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In this paper, we consider the problem of fair division of indivisible goods when the allocation of goods impacts society. Specifically, we introduce a second valuation function for each agent, determining the social impact of allocating a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Michele Flammini , Gianluigi Greco , Giovanna Varricchio

Machine Learning (ML) decision-making algorithms are now widely used in predictive decision-making, for example, to determine who to admit and give a loan. Their wide usage and consequential effects on individuals led the ML community to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Keziah Naggita , J. Ceasar Aguma

We study the problem of allocating indivisible goods among agents with additive valuation functions to achieve both fairness and efficiency under the constraint that each agent receives exactly the same number of goods (the \emph{balanced…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Yasushi Kawase , Ryoga Mahara

Algorithmic decision making systems are ubiquitous across a wide variety of online as well as offline services. These systems rely on complex learning methods and vast amounts of data to optimize the service functionality, satisfaction of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-27 Muhammad Bilal Zafar , Isabel Valera , Manuel Gomez Rodriguez , Krishna P. Gummadi

A screening instrument is costly if it is socially wasteful and productive otherwise. A principal screens an agent with multidimensional private information and quasilinear preferences that are additively separable across two components: a…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-10-02 Frank Yang

When users access shared resources in a selfish manner, the resulting societal cost and perceived users' cost is often higher than what would result from a centrally coordinated optimal allocation. While several contributions in mechanism…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Leonardo Pedroso , Andrea Agazzi , W. P. M. H. Heemels , Mauro Salazar

The applications of personalized recommender systems are rapidly expanding: encompassing social media, online shopping, search engine results, and more. These systems offer a more efficient way to navigate the vast array of items available.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Jennifer Chien , David Danks

In this paper, we study the classic problem of fairly allocating indivisible items with the extra feature that the items lie on a line. Our goal is to find a fair allocation that is contiguous, meaning that the bundle of each agent forms a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Warut Suksompong

The theory of algorithmic fair allocation is within the center of multi-agent systems and economics in the last decade due to its industrial and social importance. At a high level, the problem is to assign a set of items that are either…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Haris Aziz , Bo Li , Herve Moulin , Xiaowei Wu

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

The issue of fairness in AI arises from discriminatory practices in applications like job recommendations and risk assessments, emphasising the need for algorithms that do not discriminate based on group characteristics. This concern is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Fengjuan Jia , Mengxiao Zhang , Jiamou Liu , Bakh Khoussainov

In many settings, multiple uninformed agents bargain simultaneously with a single informed agent in each of multiple periods. For example, workers and firms negotiate each year over salaries, and the firm has private information about the…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2020-11-10 Quitzé Valenzuela-Stookey

We propose a notion of fairness for allocation problems in which different agents may have different reservation utilities, stemming from different outside options, or property rights. Fairness is usually understood as the absence of envy,…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2020-05-12 Federico Echenique , Antonio Miralles , Jun Zhang

The advent of powerful prediction algorithms led to increased automation of high-stake decisions regarding the allocation of scarce resources such as government spending and welfare support. This automation bears the risk of perpetuating…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-07 Matthias Kuppler , Christoph Kern , Ruben L. Bach , Frauke Kreuter

Ranking plays a central role in connecting users and providers in Information Retrieval (IR) systems, making provider-side fairness an important challenge. While recent research has begun to address fairness in ranking, most existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yiteng Tu , Weihang Su , Shuguang Han , Yiqun Liu , Qingyao Ai

In standard fair division models, we assume that all agents are selfish. However, in many scenarios, division of resources has a direct impact on the whole group or even society. Therefore, we study fair allocations of indivisible items…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Argyris Deligkas , Eduard Eiben , Tiger-Lily Goldsmith , Dušan Knop , Šimon Schierreich

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 consider a multi-agent resource allocation setting that models the assignment of papers to reviewers. A recurring issue in allocation problems is the compatibility of welfare/efficiency and fairness. Given an oracle to find a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Haris Aziz , Xin Huang , Nicholas Mattei , Erel Segal-Halevi

We study a fair resource scheduling problem, where a set of interval jobs are to be allocated to heterogeneous machines controlled by agents. Each job is associated with release time, deadline, and processing time such that it can be…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Bo Li , Minming Li , Ruilong Zhang

Algorithmic fairness in recommender systems requires close attention to the needs of a diverse set of stakeholders that may have competing interests. Previous work in this area has often been limited by fixed, single-objective definitions…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Amanda Aird , Elena Štefancová , Cassidy All , Amy Voida , Martin Homola , Nicholas Mattei , Robin Burke