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We study fair allocation of indivisible public goods subject to cardinality (budget) constraints. In this model, we have n agents and m available public goods, and we want to select $k \leq m$ goods in a fair and efficient manner. We first…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Jugal Garg , Pooja Kulkarni , Aniket Murhekar

We consider the problem of fair allocation of indivisible goods to $n$ agents, with no transfers. When agents have equal entitlements, the well established notion of the maximin share (MMS) serves as an attractive fairness criterion, where…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Moshe Babaioff , Tomer Ezra , Uriel Feige

We study the problem of fair allocation of indivisible items when agents have ternary additive valuations -- each agent values each item at some fixed integer values $a$, $b$, or $c$ that are common to all agents. The notions of fairness we…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Zack Fitzsimmons , Vignesh Viswanathan , Yair Zick

The impossibility theorem of fairness is a foundational result in the algorithmic fairness literature. It states that outside of special cases, one cannot exactly and simultaneously satisfy all three common and intuitive definitions of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Brian Hsu , Rahul Mazumder , Preetam Nandy , Kinjal Basu

In several socioeconomic-critical decision-making settings, such as fair resource allocation, climate policy, or AI alignment, multiple principals interact within a common arena. While it is well established that these principals may have…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Sarvin Bahmani , Soumyajit Paul , Sven Schewe , Shadi Tasdighi Kalat , Ashutosh Trivedi

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 consider the fundamental problem of allocating a set of indivisible goods among strategic agents with additive valuation functions. It is well known that, in the absence of monetary transfers, Pareto efficient and truthful rules are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Alexandros Psomas , Paritosh Verma

In the committee voting setting, a subset of $k$ alternatives is selected based on the preferences of voters. In this paper, our goal is to efficiently compute $\textit{ex-ante}$ fair probability distributions over committees. We introduce…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Mashbat Suzuki , Jeremy Vollen

Many classical social preference (multiwinner social choice) correspondences are resolute only when two alternatives and an odd number of individuals are considered. Thus, they generally admit several resolute refinements, each of them…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-09 Daniela Bubboloni , Michele Gori

We analyze the run-time complexity of computing allocations that are both fair and maximize the utilitarian social welfare, defined as the sum of agents' utilities. We focus on two tractable fairness concepts: envy-freeness up to one item…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Haris Aziz , Xin Huang , Nicholas Mattei , Erel Segal-Halevi

Fair allocation of indivisible goods studies allocating $m$ goods among $n$ agents in a fair manner. While fairness is a fundamental requirement in many real-world applications, it often conflicts with (economic) efficiency. This raises a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Xiaolin Bu , Zihao Li , Shengxin Liu , Jiaxin Song , Biaoshuai Tao

This note characterizes every qualified majority voting rule in environments with just two alternatives through anonymity, responsiveness, and q-neutrality. Crucially, the latter imposes independence of the labels of the alternatives if and…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-11-20 Héctor Hermida-Rivera

Multi-winner approval-based voting has received considerable attention recently. A voting rule in this setting takes as input ballots in which each agent approves a subset of the available alternatives and outputs a committee of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Ioannis Caragiannis , Rob LeGrand , Evangelos Markakis , Emmanouil Pountourakis

May's classical theorem states that in a single-winner choose-one voting system with just two candidates, majority rule is the only social choice function satisfying anonimity, neutrality and positive responsiveness axiom. Anonimity and…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2023-10-23 Mateusz Krukowski

Building fair recommender systems is a challenging and crucial area of study due to its immense impact on society. We extended the definitions of two commonly accepted notions of fairness to recommender systems, namely equality of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-12 Preetam Nandy , Cyrus Diciccio , Divya Venugopalan , Heloise Logan , Kinjal Basu , Noureddine El Karoui

We study the fair allocation of indivisible items to $n$ agents to maximize the utilitarian social welfare, where the fairness criterion is envy-free up to one item and there are only two different utility functions shared by the agents. We…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Jiaxuan Ma , Yong Chen , Guangting Chen , Mingyang Gong , Guohui Lin , An Zhang

In the problem of allocating a single non-disposable commodity among agents whose preferences are single-peaked, we study a weakening of strategy-proofness called not obvious manipulability (NOM). If agents are cognitively limited, then NOM…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-04-25 R. Pablo Arribillaga , Agustin G. Bonifacio

In this paper, I introduce a novel stability axiom for stochastic voting rules, called self-equivalence, by which a society considering whether to replace its voting rule using itself will choose not to do so. I then show that under the…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-05-14 Héctor Hermida-Rivera

A voting rule decides on a probability distribution over a set of m alternatives, based on rankings of those alternatives provided by agents. We assume that agents have cardinal utility functions over the alternatives, but voting rules have…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Soroush Ebadian , Anson Kahng , Dominik Peters , Nisarg Shah

Proportional representation (PR) is often discussed in voting settings as a major desideratum. For the past century or so, it is common both in practice and in the academic literature to jump to single transferable vote (STV) as the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Haris Aziz , Barton Lee