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Given an initial resource allocation, where some agents may envy others or where a different distribution of resources might lead to higher social welfare, our goal is to improve the allocation without reassigning resources. We consider a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Robert Bredereck , Andrzej Kaczmarczyk , Junjie Luo , Rolf Niedermeier , Florian Sachse

We study an online resource allocation problem under uncertainty about demand and about the reward of each type of demand (agents) for the resource. Even though dealing with demand uncertainty in resource allocation problems has been the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Negin Gorlezaei , Patrick Jaillet , Zijie Zhou

We study fair division of goods under the broad class of generalized assignment constraints. In this constraint framework, the sizes and values of the goods are agent-specific, and one needs to allocate the goods among the agents fairly…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Siddharth Barman , Arindam Khan , Sudarshan Shyam , K. V. N. Sreenivas

We present a unified framework for designing and analyzing algorithms for online budgeted allocation problems (including online matching) and their generalization, the Online Generalized Assignment Problem (OnGAP). These problems have been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-08-27 Rad Niazadeh , Robert D. Kleinberg

Inspired by Internet ad auction applications, we study the problem of allocating a single item via an auction when bidders place very different values on the item. We formulate this as the problem of prior-free auction and focus on…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2009-09-30 Vahab Mirrokni , S. Muthukrishnan , Uri Nadav

We present a simple local search algorithm for computing EFX (envy-free up to any good) allocations of $m$ indivisible goods among $n$ agents with additive valuations. EFX is a compelling fairness notion, and whether such allocations always…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Simina Brânzei

Decision making problems are typically concerned with maximizing efficiency. In contrast, we address problems where there are multiple stakeholders and a centralized decision maker who is obliged to decide in a fair manner. Different…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-21 Andrea Lodi , Philippe Olivier , Gilles Pesant , Sriram Sankaranarayanan

As foundation models grow in size, fine-tuning them becomes increasingly expensive. While GPU spot instances offer a low-cost alternative to on-demand resources, their volatile prices and availability make deadline-aware scheduling…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Linggao Kong , Yuedong Xu , Lei Jiao , Chuan Xu

We study the problem of allocating a set of indivisible items among agents whose preferences include externalities. Unlike the standard fair division model, agents may derive positive or negative utility not only from items allocated…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Frank Connor , Max Dupré la Tour , Vishnu V. Narayan , Šimon Schierreich

The current practice of envy-free rent division, lead by the fair allocation website Spliddit, is based on quasi-linear preferences. These preferences rule out agents' well documented financial constraints. To resolve this issue we consider…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Rodrigo A. Velez

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

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

Fair allocation of indivisible goods is a fundamental problem at the interface of economics and computer science. Traditional approaches focus either on randomized allocations that are fair in expectation or deterministic allocations that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Telikepalli Kavitha , Surya Panchapakesan , Rohit Vaish , Vignesh Viswanathan , Jatin Yadav

We consider the problem of repeatedly allocating multiple shareable public goods that have limited availability in an online setting without the use of money. In our setting, agents have additive values, and the value each agent receives…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Chido Onyeze , David X. Lin , Siddhartha Banerjee , Éva Tardos

We study the fair division problem on divisible heterogeneous resources (the cake cutting problem) with strategic agents, where each agent can manipulate his/her private valuation in order to receive a better allocation. A…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Xiaolin Bu , Jiaxin Song , Biaoshuai Tao

We improve the best known competitive ratio (from 1/4 to 1/2), for the online multi-unit allocation problem, where the objective is to maximize the single-price revenue. Moreover, the competitive ratio of our algorithm tends to 1, as the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2009-01-13 Sourav Chakraborty , Nikhil Devanur

The majority of online marketplaces offer promotion programs to sellers to acquire additional customers for their products. These programs typically allow sellers to allocate advertising budgets to promote their products, with higher…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Anastasiia Soboleva , Alexander Ledovsky , Yuriy Dorn , Egor Samosvat , Andrey Tikhanov , Fyodor Prazdnikov

In an attempt to make algorithms fair, the machine learning literature has largely focused on equalizing decisions, outcomes, or error rates across race or gender groups. To illustrate, consider a hypothetical government rideshare program…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Alex Chohlas-Wood , Madison Coots , Henry Zhu , Emma Brunskill , Sharad Goel

We study the problem of fairly allocating a set of $m$ goods among $n$ agents in the asymptotic setting, where each item's value for each agent is drawn from an underlying joint distribution. Prior works have shown that if this distribution…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Jugal Garg , Vishnu V. Narayan , Yuang Eric Shen

We investigate the online fair allocation problem with sequentially arriving items under various input models, with the goal of balancing fairness and efficiency. We propose the unconstrained PACE (Pacing According to Current Estimated…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Zongjun Yang , Luofeng Liao , Yuan Gao , Christian Kroer