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The fair division of indivisible goods is not only a subject of theoretical research, but also an important problem in practice, with solutions being offered on several online platforms. Little is known, however, about the characteristics…

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Clustering is a fundamental unsupervised learning problem where a dataset is partitioned into clusters that consist of nearby points in a metric space. A recent variant, fair clustering, associates a color with each point representing its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Seyed A. Esmaeili , Brian Brubach , Aravind Srinivasan , John P. Dickerson

Query complexity is a model of computation in which we have to compute a function $f(x_1, \ldots, x_N)$ of variables $x_i$ which can be accessed via queries. The complexity of an algorithm is measured by the number of queries that it makes.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-19 Andris Ambainis

We explore the fundamental problem of sorting through the lens of learning-augmented algorithms, where algorithms can leverage possibly erroneous predictions to improve their efficiency. We consider two different settings: In the first…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Xingjian Bai , Christian Coester

Motivated by recent best case analyses for some sorting algorithms and based on the type of complexity we partition the algorithms into two classes: homogeneous and non homogeneous algorithms. Although both classes contain algorithms with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-08-23 Ioannis Paparrizos

Algorithmic decision making systems are ubiquitous across a wide variety of online as well as offline services. These systems rely on complex learning methods and vast amounts of data to optimize the service functionality, satisfaction of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-27 Muhammad Bilal Zafar , Isabel Valera , Manuel Gomez Rodriguez , Krishna P. Gummadi

A comparison of four fair division algorithms performed on real data from the spliddit website. The comparison was made on the sum of agent's utilities, and the minimum utility for an agent in an allocation.

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Liad Nagi , Moriya Elgrabli

The purpose of this paper is concerned with the approximate solution of split equality problems. We introduce two types of algorithms and a new self-adaptive stepsize without prior knowledge of operator norms. The corresponding strong…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Songxiao Li , Bing Tan , Zheng Zhou

Clustering is an unsupervised machine learning task that consists of identifying groups of similar objects. It has numerous applications and is increasingly used in fairness-sensitive domains where objects represent individuals, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Claudio Mantuano , Manuel Kammermann , Philipp Baumann

We study the proportional chore division problem where a protocol wants to divide an undesirable object, called chore, among $n$ different players. The goal is to find an allocation such that the cost of the chore assigned to each player be…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Alireza Farhadi , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi

We offer multiplication method for factoring big natural numbers which extends the group of the Fermat's and Lehman's factorization algorithms and has run-time complexity $O(n^{1/3})$. This paper is argued the finiteness of proposed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Igor Nesiolovskiy , Artem Nesiolovskiy

A challenge in fair algorithm design is that, while there are compelling notions of individual fairness, these notions typically do not satisfy desirable composition properties, and downstream applications based on fair classifiers might…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Konstantina Bairaktari , Paul Langton , Huy L. Nguyen , Niklas Smedemark-Margulies , Jonathan Ullman

We consider an issue of much current concern: could fairness, an issue that is already difficult to guarantee, worsen when algorithms run much of our lives? We consider this in the context of resource-allocation problems, we show that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-26 David G. Harris , Thomas Pensyl , Aravind Srinivasan , Khoa Trinh

Predictive algorithms are now used to help distribute a large share of our society's resources and sanctions, such as healthcare, loans, criminal detentions, and tax audits. Under the right circumstances, these algorithms can improve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Alex Chohlas-Wood , Madison Coots , Sharad Goel , Julian Nyarko

Considering the set cover problem, by modifying the approach that gives a logarithmic approximation guarantee for the greedy algorithm, we obtain an estimation of the greedy algorithm's accuracy for a particular input. We compare the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Alexander Prolubnikov

We present a systematic approach for achieving fairness in a binary classification setting. While we focus on two well-known quantitative definitions of fairness, our approach encompasses many other previously studied definitions as special…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Alekh Agarwal , Alina Beygelzimer , Miroslav Dudík , John Langford , Hanna Wallach

When trying to solve a computational problem, we are often faced with a choice between algorithms that are guaranteed to return the right answer but differ in their runtime distributions (e.g., SAT solvers, sorting algorithms). This paper…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Devon R. Graham , Kevin Leyton-Brown , Tim Roughgarden

We study the classical rent division problem, where $n$ agents must allocate $n$ indivisible rooms and split a fixed total rent $R$. The goal is to compute an envy-free (EF) allocation, where no agent prefers another agent's room and rent…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Rohith Reddy Gangam , Shayan Taherijam , Vijay V. Vazirani

We consider stochastic settings for clustering, and develop provably-good approximation algorithms for a number of these notions. These algorithms yield better approximation ratios compared to the usual deterministic clustering setting.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-13 David G. Harris , Shi Li , Thomas Pensyl , Aravind Srinivasan , Khoa Trinh

In many developing countries, the total electricity demand is larger than the limited generation capacity of power stations. Many countries adopt the common practice of routine load shedding - disconnecting entire regions from the power…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Dinesh Kumar Baghel , Vadim E. Levit , Erel Segal-Halevi