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We study searching and sorting in rounds motivated by a fair division question: given a cake cutting problem with $n$ players, compute a fair allocation in at most $k$ rounds of interaction with the players. Rounds interpolate between the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Simina Brânzei , Dimitris Paparas , Nicholas Recker

We consider the problem of fairly dividing a heterogeneous cake between a number of players with different tastes. In this setting, it is known that fairness requirements may result in a suboptimal division from the social welfare…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-18 Orit Arzi , Yonatan Aumann , Yair Dombb

The design of algorithms for political redistricting generally takes one of two approaches: optimize an objective such as compactness or, drawing on fair division, construct a protocol whose outcomes guarantee partisan fairness. We aim to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Gerdus Benadè , Ariel D. Procaccia , Jamie Tucker-Foltz

We investigate the problem of fairly dividing a divisible heterogeneous resource, also known as a cake, among a set of agents who may have different entitlements. We characterize the existence of a connected strongly-proportional allocation…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-07 Zsuzsanna Jankó , Attila Joó , Erel Segal-Halevi , Sheung Man Yuen

The fair division literature in economics considers how to divide resources between multiple agents such that the allocation is envy-free: each agent receives their favorite piece. Researchers have developed a variety of fair division…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Noah Bertram , Alex Levinson , Justin Hsu

In this paper we give a unified approach in categorical setting to the problem of finding the Galois closure of a finite cover, which includes as special cases the familiar finite separable field extensions, finite unramified covers of a…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-07-04 Hau-Wen Huang , Wen-Ching Winnie Li

Cake-cutting is a fundamental model of dividing a heterogeneous resource, such as land, broadcast time, and advertisement space. In this study, we consider the problem of dividing a discrete cake fairly in which the indivisible goods are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Ayumi Igarashi

We study an abstract setting for cutting planes for integer programming called the infinite group problem. In this abstraction, cutting planes are computed via cut generating function that act on the simplex tableau. In this function space,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-13 Robert Hildebrand , Matthias Köppe , Luze Xu

This paper proposes a cake-cutting protocol using cryptography when the cake is a heterogeneous good that is represented by an interval on a real line. Although the Dubins-Spanier moving-knife protocol with one knife achieves simple…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-22 Yoshifumi Manabe , Tatsuaki Okamoto

The Max-Cut problem is a well known combinatorial optimization problem. In this paper we describe a fast approximation method. Given a graph G, we want to find a cut whose size is maximal among all possible cuts. A cut is a partition of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-11 Blaine Keetch , Yves van Gennip

We consider the setting of repeated fair division between two players, denoted Alice and Bob, with private valuations over a cake. In each round, a new cake arrives, which is identical to the ones in previous rounds. Alice cuts the cake at…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Simina Brânzei , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Reed Phillips , Suho Shin , Kun Wang

We study the problem of fairly dividing a heterogeneous resource, commonly known as cake cutting and chore division, in the presence of strategic agents. While a number of results in this setting have been established in previous works,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Xiaohui Bei , Guangda Huzhang , Warut Suksompong

Working in the Blum-Shub-Smale model of computation on the real numbers, we answer several questions of Meer and Ziegler. First, we show that, for each natural number d, an oracle for the set of algebraic real numbers of degree at most d is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Wesley Calvert , Ken Kramer , Russell Miller

Without additional hypotheses, Proposition 7.1 in Brams and Taylor's book "Fair Division" (Cambridge University Press, 1996) is false, as are several related Pareto-optimality theorems of Brams, Jones and Klamler in their 2006 cake-cutting…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2008-07-22 Theodore P. Hill

In this paper, we show algorithms for solving the cake-cutting problem in sublinear-time. More specifically, we preassign (simple) fair portions to o(n) players in o(n)-time, and minimize the damage to the rest of the players. All currently…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-24 Hiro Ito , Takahiro Ueda

We consider the problem of query-efficient global max-cut on a weighted undirected graph in the value oracle model examined by [RSW18]. Graph algorithms in this cut query model and other query models have recently been studied for various…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Orestis Plevrakis , Seyoon Ragavan , S. Matthew Weinberg

We consider the well-studied cake cutting problem in which the goal is to find an envy-free allocation based on queries from $n$ agents. The problem has received attention in computer science, mathematics, and economics. It has been a major…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Haris Aziz , Simon Mackenzie

This study introduces a mediation analysis framework when the mediator is a graph. A Gaussian covariance graph model is assumed for graph representation. Causal estimands and assumptions are discussed under this representation. With a…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-07-11 Yixi Xu , Yi Zhao

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 important papers on cake-cutting -- one of the key areas in fair division and resource allocation -- the measure-theoretical fundamentals are not fully correctly given. It is not clear (i) which family of sets should be taken for the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-16 René L. Schilling , Dietrich Stoyan