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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 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

In the allocation of indivisible goods, the maximum Nash welfare rule has recently been characterized as the only rule within the class of additive welfarist rules that satisfies envy-freeness up to one good. We extend this characterization…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2023-02-20 Sheung Man Yuen , Warut Suksompong

We study the fundamental problem of fairly dividing a set of indivisible goods among agents with additive valuations. Here, envy-freeness up to any good (EFX) is a central fairness notion and resolving its existence is regarded as one of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Hannaneh Akrami , Ryoga Mahara , Kurt Mehlhorn , Nidhi Rathi

We study the problem of maximizing Nash welfare (MNW) while allocating indivisible goods to asymmetric agents. The Nash welfare of an allocation is the weighted geometric mean of agents' utilities, and the allocation with maximum Nash…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Jugal Garg , Edin Husić , Aniket Murhekar , László Végh

We study the problem of finding an envy-free allocation of indivisible goods among agents with additive valuations. We focus on the fairness notion of envy-freeness up to any good (EFX). A central open question in fair division is whether…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Vishwa Prakash HV , Pratik Ghosal , Prajakta Nimbhorkar , Nithin Varma

The Nash social welfare (NSW) is a well-known social welfare measurement that balances individual utilities and the overall efficiency. In the context of fair allocation of indivisible goods, it has been shown by Caragiannis et al. (EC 2016…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Xiaowei Wu , Bo Li , Jiarui Gan

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

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 problem of determining an envy-free allocation of indivisible goods among multiple agents with additive valuations. EFX, which stands for envy-freeness up to any good, is a well-studied relaxation of the envy-free allocation…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Pratik Ghosal , Vishwa Prakash HV , Prajakta Nimbhorkar , Nithin Varma

We study the problem of allocating a set of indivisible goods among a set of agents with \emph{2-value additive valuations}. In this setting, each good is valued either $1$ or $p/q$, for some fixed co-prime numbers $p,q\in \mathbb{N}$ such…

We consider two models of fair division with indivisible items: one for goods and one for bads. For goods, we study two generalized envy freeness proxies (EF1 and EFX for goods) and three common welfare (utilitarian, egalitarian and Nash)…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Martin Aleksandrov

We establish a compatibility between fairness and efficiency, captured via Nash Social Welfare (NSW), under the broad class of subadditive valuations. We prove that, for subadditive valuations, there always exists a partial allocation that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Siddharth Barman , Mashbat Suzuki

We study the problem of approximating maximum Nash social welfare (NSW) when allocating m indivisible items among n asymmetric agents with submodular valuations. The NSW is a well-established notion of fairness and efficiency, defined as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Jugal Garg , Pooja Kulkarni , Rucha Kulkarni

We study the problem of designing truthful and fair mechanisms when allocating a mixture of divisible and indivisible goods. We first show that there does not exist an EFM (envy-free for mixed goods) and truthful mechanism in general. This…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Zihao Li , Shengxin Liu , Xinhang Lu , Biaoshuai Tao

We here address the problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods or chores to $n$ agents with weights that define their entitlement to the set of indivisible resources. Stemming from well-studied fairness concepts such as envy-freeness up…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-19 MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Max Springer , Hadi Yami

Fairness and efficiency have become the pillars of modern fair division research, but prior work on achieving both simultaneously is largely limited to the unconstrained setting. We study fair and efficient allocations of indivisible goods…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Benjamin Cookson , Soroush Ebadian , Nisarg Shah

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

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 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