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Search and recommendation systems, such as search engines, recruiting tools, online marketplaces, news, and social media, output ranked lists of content, products, and sometimes, people. Credit ratings, standardized tests, risk assessments…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Sruthi Gorantla , Amit Deshpande , Anand Louis

In fair division of indivisible goods, using sequences of sincere choices (or picking sequences) is a natural way to allocate the objects. The idea is as follows: at each stage, a designated agent picks one object among those that remain.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Aurélie Beynier , Sylvain Bouveret , Michel Lemaître , Nicolas Maudet , Simon Rey

We study the problem of allocating multiple types of resources to agents with Leontief preferences. The classic Dominant Resource Fairness (DRF) mechanism satisfies several desired fairness and incentive properties, but is known to have…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Xiaohui Bei , Zihao Li , Junjie Luo

We consider the problem of fairly allocating indivisible public goods. We model the public goods as elements with feasibility constraints on what subsets of elements can be chosen, and assume that agents have additive utilities across…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Brandon Fain , Kamesh Munagala , Nisarg Shah

Rankings of people and items has been highly used in selection-making, match-making, and recommendation algorithms that have been deployed on ranging of platforms from employment websites to searching tools. The ranking position of a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Akrati Saxena , George Fletcher , Mykola Pechenizkiy

We study critical systems that allocate scarce resources to satisfy basic needs, such as homeless services that provide housing. These systems often support communities disproportionately affected by systemic racial, gender, or other…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Nathanael Jo , Bill Tang , Kathryn Dullerud , Sina Aghaei , Eric Rice , Phebe Vayanos

We study fair allocation of indivisible goods to agents with unequal entitlements. Fair allocation has been the subject of many studies in both divisible and indivisible settings. Our emphasis is on the case where the goods are indivisible…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Alireza Farhadi , Mohammad Ghodsi , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Sebastien Lahaie , David Pennock , Masoud Seddighin , Saeed Seddighin , Hadi Yami

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

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

Settings such as lending and policing can be modeled by a centralized agent allocating a resource (loans or police officers) amongst several groups, in order to maximize some objective (loans given that are repaid or criminals that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Hadi Elzayn , Shahin Jabbari , Christopher Jung , Michael Kearns , Seth Neel , Aaron Roth , Zachary Schutzman

With the increasingly broad deployment of federated learning (FL) systems in the real world, it is critical but challenging to ensure fairness in FL, i.e. reasonably satisfactory performances for each of the numerous diverse clients. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Guojun Zhang , Saber Malekmohammadi , Xi Chen , Yaoliang Yu

We study the fair allocation of indivisible goods among agents with identical, additive valuations but individual budget constraints. Here, the indivisible goods--each with a specific size and value--need to be allocated such that the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Siddharth Barman , Arindam Khan , Sudarshan Shyam , K. V. N. Sreenivas

The fair allocation of scarce resources is a central problem in mathematics, computer science, operations research, and economics. While much of the fair-division literature assumes that individuals have underlying cardinal preferences,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Trung Dang , Daniel Halpern , Anuran Makur , Alexandros Psomas , Japneet Singh , Paritosh Verma

We describe mechanisms for the allocation of a scarce resource among multiple users in a way that is efficient, fair, and strategy-proof, but when users do not know their resource requirements. The mechanism is repeated for multiple rounds…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-17 Kirthevasan Kandasamy , Gur-Eyal Sela , Joseph E Gonzalez , Michael I Jordan , Ion Stoica

According to the proportional allocation mechanism from the network optimization literature, users compete for a divisible resource -- such as bandwidth -- by submitting bids. The mechanism allocates to each user a fraction of the resource…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-17 Ioannis Caragiannis , Alexandros A. Voudouris

The definition and implementation of fairness in automated decisions has been extensively studied by the research community. Yet, there hides fallacious reasoning, misleading assertions, and questionable practices at the foundations of the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Robert Lee Poe , Soumia Zohra El Mestari

People are rated and ranked, towards algorithmic decision making in an increasing number of applications, typically based on machine learning. Research on how to incorporate fairness into such tasks has prevalently pursued the paradigm of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Preethi Lahoti , Krishna P. Gummadi , Gerhard Weikum

Recommender systems are widely used to provide personalized recommendations to users. Recent research has shown that recommender systems may be subject to different types of biases, such as popularity bias, leading to an uneven distribution…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Giovanni Pellegrini , Vittorio Maria Faraco , Yashar Deldjoo

We consider a multi-agent resource allocation setting in which an agent's utility may decrease or increase when an item is allocated. We take the group envy-freeness concept that is well-established in the literature and present stronger…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Haris Aziz , Simon Rey

Designing efficient and fair algorithms for sharing multiple resources between heterogeneous demands is becoming increasingly important. Applications include compute clusters shared by multi-task jobs and routers equipped with middleboxes…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-10-06 Thomas Bonald , James Roberts