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We study the problem of fairly and efficiently allocating indivisible goods among agents with additive valuations. We focus on envy-freeness up to any good (EFX) -- an important fairness notion in fair division of indivisible goods. A…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Vladimir Davidiuk , Yuriy Dementiev , Artur Ignatiev , Danil Sagunov

We study fair allocation of indivisible goods to agents with unequal entitlements. Fair allocation has been the subject of many studies in both divisible and indivisible settings. Our emphasis is on the case where the goods are indivisible…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Alireza Farhadi , Mohammad Ghodsi , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Sebastien Lahaie , David Pennock , Masoud Seddighin , Saeed Seddighin , Hadi Yami

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

When allocating a set of indivisible items among agents, the ideal condition of envy-freeness cannot always be achieved. Envy-freeness up to any good (EFX), and envy-freeness with $k$ hidden items (HEF-$k$) are two very compelling…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Justin Payan , Rik Sengupta , Vignesh Viswanathan

We consider the problem of the existence of an envy-free allocation up to any good (EFX) for linear valuations and establish new results by connecting this problem to a fixed point framework. Specifically, we first use randomized rounding…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-07 S. Rasoul Etesami

We consider a fair division model in which agents have general valuations for bundles of indivisible items. We propose two new axiomatic properties for allocations in this model: EF1+- and EFX+-. We compare these with the existing EF1 and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Martin Aleksandrov

In the fair division of items among interested agents, envy-freeness is possibly the most favoured and widely studied formalisation of fairness. For indivisible items, envy-free allocations may not exist in trivial cases, and hence research…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Umang Bhaskar , Gunjan Kumar , Yeshwant Pandit , Rakshitha

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

Envy-freeness is a standard benchmark of fairness in resource allocation. Since it cannot always be satisfied when the resource consists of indivisible items even when there are two agents, the relaxations envy-freeness up to one item (EF1)…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Warut Suksompong

We study the problem of finding fair allocations -- EF1 and EFX -- of indivisible goods with orientations. In an orientation, every agent gets items from their own predetermined set. For EF1, we show that EF1 orientations always exist when…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Argyrios Deligkas , Eduard Eiben , Tiger-Lily Goldsmith , Viktoriia Korchemna

A major problem in fair division is how to allocate a set of indivisible resources among agents fairly and efficiently. The goal of this work is to characterize the tradeoffs between two well-studied measures of fairness and efficiency --…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Michal Feldman , Simon Mauras , Tomasz Ponitka

We study the fair allocation of indivisible goods among agents with identical, additive valuations but individual budget constraints. Here, the indivisible goods--each with a specific size and value--need to be allocated such that the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Siddharth Barman , Arindam Khan , Sudarshan Shyam , K. V. N. Sreenivas

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 existence of allocations of indivisible goods that are envy-free up to one good (EF1), under the additional constraint that each bundle needs to be connected in an underlying item graph. If the graph is a path and the utility…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Vittorio Bilò , Ioannis Caragiannis , Michele Flammini , Ayumi Igarashi , Gianpiero Monaco , Dominik Peters , Cosimo Vinci , William S. Zwicker

Envy-freeness up to any good (EFX) is a central fairness notion for allocating indivisible goods, yet its existence is unresolved in general. In the setting with few surplus items, where the number of goods exceeds the number of agents by a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Eugene Lim , Tzeh Yuan Neoh , Nicholas Teh

We consider the problem of fair allocation of indivisible goods among agents with additive valuations, aiming for Best-of-Both-Worlds (BoBW) fairness: a distribution over allocations that is ex-ante fair, and additionally, it is supported…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Moshe Babaioff , Gefen Frosh

We consider a resource allocation problem with agents that have additive ternary valuations for a set of indivisible items, and bound the price of envy-free up to one item (EF1) allocations. For a large number $n$ of agents, we show a lower…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Maria Kyropoulou , Alexandros A. Voudouris

Envy-free up to one good (EF1) and envy-free up to any good (EFX) are two well-known extensions of envy-freeness for the case of indivisible items. It is shown that EF1 can always be guaranteed for agents with subadditive valuations. In…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Alireza Farhadi , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Mohamad Latifian , Masoud Seddighin , Hadi Yami

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 computing \emph{fair} divisions of a set of indivisible goods among agents with \emph{additive} valuations. For the past many decades, the literature has explored various notions of fairness, that can be primarily…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Hannaneh Akrami , Nidhi Rathi