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We establish a compatibility between fairness and efficiency, captured via Nash Social Welfare (NSW), under the broad class of subadditive valuations. We prove that, for subadditive valuations, there always exists a partial allocation that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Siddharth Barman , Mashbat Suzuki

Allocating items in a fair and economically efficient manner is a central problem in fair division. We study this problem for agents with additive preferences, when items are all goods or all chores, divisible or indivisible. The celebrated…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Owen Eckart , Alexandros Psomas , Paritosh Verma

The fair division of resources is an important age-old problem that has led to a rich body of literature. At the center of this literature lies the question of whether there exist fair mechanisms despite strategic behavior of the agents. A…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Simina Brânzei , Vasilis Gkatzelis , Ruta Mehta

Allocating indivisible goods is a ubiquitous task in fair division. We study additive welfarist rules, an important class of rules which choose an allocation that maximizes the sum of some function of the agents' utilities. Prior work has…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Karen Frilya Celine , Warut Suksompong , Sheung Man Yuen

We study the problem of allocating $m$ indivisible goods among $n$ agents, where each agent's valuation is fractionally subadditive (XOS). With respect to AnyPrice Share (APS) fairness, Kulkarni et al. (2024) showed that, when agents have…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Ziheng Chen , Bo Li , Zihan Luo , Jialin Zhang

The problem of finding envy-free allocations of indivisible goods can not always be solved; therefore, it is common to study some relaxations such as envy-free up to one good (EF1). Another property of interest for efficiency of an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Franklin Camacho , Rigoberto Fonseca-Delgado , Ramón Pino Pérez , Guido Tapia

This paper considers the problem of dividing agents among coalitions. We concentrate on Additively Separable Hedonic Games (ASHG's), in which each agent has a non-negative value for every other agent and her utility is the sum of the values…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Naftali Waxman , Sarit Kraus , Noam Hazon

We initiate the study of centralized algorithms for welfare-maximizing allocation of goods to buyers subject to average-value constraints. We show that this problem is NP-hard to approximate beyond a factor of $\frac{e}{e-1}$, and provide a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Kshipra Bhawalkar , Zhe Feng , Anupam Gupta , Aranyak Mehta , David Wajc , Di Wang

We propose a multi-agent variant of the classical multi-armed bandit problem, in which there are $N$ agents and $K$ arms, and pulling an arm generates a (possibly different) stochastic reward for each agent. Unlike the classical multi-armed…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Safwan Hossain , Evi Micha , Nisarg Shah

We study the problem of fairly and efficiently allocating indivisible goods among agents with additive valuation functions. Envy-freeness up to one good (EF1) is a well-studied fairness notion for indivisible goods, while Pareto optimality…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Ryoga Mahara

We study the fair division problem of allocating $m$ indivisible goods to $n$ agents with additive personalized bi-valued utilities. Specifically, each agent $i$ assigns one of two positive values $a_i > b_i > 0$ to each good, indicating…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Jiarong Jin , Biaoshuai Tao

We study the problem of fairly allocating a set of indivisible goods among agents with matroid rank valuations -- every good provides a marginal value of $0$ or $1$ when added to a bundle and valuations are submodular. We generalize the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Vignesh Viswanathan , Yair Zick

We consider the bilateral trade problem, in which two agents trade a single indivisible item. It is known that the only dominant-strategy truthful mechanism is the fixed-price mechanism: given commonly known distributions of the buyer's…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Zi Yang Kang , Francisco Pernice , Jan Vondrák

Given a set of $m$ agents and a set of $n$ items, where agent $A$ has utility $u_{A,i}$ for item $i$, our goal is to allocate items to agents to maximize fairness. Specifically, the utility of an agent is the sum of its utilities for items…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-01-05 Deeparnab Chakrabarty , Julia Chuzhoy , Sanjeev Khanna

Motivated by emerging resource allocation and data placement problems such as web caches and peer-to-peer systems, we consider and study a class of resource allocation problems over a network of agents (nodes). In this model, nodes can…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-07 S. Rasoul Etesami

We study the efficiency of the proportional allocation mechanism, that is widely used to allocate divisible resources. Each agent submits a bid for each divisible resource and receives a fraction proportional to her bids. We quantify the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-28 George Christodoulou , Alkmini Sgouritsa , Bo Tang

We investigate the fair allocation of indivisible goods to agents with possibly different entitlements represented by weights. Previous work has shown that guarantees for additive valuations with existing envy-based notions cannot be…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Luisa Montanari , Ulrike Schmidt-Kraepelin , Warut Suksompong , Nicholas Teh

We consider the problem of repeatedly allocating multiple shareable public goods that have limited availability in an online setting without the use of money. In our setting, agents have additive values, and the value each agent receives…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Chido Onyeze , David X. Lin , Siddhartha Banerjee , Éva Tardos

We study the allocation of divisible goods to competing agents via a market mechanism, focusing on agents with Leontief utilities. The majority of the economics and mechanism design literature has focused on \emph{linear} prices, meaning…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Ashish Goel , Reyna Hulett , Benjamin Plaut

In the allocation of indivisible goods, the maximum Nash welfare rule has recently been characterized as the only rule within the class of additive welfarist rules that satisfies envy-freeness up to one good. We extend this characterization…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2023-02-20 Sheung Man Yuen , Warut Suksompong
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