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In the bottleneck multiple knapsack problem, we are given a set of items and a set of knapsacks, where each item has a profit and a weight, and each knapsack has a capacity. Our goal is to assign items to knapsacks so as to maximize the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Lin Chen , Tingwei Hu , Yuchen Mao , Yong Chen , Lili Mei , An Zhang , Guangting Chen , Guochuan Zhang

We study a constrained version of the knapsack problem in which dependencies between items are given by the adjacencies of a graph. In the 1-neighbour knapsack problem, an item can be selected only if at least one of its neighbours is also…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-09-28 Glencora Borradaile , Brent Heeringa , Gordon Wilfong

We consider the problem of assigning students to schools, when students have different utilities for schools and schools have capacity. There are additional group fairness considerations over students that can be captured either by concave…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Santhini K. A. , Kamesh Munagala , Meghana Nasre , Govind S. Sankar

Maximizing a submodular function has a wide range of applications in machine learning and data mining. One such application is data summarization whose goal is to select a small set of representative and diverse data items from a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Jing Yuan , Shaojie Tang

Numerous algorithms have been produced for the fundamental problem of clustering under many different notions of fairness. Perhaps the most common family of notions currently studied is group fairness, in which proportional group…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Seyed A. Esmaeili , Sharmila Duppala , John P. Dickerson , Brian Brubach

We study a novel problem of fairness in ranking aimed at minimizing the amount of individual unfairness introduced when enforcing group-fairness constraints. Our proposal is rooted in the distributional maxmin fairness theory, which uses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-18 David Garcia-Soriano , Francesco Bonchi

We study a generalization of the knapsack problem with geometric and vector constraints. The input is a set of rectangular items, each with an associated profit and $d$ nonnegative weights ($d$-dimensional vector), and a square knapsack.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Arindam Khan , Eklavya Sharma , K. V. N. Sreenivas

Clustering problems are fundamental to unsupervised learning. There is an increased emphasis on fairness in machine learning and AI; one representative notion of fairness is that no single demographic group should be over-represented among…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-14 David G. Harris , Thomas Pensyl , Aravind Srinivasan , Khoa Trinh

The knapsack problem is one of the classical problems in combinatorial optimization: Given a set of items, each specified by its size and profit, the goal is to find a maximum profit packing into a knapsack of bounded capacity. In the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Susanne Albers , Arindam Khan , Leon Ladewig

The issue of fairness in AI arises from discriminatory practices in applications like job recommendations and risk assessments, emphasising the need for algorithms that do not discriminate based on group characteristics. This concern is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Fengjuan Jia , Mengxiao Zhang , Jiamou Liu , Bakh Khoussainov

The "0-1 knapsack problem" stands as a classical combinatorial optimization conundrum, necessitating the selection of a subset of items from a given set. Each item possesses inherent values and weights, and the primary objective is to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Mohammad Saleh Vahdatpour

The fair-ranking problem, which asks to rank a given set of items to maximize utility subject to group fairness constraints, has received attention in the fairness, information retrieval, and machine learning literature. Recent works,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Anay Mehrotra , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

Many set selection and ranking algorithms have recently been enhanced with diversity constraints that aim to explicitly increase representation of historically disadvantaged populations, or to improve the overall representativeness of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Ke Yang , Vasilis Gkatzelis , Julia Stoyanovich

In this paper, we study the classic submodular maximization problem subject to a group equality constraint under both non-adaptive and adaptive settings. It has been shown that the utility function of many machine learning applications,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Shaojie Tang , Jing Yuan

Diversity maximization problem is a well-studied problem where the goal is to find $k$ diverse items. Fair diversity maximization aims to select a diverse subset of $k$ items from a large dataset, while requiring that each group of items be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Florian Adriaens , Nikolaj Tatti

In the online general knapsack problem, an algorithm is presented with an item $x=(s,v)$ of size $s$ and value $v$ and must irrevocably choose to pack such an item into the knapsack or reject it before the next item appears. The goal is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Elisabet Burjons , Matthias Gehnen

The min-knapsack problem with compactness constraints extends the classical knapsack problem, in the case of ordered items, by introducing a restriction ensuring that they cannot be too far apart. This problem has applications in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-28 Hubert Villuendas , Mathieu Besançon , Jérôme Malick

Package-to-group recommender systems recommend a set of unified items to a group of people. Different from conventional settings, it is not easy to measure the utility of group recommendations because it involves more than one user. In…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Ryoma Sato

We consider the product knapsack problem, which is the variant of the classical 0-1 knapsack problem where the objective consists of maximizing the product of the profits of the selected items. These profits are allowed to be positive or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Ulrich Pferschy , Joachim Schauer , Clemens Thielen

We study the Min-Weighted Sum Bin Packing problem, a variant of the classical Bin Packing problem in which items have a weight, and each item induces a cost equal to its weight multiplied by the index of the bin in which it is packed. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Guillaume Sagnol