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Fairly dividing a set of indivisible resources to a set of agents is of utmost importance in some applications. However, after an allocation has been implemented the preferences of agents might change and envy might arise. We study the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Niclas Boehmer , Robert Bredereck , Klaus Heeger , Dušan Knop , Junjie Luo

Background: The wide adoption of AI- and ML-based systems in sensitive domains raises severe concerns about their fairness. Many methods have been proposed in the literature to enhance software fairness. However, the majority behave as a…

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The large number of antennas in massive MIMO systems allows the base station to communicate with multiple users at the same time and frequency resource with multi-user beamforming. However, highly correlated user channels could drastically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Qing An , Santiago Segarra , Chris Dick , Ashutosh Sabharwal , Rahman Doost-Mohammady

In this paper, we consider the following dynamic fair allocation problem: Given a sequence of job arrivals and departures, the goal is to maintain an approximately fair allocation of the resource against a target fair allocation policy,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Sungjin Im , Benjamin Moseley , Kamesh Munagala , Kirk Pruhs

We consider a multi-agent resource allocation setting that models the assignment of papers to reviewers. A recurring issue in allocation problems is the compatibility of welfare/efficiency and fairness. Given an oracle to find a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Haris Aziz , Xin Huang , Nicholas Mattei , Erel Segal-Halevi

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) has become central to aligning large language models with human values, typically by first learning a reward model from preference data which is then used to update the model with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Keertana Chidambaram , Karthik Vinay Seetharaman , Vasilis Syrgkanis

We consider fair resource allocation in sequential decision-making environments modeled as weakly coupled Markov decision processes, where resource constraints couple the action spaces of $N$ sub-Markov decision processes (sub-MDPs) that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Xiaohui Tu , Yossiri Adulyasak , Nima Akbarzadeh , Erick Delage

The problem of fairly allocating a set of indivisible items is a well-known challenge in the field of (computational) social choice. In this scenario, there is a fundamental incompatibility between notions of fairness (such as envy-freeness…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Ayumi Igarashi , Martin Lackner , Oliviero Nardi , Arianna Novaro

This work proposes a novel framework to dynamically and effectively manage and allocate different types of resources for Metaverse applications, which are forecasted to demand massive resources of various types that have never been seen…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Nam H. Chu , Diep N. Nguyen , Dinh Thai Hoang , Khoa T. Phan , Eryk Dutkiewicz , Dusit Niyato , Tao Shu

Allocating scarce resources among agents to maximize global utility is, in general, computationally challenging. We focus on problems where resources enable agents to execute actions in stochastic environments, modeled as Markov decision…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2011-10-13 D. A. Dolgov , E. H. Durfee

As we all know, users and item-providers are two main parties of participants in recommender systems. However, most existing research efforts on recommendation were focused on better serving users and overlooked the purpose of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Qiang Dong , Shuang-Shuang Xie , Wen-Jun Li

Motivated by real-world applications such as rental and cloud computing services, we investigate pricing for reusable resources. We consider a system where a single resource with a fixed number of identical copies serves customers with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Santiago R. Balseiro , Will Ma , Wenxin Zhang

Fog computing is a promising computing paradigm in which IoT data can be processed near the edge to support time-sensitive applications. However, the availability of the resources in the computation device is not stable since they may not…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Ranesh Kumar Naha , Saurabh Garg

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) has become central to aligning large language models with human values, typically by first learning a reward model from preference data which is then used to update the model with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Keertana Chidambaram , Karthik Vinary Seetharaman , Vasilis Syrgkanis

The theory of two-sided matching has been extensively developed and applied to many real-life application domains. As the theory has been applied to increasingly diverse types of environments, researchers and practitioners have encountered…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Sung-Ho Cho , Kei Kimura , Kiki Liu , Kwei-guu Liu , Zhengjie Liu , Zhaohong Sun , Kentaro Yahiro , Makoto Yokoo

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

The notion of \emph{envy-freeness} is a natural and intuitive fairness requirement in resource allocation. With indivisible goods, such fair allocations are unfortunately not guaranteed to exist. Classical works have avoided this issue by…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Hiromichi Goko , Ayumi Igarashi , Yasushi Kawase , Kazuhisa Makino , Hanna Sumita , Akihisa Tamura , Yu Yokoi , Makoto Yokoo

We study the trade-off between envy and inefficiency in repeated resource allocation settings with stochastic replenishments, motivated by real-world systems such as food banks and medical supply chains. Specifically, we consider a model in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Chido Onyeze , Sean R. Sinclair , Chamsi Hssaine , Siddhartha Banerjee

The classic fair division problems assume the resources to be allocated are either divisible or indivisible, or contain a mixture of both, but the agents always have a predetermined and uncontroversial agreement on the (in)divisibility of…

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