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Online bipartite matching, where agents are known in advance but items arrive sequentially and must be irrevocably assigned, is fundamental to problems ranging from ride-sharing to online advertising. When agents belong to classes such as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Sander Borst , Max Springer

The interval scheduling problem is one variant of the scheduling problem. In this paper, we propose a novel variant of the interval scheduling problem, whose definition is as follows: given jobs are specified by their {\em release times},…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Koji M. Kobayashi

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 investigate online algorithms for maximum (weight) independent set on graph classes with bounded inductive independence number like, e.g., interval and disk graphs with applications to, e.g., task scheduling and spectrum allocation. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-07-12 Oliver Göbel , Martin Hoefer , Thomas Kesselheim , Thomas Schleiden , Berthold Vöcking

Increasing concerns about disparate effects of AI have motivated a great deal of work on fair machine learning. Existing works mainly focus on independence- and separation-based measures (e.g., demographic parity, equality of opportunity,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-07 Xianli Zeng , Edgar Dobriban , Guang Cheng

The rise of algorithmic decision-making has created an explosion of research around the fairness of those algorithms. While there are many compelling notions of individual fairness, beginning with the work of Dwork et al., these notions…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Konstantina Bairaktari , Huy Le Nguyen , Jonathan Ullman

Binary decision making classifiers are not fair by default. Fairness requirements are an additional element to the decision making rationale, which is typically driven by maximizing some utility function. In that sense, algorithmic fairness…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Joachim Baumann , Anikó Hannák , Christoph Heitz

There is a rising interest for studying the online benchmark as an alternative of the classical offline benchmark in online stochastic settings. Ezra, Feldman, Gravin, and Tang (SODA 2023) introduced the notion of order-competitive ratio,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Liyan Chen , Nuozhou Sun , Zhihao Gavin Tang

Algorithmic decision-making in high-stakes settings can have profound impacts on individuals and populations. While much prior work studies fairness in static settings, recent results show that enforcing static fairness constraints may…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Shahin Jabbari , Chen Wang

In the assignment problem, a set of items must be allocated to unit-demand agents who express ordinal preferences (rankings) over the items. In the assignment problem with priorities, agents with higher priority are entitled to their…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Zeyu Shen , Zhiyi Wang , Xingyu Zhu , Brandon Fain , Kamesh Munagala

Motivated by applications where a system must remain operational via continual procurement of contracts, we study two online contract selection problems under uncertain prices. At each time step, a price drawn from a known distribution is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Qinge Chi , Sebastian Perez-Salazar

The online bipartite matching problem, extensively studied in the literature, deals with the allocation of online arriving vertices (items) to a predetermined set of offline vertices (agents). However, little attention has been given to the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Shayan Chashm Jahan , Mohammad Sharifi , Suho Shin , Max Springer

In settings such as e-recruitment and online dating, recommendation involves distributing limited opportunities, calling for novel approaches to quantify and enforce fairness. We introduce \emph{inferiority}, a novel (un)fairness measure…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Nan Li , Bo Kang , Jefrey Lijffijt , Tijl De Bie

In critical applications, it is vital for classifiers to defer decision-making to humans. We propose a post-hoc method that makes existing classifiers selectively abstain from predicting certain samples. Our abstaining classifier is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Tongxin Yin , Jean-François Ton , Ruocheng Guo , Yuanshun Yao , Mingyan Liu , Yang Liu

We revisit three fundamental problems in algorithms under uncertainty: the Secretary Problem, Prophet Inequality, and Stochastic Probing, each subject to general downward-closed constraints. When elements have binary values, all three…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Aviad Rubinstein , Sahil Singla

Online contention resolution schemes (OCRSs) were proposed by Feldman, Svensson, and Zenklusen as a generic technique to round a fractional solution in the matroid polytope in an online fashion. It has found applications in several…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Euiwoong Lee , Sahil Singla

There has been much discussion recently about how fairness should be measured or enforced in classification. Individual Fairness [Dwork, Hardt, Pitassi, Reingold, Zemel, 2012], which requires that similar individuals be treated similarly,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Christina Ilvento

Mechanism design in resource allocation studies dividing limited resources among self-interested agents whose satisfaction with the allocation depends on privately held utilities. We consider the problem in a payment-free setting, with the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Sihan Zeng , Sujay Bhatt , Alec Koppel , Sumitra Ganesh

We study the facility location problems where agents are located on a real line and divided into groups based on criteria such as ethnicity or age. Our aim is to design mechanisms to locate a facility to approximately minimize the costs of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Houyu Zhou , Minming Li , Hau Chan

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