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We study the problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods to groups of agents. Agents in the same group share the same set of goods even though they may have different preferences. Previous work has focused on unanimous fairness, in which…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Erel Segal-Halevi , Warut Suksompong

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

Given a set of $p$ players we consider problems concerning envy-free allocation of collections of $k$ pieces from a given set of goods or chores. We show that if $p\le n$ and each player can choose $k$ pieces out of $n$ pieces of a cake,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-27 Kathryn Nyman , Francis Edward Su , Shira Zerbib

This paper studies fair division of divisible and indivisible items among agents whose cardinal preferences are not necessarily monotone. We establish the existence of fair divisions and develop approximation algorithms to compute them. We…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Siddharth Barman , Paritosh Verma

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 mechanism design problem of allocating a set of indivisible items without monetary transfers. Despite the vast literature on this very standard model, it still remains unclear how do truthful mechanisms look like. We focus on…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Georgios Amanatidis , Georgios Birmpas , George Christodoulou , Evangelos Markakis

We study the computational complexity of fair division of indivisible items in an enriched model: there is an underlying graph on the set of items. And we have to allocate the items (i.e., the vertices of the graph) to a set of agents in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Jayakrishnan Madathil

We consider the problem of fair allocation of indivisible items to agents that have arbitrary entitlements to the items. Every agent $i$ has a valuation function $v_i$ and an entitlement $b_i$, where entitlements sum up to~1. Which…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Moshe Babaioff , Uriel Feige

We consider the problem of fairly dividing a set of items. Much of the fair division literature assumes that the items are `goods' i.e., they yield positive utility for the agents. There is also some work where the items are `chores' that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Haris Aziz , Ioannis Caragiannis , Ayumi Igarashi , Toby Walsh

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

In this note we study how to share a good between n players in a simple and equitable way. We give a short proof for the existence of such fair divisions.

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-30 Guillaume Chèze

We study the problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods to agents in an online setting, where goods arrive sequentially and must be allocated irrevocably. Focusing on the popular fairness notions of envy-freeness, proportionality, and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Tzeh Yuan Neoh , Jannik Peters , Nicholas Teh

We consider the problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods, among agents, under cardinality constraints and additive valuations. In this setting, we are given a partition of the entire set of goods---i.e., the goods are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Siddharth Barman , Arpita Biswas

We initiate the study of the communication complexity of fair division with indivisible goods. We focus on some of the most well-studied fairness notions (envy-freeness, proportionality, and approximations thereof) and valuation classes…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Benjamin Plaut , Tim Roughgarden

Fair division of indivisible goods is a very well-studied problem. The goal of this problem is to distribute $m$ goods to $n$ agents in a "fair" manner, where every agent has a valuation for each subset of goods. We assume general…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Bhaskar Ray Chaudhury , Tellikepalli Kavitha , Kurt Mehlhorn , Alkmini Sgouritsa

We study the classic divide-and-choose method for equitably allocating divisible goods between two players who are rational, self-interested Bayesian agents. The players have additive values for the goods. The prior distributions on those…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Jamie Tucker-Foltz , Richard Zeckhauser

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

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 consider the discrete assignment problem in which agents express ordinal preferences over objects and these objects are allocated to the agents in a fair manner. We use the stochastic dominance relation between fractional or randomized…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Haris Aziz , Serge Gaspers , Simon Mackenzie , Toby Walsh

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