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We study the probabilistic assignment of items to platforms that satisfies both group and individual fairness constraints. Each item belongs to specific groups and has a preference ordering over platforms. Each platform enforces group…

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A set of divisible resources becomes available over a sequence of rounds and needs to be allocated immediately and irrevocably. Our goal is to distribute these resources to maximize fairness and efficiency. Achieving any non-trivial…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Vasilis Gkatzelis , Alexandros Psomas , Xizhi Tan

Machine learning-driven rankings, where individuals (or items) are ranked in response to a query, mediate search exposure or attention in a variety of safety-critical settings. Thus, it is important to ensure that such rankings are fair.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Aparna Balagopalan , Kai Wang , Olawale Salaudeen , Asia Biega , Marzyeh Ghassemi

Rankings of people and items are at the heart of selection-making, match-making, and recommender systems, ranging from employment sites to sharing economy platforms. As ranking positions influence the amount of attention the ranked subjects…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-05-07 Asia J. Biega , Krishna P. Gummadi , Gerhard Weikum

We study resource allocation in two-sided markets from a fundamental perspective and introduce a general modeling and algorithmic framework to effectively incorporate the complex and multidimensional aspects of fairness. Our main technical…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Javier Cembrano , Andrés Moraga , Victor Verdugo

We develop a framework for the analysis of large-scale Ad-auctions where adverts are assigned over a continuum of search types. For this pay-per-click market, we provide an efficient mechanism that maximizes social welfare. In particular,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-03 Frank Kelly , Peter Key , Neil Walton

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

Internet ad auctions have evolved from a few lines of text to richer informational layouts that include images, sitelinks, videos, etc. Ads in these new formats occupy varying amounts of space, and an advertiser can provide multiple…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Gagan Aggarwal , Kshipra Bhawalkar , Aranyak Mehta , Divyarthi Mohan , Alexandros Psomas

We design online algorithms for the fair allocation of public goods to a set of $N$ agents over a sequence of $T$ rounds and focus on improving their performance using predictions. In the basic model, a public good arrives in each round,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Siddhartha Banerjee , Vasilis Gkatzelis , Safwan Hossain , Billy Jin , Evi Micha , Nisarg Shah

We study the fair allocation of indivisible items under relevance constraints, where each agent has a set of relevant items and can only receive items that are relevant to them. While the relevance constraint has been studied in recent…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Ankang Sun , Ruijie Wang , Bo Li

In the allocation of resources to a set of agents, how do fairness guarantees impact the social welfare? A quantitative measure of this impact is the price of fairness, which measures the worst-case loss of social welfare due to fairness…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Siddharth Barman , Umang Bhaskar , Nisarg Shah

In an online fair allocation problem, a sequence of indivisible items arrives online and needs to be allocated to offline agents immediately and irrevocably. In our paper, we study the online allocation of either goods or chores. We employ…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Yuanyuan Wang , Tianze Wei

Several different fairness notions have been introduced in the context of fair allocation of goods. In this manuscript, we compare between some fairness notions that are used in settings in which agents have arbitrary (perhaps unequal)…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Uriel Feige

Contemporary real-world online ad auctions differ from canonical models [Edelman et al., 2007; Varian, 2009] in at least four ways: (1) values and click-through rates can depend upon users' search queries, but advertisers can only partially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Ming Chen , Sareh Nabi , Marciano Siniscalchi

We consider a dynamic mechanism design problem where an auctioneer sells an indivisible good to groups of buyers in every round, for a total of $T$ rounds. The auctioneer aims to maximize their discounted overall revenue while adhering to a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Alireza Fallah , Michael I. Jordan , Annie Ulichney

Online bidding serves as a fundamental information system in mobile ecosystems, facilitating real-time ad allocation across billions of devices while optimizing both platform performance and user experience through data-driven decision…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Huanyu Yan , Yu Huo , Min Lu , Weitong Ou , Xingyan Shi , Ruihe Shi , Xiaoying Tang

The online bipartite matching problem, extensively studied in the literature, deals with the allocation of online arriving vertices (items) to a predetermined set of offline vertices (agents). However, little attention has been given to the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Shayan Chashm Jahan , Mohammad Sharifi , Suho Shin , Max Springer

We study the problem of allocating indivisible goods among agents with additive valuation functions to achieve both fairness and efficiency under the constraint that each agent receives exactly the same number of goods (the \emph{balanced…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Yasushi Kawase , Ryoga Mahara

Fair resource allocation is an important problem in many real-world scenarios, where resources such as goods and chores must be allocated among agents. In this survey, we delve into the intricacies of fair allocation, focusing specifically…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Shaily Mishra , Manisha Padala , Sujit Gujar

The design of revenue-maximizing auctions with strong incentive guarantees is a core concern of economic theory. Computational auctions enable online advertising, sourcing, spectrum allocation, and myriad financial markets. Analytic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Kevin Kuo , Anthony Ostuni , Elizabeth Horishny , Michael J. Curry , Samuel Dooley , Ping-yeh Chiang , Tom Goldstein , John P. Dickerson