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We study the problem of allocating a set of indivisible chores to three agents, among whom two have additive cost functions, in a fair manner. Two fairness notions under consideration are envy-freeness up to any chore (EFX) and a relaxed…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Lang Yin , Ruta Mehta

We consider allocating indivisible goods with provable fairness guarantees that are satisfied regardless of which bundle of items each agent receives. Symmetrical allocations of this type are known to exist for divisible resources, such as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Connor Johnston , Aleksandr M. Kazachkov

We study the problem of fairly allocating a multiset $M$ of $m$ indivisible items among $n$ agents with additive valuations. Specifically, we introduce a parameter $t$ for the number of distinct types of items and study fair allocations of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Pranay Gorantla , Kunal Marwaha , Santhoshini Velusamy

We propose a new fairness notion, motivated by the practical challenge of allocating teaching assistants (TAs) to courses in a department. Each course requires a certain number of TAs and each TA has preferences over the courses they want…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Pallavi Jain , Palash Jha , Shubham Solanki

Envy shapes competitiveness and cooperation in human groups, yet its role in large language model interactions remains largely unexplored. As LLMs increasingly operate in multi-agent settings, it is important to examine whether they exhibit…

We study envy-free allocations in a many-to-many matching model with contracts in which agents on one side of the market (doctors) are endowed with substitutable choice functions and agents on the other side of the market (hospitals) are…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-06-23 Agustin G. Bonifacio , Nadia Guinazu , Noelia Juarez , Pablo Neme , Jorge Oviedo

In the fair division of items among interested agents, envy-freeness is possibly the most favoured and widely studied formalisation of fairness. For indivisible items, envy-free allocations may not exist in trivial cases, and hence research…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Umang Bhaskar , Gunjan Kumar , Yeshwant Pandit , Rakshitha

We study the mechanism design problem of allocating a set of indivisible items without monetary transfers. Despite the vast literature on this very standard model, it still remains unclear how do truthful mechanisms look like. We focus on…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Georgios Amanatidis , Georgios Birmpas , George Christodoulou , Evangelos Markakis

We study the problem of fairly allocating $m$ indivisible items among $n$ agents. Envy-free allocations, in which each agent prefers her bundle to the bundle of every other agent, need not exist in the worst case. However, when agents have…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Gerdus Benadè , Daniel Halpern , Alexandros Psomas , Paritosh Verma

Fair division of indivisible items is a well-studied topic in Economics and Computer Science. The objective is to allocate items to agents in a fair manner, where each agent has a valuation for each subset of items. Envy-freeness is one of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Ryoga Mahara

We consider the problem of dividing limited resources to individuals arriving over $T$ rounds. Each round has a random number of individuals arrive, and individuals can be characterized by their type (i.e. preferences over the different…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Sean R. Sinclair , Gauri Jain , Siddhartha Banerjee , Christina Lee Yu

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

Several resource allocation settings involve agents with unequal entitlements represented by weights. We analyze weighted fair division from an asymptotic perspective: if $m$ items are divided among $n$ agents whose utilities are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Pasin Manurangsi , Warut Suksompong , Tomohiko Yokoyama

Given an initial resource allocation, where some agents may envy others or where a different distribution of resources might lead to higher social welfare, our goal is to improve the allocation without reassigning resources. We consider a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Robert Bredereck , Andrzej Kaczmarczyk , Junjie Luo , Rolf Niedermeier , Florian Sachse

Prevailing methods of course allocation at undergraduate institutions involve reserving seats to give priority to designated groups of students. We introduce a competitive equilibrium-based mechanism that assigns course seats using student…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-12-24 Daniel Kornbluth , Alexey Kushnir

With spectrum auctions as our prime motivation, in this paper we analyze combinatorial auctions where agents' valuations exhibit complementarities. Assuming that the agents only value bundles of size at most $k$ and also assuming that we…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Dengwang Tang , Vijay Subramanian

Fair allocation of indivisible goods is a well-explored problem. Traditionally, research focused on individual fairness - are individual agents satisfied with their allotted share? - and group fairness - are groups of agents treated fairly?…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Jonathan Scarlett , Nicholas Teh , Yair Zick

We study a problem where a group of agents has to decide how some fixed value should be shared among them. We are interested in settings where the share that each agent receives is based on how that agent is evaluated by other members of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-04 Arthur Carvalho , Kate Larson

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 consider the design of mechanisms that allocate limited resources among self-interested agents using neural networks. Unlike the recent works that leverage machine learning for revenue maximization in auctions, we consider welfare…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Sihan Zeng , Sujay Bhatt , Eleonora Kreacic , Parisa Hassanzadeh , Alec Koppel , Sumitra Ganesh