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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

We study fair allocation of indivisible chores (i.e., items with non-positive value) among agents with additive valuations. An allocation is deemed fair if it is (approximately) equitable, which means that the disutilities of the agents are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Rupert Freeman , Sujoy Sikdar , Rohit Vaish , Lirong Xia

Equitable allocation of indivisible items involves partitioning the items among agents such that everyone derives (almost) equal utility. We consider the approximate notion of \textit{equitability up to one item} (EQ1) and focus on the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Hadi Hosseini , Aditi Sethia

We revisit the setting of fair allocation of indivisible items among agents with heterogeneous, non-monotone valuations. We explore the existence and efficient computation of allocations that approximately satisfy either envy-freeness or…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Vittorio Bilò , Martin Loebl , Cosimo Vinci

With very few exceptions, recent research in fair division has mostly focused on deterministic allocations. Deviating from this trend, we study the fairness notion of interim envy-freeness (iEF) for lotteries over allocations, which serves…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Ioannis Caragiannis , Panagiotis Kanellopoulos , Maria Kyropoulou

We study the fair allocation of indivisible goods under cardinality constraints, where each agent must receive a bundle of fixed size. This models practical scenarios, such as assigning shifts or forming equally sized teams. Recently,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Alviona Mancho , Evangelos Markakis , Nicos Protopapas

We study the fair allocation of indivisible goods and chores under ordinal valuations for agents with unequal entitlements. We show the existence and polynomial time computation of weighted necessarily proportional up to one item…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Vishwa Prakash H. V. , Prajakta Nimbhorkar

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

We study fair allocation of indivisible goods among agents. Prior research focuses on additive agent preferences, which leads to an impossibility when seeking truthfulness, fairness, and efficiency. We show that when agents have binary…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Daniel Halpern , Ariel D. Procaccia , Alexandros Psomas , Nisarg Shah

We study the computational complexity of fairly allocating a set of indivisible items under externalities. In this recently-proposed setting, in addition to the utility the agent gets from their bundle, they also receive utility from items…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Argyrios Deligkas , Eduard Eiben , Viktoriia Korchemna , Šimon Schierreich

We study the fair allocation of indivisible resources among agents. Most prior work focuses on fairness and/or efficiency among agents. However, the allocator, as the resource owner, may also be involved in many scenarios (e.g., government…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Xiaolin Bu , Zihao Li , Shengxin Liu , Jiaxin Song , Biaoshuai Tao

We consider the problem of allocating a set on indivisible items to players with private preferences in an efficient and fair way. We focus on valuations that have dichotomous marginals, in which the added value of any item to a set is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Moshe Babaioff , Tomer Ezra , Uriel Feige

We study best-of-both-worlds guarantees for the fair division of indivisible items among agents with subadditive valuations. Our main result establishes the existence of a random allocation that is simultaneously ex-ante…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Michal Feldman , Simon Mauras , Vishnu V. Narayan , Tomasz Ponitka

We study the problem of fairly and truthfully allocating $m$ indivisible items to $n$ agents with additive preferences. Specifically, we consider truthful mechanisms outputting allocations that satisfy EF$^{+u}_{-v}$, where, in an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Xiaolin Bu , Biaoshuai Tao

Reallocating resources to get mutually beneficial outcomes is a fundamental problem in various multi-agent settings. While finding an arbitrary Pareto optimal allocation is generally easy, checking whether a particular allocation is Pareto…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Haris Aziz , Peter Biro , Jerome Lang , Julien Lesca , Jerome Monnot

The goal of fair division is to distribute resources among competing players in a "fair" way. Envy-freeness is the most extensively studied fairness notion in fair division. Envy-free allocations do not always exist with indivisible goods,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Benjamin Plaut , Tim Roughgarden

Motivated by real-world applications, we study the fair allocation of graphical resources, where the resources are the vertices in a graph. Upon receiving a set of resources, an agent's utility equals the weight of a maximum matching in the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Zheng Chen , Bo Li , Minming Li , Guochuan Zhang

We study how to fairly allocate a set of indivisible chores to a group of agents, where each agent $i$ has a non-negative weight $w_i$ that represents its obligation for undertaking the chores. We consider the fairness notion of weighted…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Xiaowei Wu , Cong Zhang , Shengwei Zhou

We study fair division of divisible goods under generalized assignment constraints. Here, each good has an agent-specific value and size, and every agent has a budget constraint that limits the total size of the goods she can receive. Since…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Siddharth Barman , Ioannis Caragiannis , Sudarshan Shyam

We develop polynomial-time algorithms for the fair and efficient allocation of indivisible goods among $n$ agents that have subadditive valuations over the goods. We first consider the Nash social welfare as our objective and design a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Siddharth Barman , Umang Bhaskar , Anand Krishna , Ranjani G. Sundaram