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Fair resource allocation is an important problem in many real-world scenarios, where resources such as goods and chores must be allocated among agents. In this survey, we delve into the intricacies of fair allocation, focusing specifically…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Shaily Mishra , Manisha Padala , Sujit Gujar

Maximin share (MMS) allocations are a popular relaxation of envy-free allocations that have received wide attention in the fair division of indivisible items. Although MMS allocations of goods can fail to exist, previous work has found…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Kevin Hsu

We study the problem of allocating a group of indivisible chores among agents while each chore has a binary marginal. We focus on the fairness criteria of envy-freeness up to any item (EFX) and investigate the existence of EFX allocations.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Biaoshuai Tao , Xiaowei Wu , Ziqi Yu , Shengwei Zhou

In fair division of indivisible goods, using sequences of sincere choices (or picking sequences) is a natural way to allocate the objects. The idea is as follows: at each stage, a designated agent picks one object among those that remain.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Aurélie Beynier , Sylvain Bouveret , Michel Lemaître , Nicolas Maudet , Simon Rey

In this paper, we study the allocation of indivisible chores and consider the problem of finding a fair allocation that is approximately efficient. We shift our attention from the multiplicative approximation to the additive one. Our…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Bo Li , Ankang Sun , Shiji Xing

We study the problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods and chores under category constraints. Specifically, there are $n$ agents and $m$ indivisible items which are partitioned into categories with associated capacities. An allocation…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Ayumi Igarashi , Frédéric Meunier

The paper considers fair allocation of indivisible nondisposable items that generate disutility (chores). We assume that these items are placed in the vertices of a graph and each agent's share has to form a connected subgraph of this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Sylvain Bouveret , Katarína Cechlárová , Julien Lesca

We study fair distribution of a collection of m indivisible goods among a group of n agents, using the widely recognized fairness principles of Maximin Share (MMS) and Any Price Share (APS). These principles have undergone thorough…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Chandra Chekuri , Pooja Kulkarni , Rucha Kulkarni , Ruta Mehta

We study fair division of indivisible goods under the maximin share (MMS) fairness criterion in settings where agents are grouped into a small number of types, with agents within each type having identical valuations. For the special case…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Jugal Garg , Parnian Shahkar

We study the problem of allocating $m$ indivisible goods among $n$ agents, where each agent's valuation is fractionally subadditive (XOS). With respect to AnyPrice Share (APS) fairness, Kulkarni et al. (2024) showed that, when agents have…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Ziheng Chen , Bo Li , Zihan Luo , Jialin Zhang

We study fair allocation of indivisible goods to agents with unequal entitlements. Fair allocation has been the subject of many studies in both divisible and indivisible settings. Our emphasis is on the case where the goods are indivisible…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Alireza Farhadi , Mohammad Ghodsi , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Sebastien Lahaie , David Pennock , Masoud Seddighin , Saeed Seddighin , Hadi Yami

Ensuring efficiency and envy-freeness in allocating indivisible goods without money often requires randomization. However, existing combinatorial assignment mechanisms (for applications such as course allocation, food banks, and refugee…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-10-03 Thành Nguyen , Alexander Teytelboym , Shai Vardi

We consider the problem of online assignment of indivisible chores under \MMS\ criteria. The previous work proves that any deterministic online algorithm for chore division has a competitive ratio of at least 2. In this work, we improve…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Masoud Seddighin , Saeed Seddighin

The maximin share (MMS) guarantee is a desirable fairness notion for allocating indivisible goods. While MMS allocations do not always exist, several approximation techniques have been developed to ensure that all agents receive a fraction…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Hadi Hosseini , Andrew Searns

We study fair allocation of indivisible goods and chores among agents with \emph{lexicographic} preferences -- a subclass of additive valuations. In sharp contrast to the goods-only setting, we show that an allocation satisfying…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Hadi Hosseini , Sujoy Sikdar , Rohit Vaish , Lirong Xia

The classic fair division problems assume the resources to be allocated are either divisible or indivisible, or contain a mixture of both, but the agents always have a predetermined and uncontroversial agreement on the (in)divisibility of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Xiaohui Bei , Shengxin Liu , Xinhang Lu

We consider the computation for allocations of indivisible chores that are approximately EFX and Pareto optimal (PO). Recently, Garg et al. (2024) show the existence of $3$-EFX and PO allocations for bi-valued instances, where the cost of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Zehan Lin , Xiaowei Wu , Shengwei Zhou

We consider the problem of fairly and efficiently allocating indivisible items (goods or bads) under capacity constraints. In this setting, we are given a set of categorized items. Each category has a capacity constraint (the same for all…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Hila Shoshan , Erel Segal-Halevi , Noam Hazon

We study the problem of fairly allocating $m$ indivisible goods to $n$ agents, where agents may have different preferences over the goods. In the traditional setting, agents' valuations are provided as inputs to the algorithm. In this…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Xiaolin Bu , Zihao Li , Shengxin Liu , Jiaxin Song , Biaoshuai Tao

We study the assignment problem of objects to agents with heterogeneous preferences under distributional constraints. Each agent is associated with a publicly known type and has a private ordinal ranking over objects. We are interested in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Itai Ashlagi , Amin Saberi , Ali Shameli