Ankang Sun , Mashbat Suzuki

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

I provide a unified framework to establish the existence of a weak Pareto efficient, envy-free allocation in general settings: random allocations are probability measures on a compact metric space, and preferences of agents are represented…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-05-28 Anna Vakarova

We study the fair allocation of indivisible goods across groups of agents, where each agent fully enjoys all goods allocated to their group. We focus on groups of two (couples) and other groups of small size. For two couples, an EF1…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Paul Gölz , Hannane Yaghoubizade

We study best-of-both-worlds guarantees for the fair division of indivisible items among agents with subadditive valuations. Our main result establishes the existence of a random allocation that is simultaneously ex-ante…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Michal Feldman , Simon Mauras , Vishnu V. Narayan , Tomasz Ponitka

Envy-freeness up to any good (EFX) is a popular and important fairness property in the fair allocation of indivisible goods, of which its existence in general is still an open question. In this work, we investigate the problem of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Tzeh Yuan Neoh , Nicholas Teh