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We consider allocating indivisible goods with provable fairness guarantees that are satisfied regardless of which bundle of items each agent receives. Symmetrical allocations of this type are known to exist for divisible resources, such as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Connor Johnston , Aleksandr M. Kazachkov

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 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 study the problem of fairly assigning a set of discrete tasks (or chores) among a set of agents with additive valuations. Each chore is associated with a start and finish time, and each agent can perform at most one chore at any given…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Sarfaraz Equbal , Rohit Gurjar , Yatharth Kumar , Swaprava Nath , Raghuvansh Saxena , Rohit Vaish

With very few exceptions, recent research in fair division has mostly focused on deterministic allocations. Deviating from this trend, we study the fairness notion of interim envy-freeness (iEF) for lotteries over allocations, which serves…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Ioannis Caragiannis , Panagiotis Kanellopoulos , Maria Kyropoulou

We study fair division of indivisible chores among $n$ agents with additive disutility functions. Two well-studied fairness notions for indivisible items are envy-freeness up to one/any item (EF1/EFX) and the standard notion of economic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Hannaneh Akrami , Bhaskar Ray Chaudhury , Jugal Garg , Kurt Mehlhorn , Ruta Mehta

The fair allocation of scarce resources is a central problem in mathematics, computer science, operations research, and economics. While much of the fair-division literature assumes that individuals have underlying cardinal preferences,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Trung Dang , Daniel Halpern , Anuran Makur , Alexandros Psomas , Japneet Singh , Paritosh Verma

We study the problem of fairly allocating a multiset $M$ of $m$ indivisible items among $n$ agents with additive valuations. Specifically, we introduce a parameter $t$ for the number of distinct types of items and study fair allocations of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Pranay Gorantla , Kunal Marwaha , Santhoshini Velusamy

We study the fair allocation of undesirable indivisible items, or chores. While the case of desirable indivisible items (or goods) is extensively studied, with many results known for different notions of fairness, less is known about the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Umang Bhaskar , A. R. Sricharan , Rohit Vaish

In the budget-feasible allocation problem, a set of items with varied sizes and values are to be allocated to a group of agents. Each agent has a budget constraint on the total size of items she can receive. The goal is to compute a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Jiarui Gan , Bo Li , Xiaowei Wu

We study parallel comparison-based algorithms for finding all equivalence classes of a set of $n$ elements, where sorting according to some total order is not possible. Such scenarios arise, for example, in applications, such as in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-13 William E. Devanny , Michael T. Goodrich , Kristopher Jetviroj

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 the following: at each stage, a designated agent picks one object among those that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-07 Sylvain Bouveret , Michel Lemaître

We study an online version of the max-min fair allocation problem for indivisible items. In this problem, items arrive one by one, and each item must be allocated irrevocably on arrival to one of $n$ agents, who have additive valuations for…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Yasushi Kawase , Hanna Sumita

We study Fisher markets that admit equilibria wherein each good is integrally assigned to some agent. While strong existence and computational guarantees are known for equilibria of Fisher markets with additive valuations, such equilibria,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Siddharth Barman , Sanath Kumar Krishnamurthy

A collection of objects, some of which are good and some are bad, is to be divided fairly among agents with different tastes, modeled by additive utility functions. If the objects cannot be shared, so that each of them must be entirely…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Fedor Sandomirskiy , Erel Segal-Halevi

We study the classical rent division problem, where $n$ agents must allocate $n$ indivisible rooms and split a fixed total rent $R$. The goal is to compute an envy-free (EF) allocation, where no agent prefers another agent's room and rent…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Rohith Reddy Gangam , Shayan Taherijam , Vijay V. Vazirani

The problem of finding envy-free allocations of indivisible goods can not always be solved; therefore, it is common to study some relaxations such as envy-free up to one good (EF1). Another property of interest for efficiency of an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Franklin Camacho , Rigoberto Fonseca-Delgado , Ramón Pino Pérez , Guido Tapia

We consider fair allocation of indivisible items under an additional constraint: there is an undirected graph describing the relationship between the items, and each agent's share must form a connected subgraph of this graph. This framework…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-07 Sylvain Bouveret , Katarína Cechlárová , Edith Elkind , Ayumi Igarashi , Dominik Peters

Envy-freeness up to one good (EF1) is a well-studied fairness notion for indivisible goods that addresses pairwise envy by the removal of at most one good. In the worst case, each pair of agents might require the (hypothetical) removal of a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Hadi Hosseini , Sujoy Sikdar , Rohit Vaish , Jun Wang , Lirong Xia

We study the problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods to agents in an online setting, where goods arrive sequentially and must be allocated irrevocably. Focusing on the popular fairness notions of envy-freeness, proportionality, and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Tzeh Yuan Neoh , Jannik Peters , Nicholas Teh
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