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House Allocations concern with matchings involving one-sided preferences, where houses serve as a proxy encoding valuable indivisible resources (e.g. organs, course seats, subsidized public housing units) to be allocated among the agents.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Hadi Hosseini , Sanjukta Roy , Aditi Sethia

We consider the problem of fair allocation of indivisible chores under additive valuations. We assume that the chores are divided into two types and under this scenario, we present several results. Our first result is a new characterization…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Haris Aziz , Jeremy Lindsay , Angus Ritossa , Mashbat Suzuki

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

We study the problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods among a set of agents. Our focus is on the existence of allocations that give each agent their maximin fair share--the value they are guaranteed if they divide the goods into as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Sirin Botan , Angus Ritossa , Mashbat Suzuki , Toby Walsh

The existence of EFX allocations is one of the most significant open questions in fair division. Recent work by Christodolou, Fiat, Koutsoupias, and Sgouritsa ("Fair allocation in graphs", EC 2023) establishes the existence of EFX…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Umang Bhaskar , Yeshwant Pandit

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 ex-post fairness in the object allocation problem where objects are valuable and commonly owned. A matching is fair from individual perspective if it has only inevitable envy towards agents who received most preferred objects --…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Aleksei Y. Kondratev , Alexander S. Nesterov

We study a fair resource scheduling problem, where a set of interval jobs are to be allocated to heterogeneous machines controlled by agents. Each job is associated with release time, deadline, and processing time such that it can be…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Bo Li , Minming Li , Ruilong Zhang

We study the problem of finding approximate envy-free allocations up to any $k$ goods ($\alpha$-EFkX), when agents have additive values over goods in a bundle. As our main result, we show that for any $k>2$, $\frac{k+1}{k+2}$-EFkX…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Aris Filos-Ratsikas , Georgios Kalantzis , Fangxiao Wang

In this article we propose a probabilistic framework in order to study the fair division of a divisible good, e.g., a cake, between n players. Our framework follows the same idea than the ''Full independence model'' used in the study of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Guillaume Chèze

In fair division of indivisible goods, using sequences of sincere choices (or picking sequences) is a natural way to allocate the objects. The idea is the following: at each stage, a designated agent picks one object among those that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-07 Sylvain Bouveret , Michel Lemaître

We study a discrete fair division problem where $n$ agents have additive valuation functions over a set of $m$ goods. We focus on the well-known $\alpha$-EFX fairness criterion, according to which the envy of an agent for another agent is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Aris Filos-Ratsikas , Georgios Kalantzis , Alexandros A. Voudouris

We explore solutions for fairly allocating indivisible items among agents assigned weights representing their entitlements. Our fairness goal is weighted-envy-freeness (WEF), where each agent deems their allocated portion relative to their…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Noga Klein Elmalem , Rica Gonen , Erel Segal-Halevi

We study the problem of fairly and efficiently allocating a set of items among strategic agents with additive valuations, where items are either all indivisible or all divisible. When items are goods, numerous positive and negative results…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Bo Li , Biaoshuai Tao , Fangxiao Wang , Xiaowei Wu , Mingwei Yang , Shengwei Zhou

We study envy-free mechanisms for scheduling tasks on unrelated machines (agents) that approximately minimize the makespan. For indivisible tasks, we put forward an envy-free poly-time mechanism that approximates the minimal makespan to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2009-09-08 Edith Cohen , Michal Feldman , Amos Fiat , Haim Kaplan , Svetlana Olonetsky

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

This paper considers a novel variant of the online fair division problem involving multiple agents in which a learner sequentially observes an indivisible item that has to be irrevocably allocated to one of the agents while satisfying a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Arun Verma , Indrajit Saha , Makoto Yokoo , Bryan Kian Hsiang Low

We analyze the run-time complexity of computing allocations that are both fair and maximize the utilitarian social welfare, defined as the sum of agents' utilities. We focus on two tractable fairness concepts: envy-freeness up to one item…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Haris Aziz , Xin Huang , Nicholas Mattei , Erel Segal-Halevi

We explore solutions for fairly allocating indivisible items among agents assigned weights representing their entitlements. Our fairness goal is weighted-envy-freeness (WEF), where each agent deems their allocated portion relative to their…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Noga Klein Elmalem , Haris Aziz , Rica Gonen , Xin Huang , Kei Kimura , Indrajit Saha , Erel Segal-Halevi , Zhaohong Sun , Mashbat Suzuki , Makoto Yokoo

We study the existence of fair distributions when we have more guests than pieces to allocate, focusing on envy-free distributions among those who receive a piece. The conditions on the demand from the guests can be weakened from those of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Pablo Soberón
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