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Ranking alternatives is a natural way for humans to explain their preferences. It is being used in many settings, such as school choice, course allocations and residency matches. In some cases, several `items' are given to each participant.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Erel Segal-Halevi , Haris Aziz , Avinatan Hassidim

In this article we study a cake cutting problem. More precisely, we study symmetric fair division algorithms, that is to say we study algorithms where the order of the players do not influence the value obtained by each player. In the first…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Guillaume Chèze

Resource allocation problems are a fundamental domain in which to evaluate the fairness properties of algorithms. The trade-offs between fairness and utilization have a long history in this domain. A recent line of work has considered…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Kate Donahue , Jon Kleinberg

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

The fair allocation of indivisible resources is a fundamental problem. Existing research has developed various allocation mechanisms or algorithms to satisfy different fairness notions. For example, round robin (RR) was proposed to meet the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Ryota Maruo , Koh Takeuchi , Hisashi Kashima

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

We study statistics of the knockout tournament, where only the winner of a fixture progresses to the next. We assign a real number called competitiveness to each contestant and find that the resulting distribution of prize money follows a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-01-09 Seung Ki Baek , Il Gu Yi , Hye Jin Park , Beom Jun Kim

We study group fairness in the context of feedback loops induced by meritocratic selection into programs that themselves confer additional advantage, like college admissions. We introduce a stylized, yet novel inter-generational model for…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Gaurab Pokharel , Diptangshu Sen , Sanmay Das , Juba Ziani

We study the fair allocation of indivisible goods among agents with additive valuations. The fair division literature has traditionally focused on two broad classes of fairness notions: envy-based notions and share-based notions. Within the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Hannaneh Akrami , Timo Reichert

We study the fair division of a continuous resource, such as a land-estate or a time-interval, among pre-specified groups of agents, such as families. Each family is given a piece of the resource and this piece is used simultaneously by all…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Erel Segal-Halevi , Shmuel Nitzan

Recent work highlights the role of causality in designing equitable decision-making algorithms. It is not immediately clear, however, how existing causal conceptions of fairness relate to one another, or what the consequences are of using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Hamed Nilforoshan , Johann Gaebler , Ravi Shroff , Sharad Goel

A model is proposed to allocate Formula One World Championship prize money among the constructors. The methodology is based on pairwise comparison matrices, allows for the use of any weighting method, and makes possible to tune the level of…

General Economics · Economics 2021-06-15 Dóra Gréta Petróczy , László Csató

Randomized rankings have been of recent interest to achieve ex-ante fairer exposure and better robustness than deterministic rankings. We propose a set of natural axioms for randomized group-fair rankings and prove that there exists a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Sruthi Gorantla , Amit Deshpande , Anand Louis

Competition is ubiquitous in many complex biological, social, and technological systems, playing an integral role in the evolutionary dynamics of the systems. It is often useful to determine the dominance hierarchy or the rankings of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-01-09 Seungkyu Shin , Sebastian E. Ahnert , Juyong Park

Fairness and privacy are two important concerns in social decision-making processes such as resource allocation. We study privacy in the fair allocation of indivisible resources using the well-established framework of differential privacy.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Pasin Manurangsi , Warut Suksompong

With very few exceptions, recent research in fair division has mostly focused on deterministic allocations. Deviating from this trend, we study the fairness notion of interim envy-freeness (iEF) for lotteries over allocations, which serves…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Ioannis Caragiannis , Panagiotis Kanellopoulos , Maria Kyropoulou

We study a portioning setting in which a public resource such as time or money is to be divided among a given set of candidates, and each agent proposes a division of the resource. We consider two families of aggregation rules for this…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Edith Elkind , Matthias Greger , Patrick Lederer , Warut Suksompong , Nicholas Teh

We consider the age-old problem of allocating items among different agents in a way that is efficient and fair. Two papers, by Dolev et al. and Ghodsi et al., have recently studied this problem in the context of computer systems. Both…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-04-20 Avital Gutman , Noam Nisan

The problem of allocating indivisible resources to agents arises in a wide range of domains, including treatment distribution and social support programs. An important goal in algorithm design for this problem is fairness, where the focus…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Niclas Boehmer , Luca Kreisel

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