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We investigate the existence of fair and efficient allocations of indivisible chores to asymmetric agents who have unequal entitlements or weights. We consider the fairness notion of weighted envy-freeness up to one chore (wEF1) and the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Jugal Garg , Aniket Murhekar , John Qin

We present a simple local search algorithm for computing EFX (envy-free up to any good) allocations of $m$ indivisible goods among $n$ agents with additive valuations. EFX is a compelling fairness notion, and whether such allocations always…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Simina Brânzei

Fair allocation of indivisible goods studies allocating $m$ goods among $n$ agents in a fair manner. While fairness is a fundamental requirement in many real-world applications, it often conflicts with (economic) efficiency. This raises a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Xiaolin Bu , Zihao Li , Shengxin Liu , Jiaxin Song , Biaoshuai Tao

We study the problem of allocating a set of indivisible goods among a set of agents in a fair and efficient manner. An allocation is said to be fair if it is envy-free up to one good (EF1), which means that each agent prefers its own bundle…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Siddharth Barman , Sanath Kumar Krishnamurthy , Rohit Vaish

In fair division problems, we are given a set $S$ of $m$ items and a set $N$ of $n$ agents with individual preferences, and the goal is to find an allocation of items among agents so that each agent finds the allocation fair. There are…

We consider fair division problems where indivisible items arrive one-by-one in an online fashion and are allocated immediately to agents who have additive utilities over these items. Many existing offline mechanisms do not work in this…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Martin Aleksandrov , Toby Walsh

We initiate the study of parallel algorithms for fairly allocating indivisible goods among agents with additive preferences. We give fast parallel algorithms for various fundamental problems, such as finding a Pareto Optimal and EF1…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Rohan Garg , Alexandros Psomas

We study the problem of fair and efficient allocation of a set of indivisible chores to agents with additive cost functions. We consider the popular fairness notion of envy-freeness up to one good (EF1) with the efficiency notion of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Jugal Garg , Aniket Murhekar , John Qin

The existence of EFX allocations is a fundamental question in fair division. In this paper, we construct a three-agent, eight-good instance with monotone subadditive valuations such that no allocation satisfies $\alpha$-EFX for any $\alpha…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Simon Mackenzie , Mashbat Suzuki

We study a discrete fair division problem where $n$ agents have additive valuation functions over a set of $m$ goods. We focus on the well-known $\alpha$-EFX fairness criterion, according to which the envy of an agent for another agent is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Aris Filos-Ratsikas , Georgios Kalantzis , Alexandros A. Voudouris

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 consider the fair division problem of indivisible items. It is well-known that an envy-free allocation may not exist, and a relaxed version of envy-freeness, envy-freeness up to one item (EF1), has been widely considered. In an EF1…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Xiaolin Bu , Zihao Li , Shengxin Liu , Jiaxin Song , Biaoshuai Tao

We investigate the query complexity of the fair allocation of indivisible goods. For two agents with arbitrary monotonic utilities, we design an algorithm that computes an allocation satisfying envy-freeness up to one good (EF1), a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Hoon Oh , Ariel D. Procaccia , Warut Suksompong

In this paper we initiate the study of finding fair and efficient allocations of an indivisible mixed manna: Divide m indivisible items among n agents under the fairness notion of maximin share (MMS) and the efficiency notion of Pareto…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Rucha Kulkarni , Ruta Mehta , Setareh Taki

We study the problem of fair allocation of a set of indivisible goods among $n$ agents with $k$ distinct additive valuations, with the goal of achieving approximate envy-freeness up to any good ($\alpha-\mathrm{EFX}$). It is known that EFX…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Vishwa Prakash HV , Ruta Mehta , Prajakta Nimbhorkar

A collection of objects, some of which are good and some are bad, is to be divided fairly among agents with different tastes, modeled by additive utility functions. If the objects cannot be shared, so that each of them must be entirely…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Fedor Sandomirskiy , Erel Segal-Halevi

Envy-freeness up to any good (EFX) is a central fairness notion for allocating indivisible goods, yet its existence is unresolved in general. In the setting with few surplus items, where the number of goods exceeds the number of agents by a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Eugene Lim , Tzeh Yuan Neoh , Nicholas Teh

We study the problem of allocating indivisible chores among agents with additive cost functions in a fair and efficient manner. A major open question in this area is whether there always exists an allocation that is envy-free up to one…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Ryoga Mahara

We study the problem of allocating $m$ indivisible items to $n$ agents with additive utilities. It is desirable for the allocation to be both fair and efficient, which we formalize through the notions of envy-freeness and Pareto-optimality.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Yushi Bai , Paul Gölz

In fair division, equitability dictates that each participant receives the same level of utility. In this work, we study equitable allocations of indivisible goods among agents with additive valuations. While prior work has studied…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Rupert Freeman , Sujoy Sikdar , Rohit Vaish , Lirong Xia