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We obtain essentially tight upper bounds for a strengthened notion of regret in the stochastic linear bandits framework. The strengthening -- referred to as Nash regret -- is defined as the difference between the (a priori unknown) optimum…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Ayush Sawarni , Soumybrata Pal , Siddharth Barman

We study the problem of allocating a set of indivisible goods among a set of agents in a fair and efficient manner. An allocation is said to be fair if it is envy-free up to one good (EF1), which means that each agent prefers its own bundle…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Siddharth Barman , Sanath Kumar Krishnamurthy , Rohit Vaish

We consider the problem of online allocation (matching and assortments) of reusable resources where customers arrive sequentially in an adversarial fashion and allocated resources are used or rented for a stochastic duration that is drawn…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Vineet Goyal , Garud Iyengar , Rajan Udwani

We study the problem of allocating a set of indivisible items to agents with supermodular utilities to maximize the Nash social welfare. We show that the problem is NP-hard for any approximation factor.

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Alon Bebchuk

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

We study linear Fisher markets with satiation. In these markets, sellers have earning limits and buyers have utility limits. Beyond natural applications in economics, these markets arise in the context of maximizing Nash social welfare when…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Jugal Garg , Martin Hoefer , Kurt Mehlhorn

In this paper we introduce a capacity allocation game which models the problem of maximizing network utility from the perspective of distributed noncooperative agents. Motivated by the idea of self-managed networks, in the developed…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-23 Dariusz Gcasior , Maciej Drwal

We consider the problem of online multi-agent Nash social welfare (NSW) maximization. While previous works of Hossain et al. [2021], Jones et al. [2023] study similar problems in stochastic multi-agent multi-armed bandits and show that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Mengxiao Zhang , Ramiro Deo-Campo Vuong , Haipeng Luo

Efficient allocation and use of limited resources are fundamental to advancing collective welfare and achieving long-term societal sustainability. This challenge involves not only how policymakers distribute scarce resources among…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Juyi Li , Xiaoqun Wu , Qi Su

We address the generalized Nash equilibrium seeking problem in a partial-decision information scenario, where each agent can only exchange information with some neighbors, although its cost function possibly depends on the strategies of all…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-14 Mattia Bianchi , Giuseppe Belgioioso , Sergio Grammatico

In this paper, we consider $n$ agents who invest in a general financial market that is free of arbitrage and complete. The aim of each investor is to maximize her expected utility while ensuring, with a specified probability, that her…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Nicole Bäuerle , Tamara Göll

Additively separable hedonic games (ASHGs) are a prominent model of coalition formation where agents' preferences are derived from their individual valuations of peers. While social welfare maximization in ASHGs has traditionally focused…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Marta Pagano , Alexander Schlenga

Inspired by Internet ad auction applications, we study the problem of allocating a single item via an auction when bidders place very different values on the item. We formulate this as the problem of prior-free auction and focus on…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2009-09-30 Vahab Mirrokni , S. Muthukrishnan , Uri Nadav

This work examines a stochastic formulation of the generalized Nash equilibrium problem (GNEP) where agents are subject to randomness in the environment of unknown statistical distribution. We focus on fully-distributed online learning by…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Chung-Kai Yu , Mihaela van der Schaar , Ali H. Sayed

Suppose that a set of $m$ tasks are to be shared as equally as possible amongst a set of $n$ resources. A game-theoretic mechanism to find a suitable allocation is to associate each task with a ``selfish agent'', and require each agent to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Petra Berenbrink , Tom Friedetzky , Leslie Ann Goldberg , Paul Goldberg , Zengjian Hu , Russell Martin

In many situations, several agents need to make a sequence of decisions. For example, a group of workers that needs to decide where their weekly meeting should take place. In such situations, a decision-making mechanism must consider…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Ido Kahana , Noam Hazon

We present a constant-factor approximation algorithm for the Nash social welfare maximization problem with subadditive valuations accessible via demand queries. More generally, we propose a template for NSW optimization by solving a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Shahar Dobzinski , Wenzheng Li , Aviad Rubinstein , Jan Vondrak

We consider the problem of fairly allocating a sequence of indivisible items that arrive online in an arbitrary order to a group of n agents with additive normalized valuation functions. We consider both the allocation of goods and chores…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Shengwei Zhou , Rufan Bai , Xiaowei Wu

We introduce a strategic behavior in reinsurance bilateral transactions, where agents choose the risk preferences they will appear to have in the transaction. Within a wide class of risk measures, we identify agents' strategic choices to a…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2020-03-19 Michail Anthropelos , Tim J. Boonen

We consider a network where strategic agents, who are contesting for allocation of resources, are divided into fixed groups. The network control protocol is such that within each group agents get to share the resource and across groups they…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Abhinav Sinha , Achilleas Anastasopoulos