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We study several fairness notions in allocating indivisible chores (i.e., items with non-positive values) to agents who have additive and submodular cost functions. The fairness criteria we are concern with are envy-free up to any item…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Ankang Sun , Bo Chen , Xuan Vinh Doan

We consider a multi-agent resource allocation setting in which an agent's utility may decrease or increase when an item is allocated. We take the group envy-freeness concept that is well-established in the literature and present stronger…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Haris Aziz , Simon Rey

We study fair multi-objective reinforcement learning in which an agent must learn a policy that simultaneously achieves high reward on multiple dimensions of a vector-valued reward. Motivated by the fair resource allocation literature, we…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Zimeng Fan , Nianli Peng , Muhang Tian , Brandon Fain

We investigate the efficiency of fair allocations of indivisible goods using the well-studied price of fairness concept. Previous work has focused on classical fairness notions such as envy-freeness, proportionality, and equitability.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Xiaohui Bei , Xinhang Lu , Pasin Manurangsi , Warut Suksompong

We consider the problem of allocating divisible items among multiple agents, and consider the setting where any agent is allowed to introduce diversity constraints on the items they are allocated. We motivate this via settings where the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Zeyu Shen , Lodewijk Gelauff , Ashish Goel , Aleksandra Korolova , Kamesh Munagala

We study the problem of efficiently and fairly allocating a set of indivisible goods among agents with identical and additive valuations for the goods. The objective is to maximize the Nash social welfare, which is the geometric mean of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Asei Inoue , Yusuke Kobayashi

The maximization of Nash welfare, which equals the geometric mean of agents' utilities, is widely studied because it balances efficiency and fairness in resource allocation problems. Banerjee, Gkatzelis, Gorokh, and Jin (2022) recently…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Zhiyi Huang , Minming Li , Xinkai Shu , Tianze Wei

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

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

The maximum Nash social welfare (NSW) -- which maximizes the geometric mean of agents' utilities -- is a fundamental solution concept with remarkable fairness and efficiency guarantees. The computational aspects of NSW have been extensively…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Pallavi Jain , Rohit Vaish

We study the fundamental problem of allocating indivisible goods to agents with additive preferences. We consider eliciting from each agent only a ranking of her $k$ most preferred goods instead of her full cardinal valuations. We…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Daniel Halpern , Nisarg Shah

We study the online allocation of divisible items to $n$ agents with additive valuations for $p$-mean welfare maximization, a problem introduced by Barman, Khan, and Maiti~(2022). Our algorithmic and hardness results characterize the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Zhiyi Huang , Chui Shan Lee , Xinkai Shu , Zhaozi Wang

We study incentive-compatible mechanisms that maximize the Nash Social Welfare. Since traditional incentive-compatible mechanisms cannot maximize the Nash Social Welfare even approximately, we propose changing the traditional model.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Shahar Dobzinski , Sigal Oren , Jan Vondrak

In this report we construct two mechanisms that fully implement social welfare maximising allocation in Nash equilibria for the case of a single infinitely divisible good subject to multiple inequality constraints. The first mechanism…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-06 Abhinav Sinha , Achilleas Anastasopoulos

We study the problem of allocating indivisible items to budget-constrained agents, aiming to provide fairness and efficiency guarantees. Specifically, our goal is to ensure that the resulting allocation is envy-free up to any item (EFx)…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Marius Garbea , Vasilis Gkatzelis , Xizhi Tan

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

We study the problem of approximating maximum Nash social welfare (NSW) when allocating m indivisible items among n asymmetric agents with submodular valuations. The NSW is a well-established notion of fairness and efficiency, defined as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Jugal Garg , Pooja Kulkarni , Rucha Kulkarni

We revisit the setting of fairly allocating indivisible items when agents have different weights representing their entitlements. First, we propose a parameterized family of relaxations for weighted envy-freeness and the same for weighted…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Mithun Chakraborty , Erel Segal-Halevi , Warut Suksompong

We introduce and analyze new envy-based fairness concepts for agents with weights that quantify their entitlements in the allocation of indivisible items. We propose two variants of weighted envy-freeness up to one item (WEF1): strong,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Mithun Chakraborty , Ayumi Igarashi , Warut Suksompong , Yair Zick

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