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We study the problem of allocating a set of indivisible goods among a set of agents with \emph{2-value additive valuations}. In this setting, each good is valued either $1$ or $p/q$, for some fixed co-prime numbers $p,q\in \mathbb{N}$ such…

We study the problem of fairly allocating $m$ indivisible items arriving online, among $n$ (offline) agents. Although envy-freeness has emerged as the archetypal fairness notion, envy-free (EF) allocations need not exist with indivisible…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Pooja Kulkarni , Ruta Mehta , Vishnu V. Narayan , Tomasz Ponitka

We consider a resource allocation problem with agents that have additive ternary valuations for a set of indivisible items, and bound the price of envy-free up to one item (EF1) allocations. For a large number $n$ of agents, we show a lower…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Maria Kyropoulou , Alexandros A. Voudouris

We study the problem of fair rent division that entails splitting the rent and allocating the rooms of an apartment among roommates (agents) in a fair manner. In this setup, a distribution of the rent and an allocation is said to be fair if…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Eshwar Ram Arunachaleswaran , Siddharth Barman , Nidhi Rathi

In a Walrasian equilibrium (WE), all bidders are envy-free (EF), meaning that their allocation maximizes their utility; and the market clears (MC), meaning that the price of unallocated goods is zero. EF is desirable to ensure the long-term…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-11 Enrique Areyan Viqueira , Amy Greenwald , Victor Naroditskiy

We study the problem of fairly assigning a set of discrete tasks (or chores) among a set of agents with additive valuations. Each chore is associated with a start and finish time, and each agent can perform at most one chore at any given…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Sarfaraz Equbal , Rohit Gurjar , Yatharth Kumar , Swaprava Nath , Raghuvansh Saxena , Rohit Vaish

Envy-freeness up to any good (EFX) is a popular and important fairness property in the fair allocation of indivisible goods, of which its existence in general is still an open question. In this work, we investigate the problem of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Tzeh Yuan Neoh , Nicholas Teh

We study the envy-free house allocation problem when agents have uncertain preferences over items and consider several well-studied preference uncertainty models. The central problem that we focus on is computing an allocation that has the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Haris Aziz , Isaiah Iliffe , Bo Li , Angus Ritossa , Ankang Sun , Mashbat Suzuki

We consider allocating indivisible goods with provable fairness guarantees that are satisfied regardless of which bundle of items each agent receives. Symmetrical allocations of this type are known to exist for divisible resources, such as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Connor Johnston , Aleksandr M. Kazachkov

We consider the problem of fair allocation of indivisible chores under additive valuations. We assume that the chores are divided into two types and under this scenario, we present several results. Our first result is a new characterization…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Haris Aziz , Jeremy Lindsay , Angus Ritossa , Mashbat Suzuki

We study the problem of finding fair and efficient allocations of a set of indivisible items to a set of agents, where each item may be a good (positively valued) for some agents and a bad (negatively valued) for others, i.e., a mixed…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Vasilis Livanos , Ruta Mehta , Aniket Murhekar

We study the problem of allocating indivisible goods among agents in a fair manner. While envy-free allocations of indivisible goods are not guaranteed to exist, envy-freeness can be achieved by additionally providing some subsidy to the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Siddharth Barman , Anand Krishna , Y. Narahari , Soumyarup Sadhukhan

We study the problem of allocating a set of indivisible goods to a set of agents with additive valuation functions, aiming to achieve approximate envy-freeness up to any good ($\alpha$-EFX). The state-of-the-art results on the problem…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Georgios Amanatidis , Aris Filos-Ratsikas , Alkmini Sgouritsa

We study the envy free pricing problem faced by a seller who wishes to maximize revenue by setting prices for bundles of items. If there is an unlimited supply of items and agents are single minded then we show that finding the revenue…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Amos Fiat , Amiram Wingarten

We study the problem of dynamically allocating $T$ indivisible items to $n$ agents with the restriction that the allocation is fair all the time. Due to the negative results to achieve fairness when allocations are irrevocable, we allow…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Mingwei Yang

We study the problem of computing \emph{fair} divisions of a set of indivisible goods among agents with \emph{additive} valuations. For the past many decades, the literature has explored various notions of fairness, that can be primarily…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Hannaneh Akrami , Nidhi Rathi

The classic house allocation problem is primarily concerned with finding a matching between a set of agents and a set of houses that guarantees some notion of economic efficiency (e.g. utilitarian welfare). While recent works have shifted…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Hadi Hosseini , Medha Kumar , Sanjukta Roy

This paper re-examines the problem of fairly and efficiently allocating indivisible goods among agents with additive bivalued valuations. Garg and Murhekar (2021) proposed a polynomial-time algorithm that purported to find an EFX and fPO…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Hui Liu , Zhijie Zhang

We study classic fair-division problems in a partial information setting. This paper respectively addresses fair division of rent, cake, and indivisible goods among agents with cardinal preferences. We will show that, for all of these…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Eshwar Ram Arunachaleswaran , Siddharth Barman , Nidhi Rathi

Equitability is a well-studied fairness notion in fair division, where an allocation is equitable if all agents receive equal utility from their allocation. For indivisible items, an exactly equitable allocation may not exist, and a natural…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Umang Bhaskar , Vishwa Prakash HV , Aditi Sethia , Rakshitha