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The allocation of resources among multiple agents is a fundamental problem in both economics and computer science. In these settings, fairness plays a crucial role in ensuring social acceptability and practical implementation of resource…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Hadi Hosseini , Joshua Kavner , Samarth Khanna , Sujoy Sikdar , Lirong Xia

The Bayesian persuasion paradigm of strategic communication models interaction between a privately-informed agent, called the sender, and an ignorant but rational agent, called the receiver. The goal is typically to design a (near-)optimal…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Ronen Gradwohl , Niklas Hahn , Martin Hoefer , Rann Smorodinsky

Competitive equilibrium from equal incomes (CEEI) is a classic solution to the problem of fair and efficient allocation of goods [Foley'67, Varian'74]. Every agent receives an equal budget of artificial currency with which to purchase…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Moshe Babaioff , Noam Nisan , Inbal Talgam-Cohen

We explore solutions for fairly allocating indivisible items among agents assigned weights representing their entitlements. Our fairness goal is weighted-envy-freeness (WEF), where each agent deems their allocated portion relative to their…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Noga Klein Elmalem , Rica Gonen , Erel Segal-Halevi

Fairly dividing a set of indivisible resources to a set of agents is of utmost importance in some applications. However, after an allocation has been implemented the preferences of agents might change and envy might arise. We study the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Niclas Boehmer , Robert Bredereck , Klaus Heeger , Dušan Knop , Junjie Luo

We consider large scale cost allocation problems and consensus seeking problems for multiple agents, in which agents are suggested to collaborate in a distributed algorithm to find a solution. If agents are strategic to minimize their own…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-04-11 Takashi Tanaka , Farhad Farokhi , Cédric Langbort

Fair division considers the allocation of scarce resources among agents in such a way that every agent gets a fair share. It is a fundamental problem in society and has received significant attention and rapid developments from the game…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Shengxin Liu , Xinhang Lu , Mashbat Suzuki , Toby Walsh

We study the fair allocation of indivisible items for groups of agents from the perspectives of the agents and a centralized allocator. In our setting, the centralized allocator is interested in ensuring the allocation is fair among the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Ying Wang , Jiaqian Li , Tianze Wei , Hau Chan , Minming Li

Real-world applications of machine learning tools in high-stakes domains are often regulated to be fair, in the sense that the predicted target should satisfy some quantitative notion of parity with respect to a protected attribute.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Han Zhao , Geoffrey J. Gordon

We design online algorithms for the fair allocation of public goods to a set of $N$ agents over a sequence of $T$ rounds and focus on improving their performance using predictions. In the basic model, a public good arrives in each round,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Siddhartha Banerjee , Vasilis Gkatzelis , Safwan Hossain , Billy Jin , Evi Micha , Nisarg Shah

In this work, we revisit the problem of fairly allocating a number of indivisible items that are located on a line to multiple agents. A feasible allocation requires that the allocated items to each agent are connected on the line. The…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Ankang Sun , Bo Li

In the setting where information cannot be verified, we propose a simple yet powerful information theoretical framework---the Mutual Information Paradigm---for information elicitation mechanisms. Our framework pays every agent a measure of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-19 Yuqing Kong , Grant Schoenebeck

Until now, distributed algorithms for rational agents have assumed a-priori knowledge of $n$, the size of the network. This assumption is challenged here by proving how much a-priori knowledge is necessary for equilibrium in different…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Yehuda Afek , Yishay Mansour , Shaked Rafaeli , Moshe Sulamy

We study fair resource allocation when the resources contain a mixture of divisible and indivisible goods, focusing on the well-studied fairness notion of maximin share fairness (MMS). With only indivisible goods, a full MMS allocation may…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Xiaohui Bei , Shengxin Liu , Xinhang Lu , Hongao Wang

We consider the fair allocation of indivisible items to several agents with additional conflict constraints. These are represented by a conflict graph where each item corresponds to a vertex of the graph and edges in the graph represent…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Nina Chiarelli , Matjaž Krnc , Martin Milanič , Ulrich Pferschy , Joachim Schauer

The rise of auto-bidding has created challenges for ensuring advertiser incentive compatibility, particularly when advertisers delegate bidding to agents with high-level constraints. One challenge in defining incentive compatibility is the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Christopher Liaw , Wennan Zhu

Discrimination via algorithmic decision making has received considerable attention. Prior work largely focuses on defining conditions for fairness, but does not define satisfactory measures of algorithmic unfairness. In this paper, we focus…

We study critical systems that allocate scarce resources to satisfy basic needs, such as homeless services that provide housing. These systems often support communities disproportionately affected by systemic racial, gender, or other…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Nathanael Jo , Bill Tang , Kathryn Dullerud , Sina Aghaei , Eric Rice , Phebe Vayanos

In many decision-making scenarios, individuals strategically choose what information to disclose to optimize their own outcomes. It is unclear whether such strategic information disclosure can lead to good societal outcomes. To address this…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Siddhartha Banerjee , Kamesh Munagala , Yiheng Shen , Kangning Wang

We study minimal single-task peer prediction mechanisms that have limited knowledge about agents' beliefs. Without knowing what agents' beliefs are or eliciting additional information, it is not possible to design a truthful mechanism in a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Goran Radanovic , Boi Faltings
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