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A set of objects is to be divided fairly among agents with different tastes, modeled by additive utility-functions. If we consider the objects as indivisible, many instances of the decision problem: ``Is there a fair division of the objects…

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We investigate a portfolio selection problem involving multi competitive agents, each exhibiting mean-variance preferences. Unlike classical models, each agent's utility is determined by their relative wealth compared to the average wealth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Guojiang Shao , Zuo Quan Xu , Qi Zhang

We study the problem of allocating items to agents with submodular valuations with the goal of maximizing the weighted Nash social welfare (NSW). The best-known results for unweighted and weighted objectives are the $(4+\epsilon)$…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Xiaohui Bei , Yuda Feng , Yang Hu , Shi Li , Ruilong Zhang

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

I study the welfare-maximizing allocation of heterogeneous goods when monetary transfers are prohibited. Agents have private values, and the designer chooses a mechanism subject to incentive compatibility and aggregate supply constraints. I…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-05-26 Filip Tokarski

Fair division of indivisible goods is a central challenge in artificial intelligence. For many prominent fairness criteria including envy-freeness (EF) or proportionality (PROP), no allocations satisfying these criteria might exist. Two…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Martin Hoefer , Marco Schmalhofer , Giovanna Varricchio

We study the problem of designing a two-sided market (double auction) to maximize the gains from trade (social welfare) under the constraints of (dominant-strategy) incentive compatibility and budget-balance. Our goal is to do so for an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Moshe Babaioff , Amitai Frey , Noam Nisan

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

In approval-based budget division, the task is to allocate a divisible resource to the candidates based on the voters' approval preferences over the candidates. For this setting, Brandl et al. [2021] have shown that no distribution rule can…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Haris Aziz , Patrick Lederer , Jeremy Vollen

One of the important yet insufficiently studied subjects in fair allocation is the externality effect among agents. For a resource allocation problem, externalities imply that a bundle allocated to an agent may affect the utilities of other…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Mohammad Ghodsi , Hamed Saleh , Masoud Seddighin

Consider a barter exchange problem over a finite set of agents, where each agent owns an item and is also associated with a (privately known) wish list of items belonging to the other agents. An outcome of the problem is a (re)allocation of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Yuval Emek , Matan-El Shpiro

We study markets of indivisible items in which price-based (Walrasian) equilibria often do not exist due to the discrete non-convex setting. Instead we consider Nash equilibria of the market viewed as a game, where players bid for items,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-22 Avinatan Hassidim , Haim Kaplan , Yishay Mansour , Noam Nisan

The maximin share (MMS) guarantee is a desirable fairness notion for allocating indivisible goods. While MMS allocations do not always exist, several approximation techniques have been developed to ensure that all agents receive a fraction…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Hadi Hosseini , Andrew Searns

We study a simple problem of allocating common-value goods. The designer seeks to allocate the goods to as many unit-demand agents as possible without monetary transfers, while agents, who possess partial private information about the…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-04-22 Hiroto Sato , Ryo Shirakawa

We study the problem of fairly allocating a set of $m$ goods among $n$ agents in the asymptotic setting, where each item's value for each agent is drawn from an underlying joint distribution. Prior works have shown that if this distribution…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Jugal Garg , Vishnu V. Narayan , Yuang Eric Shen

We consider the problem of assigning indivisible chores to agents with different entitlements in the maximin share value (\MMS) context. While constant-\MMS\ allocations/assignments are guaranteed to exist for both goods and chores in the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Masoud Seddighin , Saeed Seddighin

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

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 study the problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods between groups of agents using the recently introduced relaxations of envy-freeness. We consider the existence of fair allocations under different assumptions on the valuations of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Maria Kyropoulou , Warut Suksompong , Alexandros A. Voudouris

Given an initial resource allocation, where some agents may envy others or where a different distribution of resources might lead to higher social welfare, our goal is to improve the allocation without reassigning resources. We consider a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Robert Bredereck , Andrzej Kaczmarczyk , Junjie Luo , Rolf Niedermeier , Florian Sachse