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Polarization is a major concern for a well-functioning society. Often, mass polarization of a society is driven by polarizing political representation, even when the latter is easily preventable. The existing computational social choice…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Chris Dong , Martin Bullinger , Tomasz Wąs , Larry Birnbaum , Edith Elkind

Multiwinner voting rules can be used to select a fixed-size committee from a larger set of candidates. We consider approval-based committee rules, which allow voters to approve or disapprove candidates. In this setting, several voting rules…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Dominik Peters

We study approval-based committee voting from a novel perspective. While extant work largely centers around proportional representation of the voters, we shift our focus to the candidates while preserving proportionality. Intuitively,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Gregory Kehne , Ulrike Schmidt-Kraepelin , Krzysztof Sornat

Core-selecting combinatorial auctions (CAs) restrict the auction result in the core such that no coalitions could improve their utilities by engaging in collusion. The minimum-revenue-core (MRC) rule is a widely used core-selecting payment…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Hao Cheng , Shufeng Kong , Yanchen Deng , Caihua Liu , Xiaohu Wu , Bo An , Chongjun Wang

We focus on the strategyproofness of voting systems where voters must choose a number of options among several possibilities. These systems include those that are used for Participatory Budgeting, where we organize an election to determine…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Johanne Cohen , Daniel Cordeiro , Valentin Dardilhac , Victor Glaser

The study of fair algorithms has become mainstream in machine learning and artificial intelligence due to its increasing demand in dealing with biases and discrimination. Along this line, researchers have considered fair versions of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Sayan Bandyapadhyay , Fedor V. Fomin , Tanmay Inamdar , Kirill Simonov

The rapid deployment of AI systems in high-stakes domains, including those classified as high-risk under the The EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689), has intensified the need for reliable compliance auditing. For binary classifiers,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Valentin Lafargue , Adriana Laurindo Monteiro , Emmanuelle Claeys , Laurent Risser , Jean-Michel Loubes

Lindahl equilibrium is a solution concept for allocating a fixed budget across several divisible public goods. It always lies in the weak core, meaning that the equilibrium allocation satisfies desirable stability and proportional fairness…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Christian Kroer , Dominik Peters

Combinatorial auctions (CAs) allow bidders to express complex preferences for bundles of goods being auctioned. However, the behavior of bidders under different payment rules is often unclear. In this paper, we aim to understand how core…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Robin Fritsch , Younjoo Lee , Adrian Meier , Ye Wang , Roger Wattenhofer

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

Motivated by fairness concerns, we study the `portfolio problem': given an optimization problem with set $D$ of feasible solutions, a class $\mathbf{C}$ of fairness objective functions on $D$, and an approximation factor $\alpha \ge 1$, a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Swati Gupta , Jai Moondra , Mohit Singh

Cohesion plays a crucial role in achieving collective goals, promoting cooperation and trust, and improving efficiency within social groups. To gain deeper insights into the dynamics of group cohesion, we have extended our previous model of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-06-27 Hao Yu , Youjin Wen , Zhehang Xu , Jianlin Zhang , Fanyuan Meng

We study the following multiagent variant of the knapsack problem. We are given a set of items, a set of voters, and a value of the budget; each item is endowed with a cost and each voter assigns to each item a certain value. The goal is to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Till Fluschnik , Piotr Skowron , Mervin Triphaus , Kai Wilker

The issue of fairness in AI arises from discriminatory practices in applications like job recommendations and risk assessments, emphasising the need for algorithms that do not discriminate based on group characteristics. This concern is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Fengjuan Jia , Mengxiao Zhang , Jiamou Liu , Bakh Khoussainov

Rankings on online platforms help their end-users find the relevant information -- people, news, media, and products -- quickly. Fair ranking tasks, which ask to rank a set of items to maximize utility subject to satisfying group-fairness…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Sruthi Gorantla , Anay Mehrotra , Amit Deshpande , Anand Louis

In fairness audits, a standard objective is to detect whether a given algorithm performs substantially differently between subgroups. Properly powering the statistical analysis of such audits is crucial for obtaining informative fairness…

Applications · Statistics 2023-12-11 Harvineet Singh , Fan Xia , Mi-Ok Kim , Romain Pirracchio , Rumi Chunara , Jean Feng

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

Shortlisting of candidates--selecting a group of "best" candidates--is a special case of multiwinner elections. We provide the first in-depth study of the computational complexity of strategic voting for shortlisting based on the perhaps…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Robert Bredereck , Andrzej Kaczmarczyk , Rolf Niedermeier

Stability is crucial in matching markets, yet in many real-world settings - from hospital residency allocations to roommate assignments - full stability is either impossible to achieve or can come at the cost of leaving many agents…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Frederik Glitzner , David Manlove

We survey the design of elections that are resilient to attempted interference by third parties. For example, suppose votes have been cast in an election between two candidates, and then each vote is randomly changed with a small…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-07-13 Steven Heilman