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When allocating indivisible resources or tasks, an envy-free allocation or equitable allocation may not exist. We present a sufficient condition and an algorithm to achieve envy-freeness and equitability when monetary transfers are allowed.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Haris Aziz

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

The classic house allocation problem involves assigning $m$ houses to $n$ agents based on their utility functions, ensuring each agent receives exactly one house. A key criterion in these problems is satisfying fairness constraints such as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Sijia Dai , Yankai Chen , Xiaowei Wu , Yicheng Xu , Yong Zhang

This paper is merged with arXiv:2107.08965v2. We refer the reader to the full and updated version. We study the problem of allocating a set of indivisible goods among agents with 2-value additive valuations. Our goal is to find an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Hannaneh Akrami , Bhaskar Ray Chaudhury , Kurt Mehlhorn , Golnoosh Shahkarami , Quentin Vermande

We study the fair allocation of indivisible goods among agents with identical, additive valuations but individual budget constraints. Here, the indivisible goods--each with a specific size and value--need to be allocated such that the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Siddharth Barman , Arindam Khan , Sudarshan Shyam , K. V. N. Sreenivas

We consider the fair division problem of indivisible items. It is well-known that an envy-free allocation may not exist, and a relaxed version of envy-freeness, envy-freeness up to one item (EF1), has been widely considered. In an EF1…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Xiaolin Bu , Zihao Li , Shengxin Liu , Jiaxin Song , Biaoshuai Tao

We study the problem of allocating a set of indivisible goods among a set of agents with \emph{2-value additive valuations}. In this setting, each good is valued either $1$ or $p/q$, for some fixed co-prime numbers $p,q\in \mathbb{N}$ such…

We study the problem of allocating indivisible goods among agents in a fair and economically efficient manner. In this context, the Nash social welfare-defined as the geometric mean of agents' valuations for their assigned bundles-stands as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Siddharth Barman , Paritosh Verma

We study the problem of allocating indivisible goods among agents in a fair manner. While envy-free allocations of indivisible goods are not guaranteed to exist, envy-freeness can be achieved by additionally providing some subsidy to the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Siddharth Barman , Anand Krishna , Y. Narahari , Soumyarup Sadhukhan

We study the problem of allocating indivisible goods among agents that have an identical subadditive valuation over the goods. The extent of fairness and efficiency of allocations is measured by the generalized means of the values that the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Siddharth Barman , Ranjani G. Sundaram

In fair division problems, the notion of price of fairness measures the loss in welfare due to a fairness constraint. Prior work on the price of fairness has focused primarily on envy-freeness up to one good (EF1) as the fairness…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Umang Bhaskar , Neeldhara Misra , Aditi Sethia , Rohit Vaish

We study the problem of selection in the context of Bayesian persuasion. We are given multiple agents with hidden values (or quality scores), to whom resources must be allocated by a welfare-maximizing decision-maker. An intermediary with…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yannan Bai , Kamesh Munagala , Yiheng Shen , Davidson Zhu

A combinatorial market consists of a set of indivisible items and a set of agents, where each agent has a valuation function that specifies for each subset of items its value for the given agent. From an optimization point of view, the goal…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Kristóf Bérczi , Laura Codazzi , Julian Golak , Alexander Grigoriev

We study the problem of allocating indivisible goods among strategic agents. We focus on settings wherein monetary transfers are not available and each agent's private valuation is a submodular function with binary marginals, i.e., the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Siddharth Barman , Paritosh Verma

We study the problem of designing truthful and fair mechanisms when allocating a mixture of divisible and indivisible goods. We first show that there does not exist an EFM (envy-free for mixed goods) and truthful mechanism in general. This…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Zihao Li , Shengxin Liu , Xinhang Lu , Biaoshuai Tao

A major problem in fair division is how to allocate a set of indivisible resources among agents fairly and efficiently. The goal of this work is to characterize the tradeoffs between two well-studied measures of fairness and efficiency --…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Michal Feldman , Simon Mauras , Tomasz Ponitka

Fair division of indivisible goods is a very well-studied problem. The goal of this problem is to distribute $m$ goods to $n$ agents in a "fair" manner, where every agent has a valuation for each subset of goods. We assume general…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Bhaskar Ray Chaudhury , Tellikepalli Kavitha , Kurt Mehlhorn , Alkmini Sgouritsa

We consider the problem of allocating a set on indivisible items to players with private preferences in an efficient and fair way. We focus on valuations that have dichotomous marginals, in which the added value of any item to a set is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Moshe Babaioff , Tomer Ezra , Uriel Feige

Fair division mechanisms for indivisible goods require agent orderings to deterministically select one allocation when running the algorithm in practice. We introduce position envy-freeness up to one good (PEF1) as a fairness criterion for…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Ryoga Mahara , Ryuhei Mizutani , Taihei Oki , Tomohiko Yokoyama

We study fair allocation of indivisible goods among additive agents with feasibility constraints. In these settings, every agent is restricted to get a bundle among a specified set of feasible bundles. Such scenarios have been of great…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Amitay Dror , Michal Feldman , Erel Segal-Halevi