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The existence of allocations that are fair and efficient, simultaneously, is a central inquiry in fair division literature. A prominent result in discrete fair division shows that the complementary desiderata of fairness and efficiency can…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Siddharth Barman , Paritosh Verma

We study a fair division model where indivisible items arrive sequentially, and must be allocated immediately and irrevocably. Previous work on online fair division has shown impossibility results in achieving approximate envy-freeness…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Edith Elkind , Alexander Lam , Mohamad Latifian , Tzeh Yuan Neoh , Nicholas Teh

Equitable allocation of indivisible items involves partitioning the items among agents such that everyone derives (almost) equal utility. We consider the approximate notion of \textit{equitability up to one item} (EQ1) and focus on the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Hadi Hosseini , Aditi Sethia

We study the problem of finding fair and efficient allocations of a set of indivisible items to a set of agents, where each item may be a good (positively valued) for some agents and a bad (negatively valued) for others, i.e., a mixed…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Vasilis Livanos , Ruta Mehta , Aniket Murhekar

We study the problem of fairly allocating either a set of indivisible goods or a set of mixed divisible and indivisible goods (i.e., mixed goods) to agents with additive utilities, taking the best-of-both-worlds perspective of guaranteeing…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Xiaolin Bu , Zihao Li , Shengxin Liu , Xinhang Lu , Biaoshuai Tao

We study the problem of dividing indivisible chores among agents whose costs (for the chores) are supermodular set functions with binary marginals. Such functions capture complementarity among chores, i.e., they constitute an expressive…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Siddharth Barman , Vishnu V. Narayan , Paritosh Verma

One of the most important topics in discrete fair division is whether an EFX allocation exists for any instance. Although the existence of EFX allocations is a standing open problem for both goods and chores, the understanding of the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Yusuke Kobayashi , Ryoga Mahara , Souta Sakamoto

In fair division problems, we are given a set $S$ of $m$ items and a set $N$ of $n$ agents with individual preferences, and the goal is to find an allocation of items among agents so that each agent finds the allocation fair. There are…

We study the problem of fairly and efficiently allocating indivisible chores among agents with additive disutility functions. We consider the widely-used envy-based fairness properties of EF1 and EFX, in conjunction with the efficiency…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Jugal Garg , Aniket Murhekar , John Qin

We study the fair allocation of indivisible goods and chores under ordinal valuations for agents with unequal entitlements. We show the existence and polynomial time computation of weighted necessarily proportional up to one item…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Vishwa Prakash H. V. , Prajakta Nimbhorkar

We study fair allocation of indivisible chores (i.e., items with non-positive value) among agents with additive valuations. An allocation is deemed fair if it is (approximately) equitable, which means that the disutilities of the agents are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Rupert Freeman , Sujoy Sikdar , Rohit Vaish , Lirong Xia

We formulate the problem of fair and efficient completion of indivisible goods, defined as follows: Given a partial allocation of indivisible goods among agents, does there exist an allocation of the remaining goods (i.e., a completion)…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Vishwa Prakash HV , Ayumi Igarashi , Rohit Vaish

We explore the fair distribution of a set of $m$ indivisible chores among $n$ agents, where each agent's costs are evaluated using a monotone cost function. Our focus lies on two fairness criteria: envy-freeness up to any item (EFX) and a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Mahyar Afshinmehr , Matin Ansaripour , Alireza Danaei , Kurt Mehlhorn

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

We study fair allocation of indivisible chores to agents under budget constraints, where each chore has an objective size and disutility. This model captures scenarios where a set of chores need to be divided among agents with limited time,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Edith Elkind , Ayumi Igarashi , Nicholas Teh

We study the fair division of indivisible chores among agents with additive disutility functions. We investigate the existence of allocations satisfying the popular fairness notion of envy-freeness up to any chore (EFX), and its…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Jugal Garg , Aniket Murhekar

We study the fair division of indivisible items. In the general model, the goal is to allocate $m$ indivisible items to $n$ agents while satisfying fairness criteria such as MMS, EF1, and EFX. We also study a recently-introduced graphical…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Kevin Hsu

We initiate the study of computing envy-free allocations of indivisible items in the extension setting, i.e., when some part of the allocation is fixed and the task is to allocate the remaining items. Given the known NP-hardness of the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Argyrios Deligkas , Eduard Eiben , Robert Ganian , Tiger-Lily Goldsmith , Stavros D. Ioannidis

For the fundamental problem of fairly dividing a set of indivisible items among agents, envy-freeness up to any item (EFX) and maximin fairness (MMS) are arguably the most compelling fairness concepts proposed until now. Unfortunately,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Ioannis Caragiannis , Jugal Garg , Nidhi Rathi , Eklavya Sharma , Giovanna Varricchio

Envy-freeness up to any good (EFX) is a popular and important fairness property in the fair allocation of indivisible goods, of which its existence in general is still an open question. In this work, we investigate the problem of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Tzeh Yuan Neoh , Nicholas Teh