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In the classical cake cutting problem, a resource must be divided among agents with different utilities so that each agent believes they have received a fair share of the resource relative to the other agents. We introduce a variant of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Rediet Abebe , Jon Kleinberg , David Parkes

We study the problem of fairly allocating a divisible resource in the form of a graph, also known as graphical cake cutting. Unlike for the canonical interval cake, a connected envy-free allocation is not guaranteed to exist for a graphical…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Sheung Man Yuen , Warut Suksompong

The classical cake cutting problem studies how to find fair allocations of a heterogeneous and divisible resource among multiple agents. Two of the most commonly studied fairness concepts in cake cutting are proportionality and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Xiaohui Bei , Xiaoming Sun , Hao Wu , Jialin Zhang , Zhijie Zhang , Wei Zi

Cake-cutting is a fundamental model of dividing a heterogeneous resource, such as land, broadcast time, and advertisement space. In this study, we consider the problem of dividing a discrete cake fairly in which the indivisible goods are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Ayumi Igarashi

Cake cutting is a classic model for studying fair division of a heterogeneous, divisible resource among agents with individual preferences. Addressing cake division under a typical requirement that each agent must receive a connected piece…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Siddharth Barman , Pooja Kulkarni

We investigate the problem of fairly dividing a divisible heterogeneous resource, also known as a cake, among a set of agents who may have different entitlements. We characterize the existence of a connected strongly-proportional allocation…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-07 Zsuzsanna Jankó , Attila Joó , Erel Segal-Halevi , Sheung Man Yuen

We consider the well-studied cake cutting problem in which the goal is to find an envy-free allocation based on queries from $n$ agents. The problem has received attention in computer science, mathematics, and economics. It has been a major…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Haris Aziz , Simon Mackenzie

We introduce a graphical framework for fair division in cake cutting, where comparisons between agents are limited by an underlying network structure. We generalize the classical fairness notions of envy-freeness and proportionality to this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-10 Xiaohui Bei , Youming Qiao , Shengyu Zhang

Cake-cutting is a playful name for the fair division of a heterogeneous, divisible good among agents, a well-studied problem at the intersection of mathematics, economics, and artificial intelligence. The cake-cutting literature is rich and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Peter Kern , Daniel Neugebauer , Jörg Rothe , René L. Schilling , Dietrich Stoyan , Robin Weishaupt

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

We consider the classic problem of fairly dividing a heterogeneous good ("cake") among several agents with different valuations. Classic cake-cutting procedures either allocate each agent a collection of disconnected pieces, or assume that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Erel Segal-Halevi , Shmuel Nitzan , Avinatan Hassidim , Yonatan Aumann

In this paper, we consider the problem of how to fairly dividing $m$ indivisible chores among $n$ agents. The fairness measure we considered here is the maximin share. The previous best known result is that there always exists a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Xin Huang , Pinyan Lu

We study the paradigmatic fair division problem of allocating a divisible good among agents with heterogeneous preferences, commonly known as cake cutting. Classical cake cutting protocols are susceptible to manipulation. Do their strategic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-20 Simina Brânzei , Ioannis Caragiannis , David Kurokawa , Ariel D. Procaccia

The classic cake-cutting problem provides a model for addressing the fair and efficient allocation of a divisible, heterogeneous resource among agents with distinct preferences. Focusing on a standard formulation of cake cutting, in which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Mohammad Ghodsi , Amirmahdi Mirfakhar

We consider the problem of fairly dividing a heterogeneous cake between a number of players with different tastes. In this setting, it is known that fairness requirements may result in a suboptimal division from the social welfare…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-18 Orit Arzi , Yonatan Aumann , Yair Dombb

We consider fair allocation of indivisible items under an additional constraint: there is an undirected graph describing the relationship between the items, and each agent's share must form a connected subgraph of this graph. This framework…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-07 Sylvain Bouveret , Katarína Cechlárová , Edith Elkind , Ayumi Igarashi , Dominik Peters

A perfectly divisible cake is to be divided among a group of agents. Each agent is entitled to a share between zero and one, and these entitlements are compatible in that they sum to one. The mediator does not know the preferences of the…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-08-13 Florian Brandl , Andrew Mackenzie

This work develops algorithmic results for the classic cake-cutting problem in which a divisible, heterogeneous resource (modeled as a cake) needs to be partitioned among agents with distinct preferences. We focus on a standard formulation…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Siddharth Barman , Nidhi Rathi

The fair division literature in economics considers how to divide resources between multiple agents such that the allocation is envy-free: each agent receives their favorite piece. Researchers have developed a variety of fair division…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Noah Bertram , Alex Levinson , Justin Hsu

Fair division with unequal shares is an intensively studied recourse allocation problem. For $ i\in [n] $, let $ \mu_i $ be an atomless probability measure on the measurable space $(C,\mathcal{S}) $ and let $ t_i $ be positive numbers…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-15 Zsuzsanna Jankó , Attila Joó