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We develop a method using parameterized linear equations to define trading mechanisms in market design models. Our method adeptly addresses challenges arising from factors such as complex endowments or coarse priorities, while offering…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-08-18 Jingsheng Yu , Jun Zhang

Exchange of services and resources in, or over, networks is attracting nowadays renewed interest. However, despite the broad applicability and the extensive study of such models, e.g., in the context of P2P networks, many fundamental…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-09 Leonidas Georgiadis , George Iosifidis , Leandros Tassiulas

The usual definitions of algorithmic fairness focus on population-level statistics, such as demographic parity or equal opportunity. However, in many social or economic contexts, fairness is not perceived globally, but locally, through an…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-01-14 Arthur Charpentier

Optimal transport is a framework that facilitates the most efficient allocation of a limited amount of resources. However, the most efficient allocation scheme does not necessarily preserve the most fairness. In this paper, we establish a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-01 Jason Hughes , Juntao Chen

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 as follows: at each stage, a designated agent picks one object among those that remain.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Aurélie Beynier , Sylvain Bouveret , Michel Lemaître , Nicolas Maudet , Simon Rey

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

Human lives are increasingly being affected by the outcomes of automated decision-making systems and it is essential for the latter to be, not only accurate, but also fair. The literature of algorithmic fairness has grown considerably over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Ainhize Barrainkua , Paula Gordaliza , Jose A. Lozano , Novi Quadrianto

Now that machine learning algorithms lie at the center of many resource allocation pipelines, computer scientists have been unwittingly cast as partial social planners. Given this state of affairs, important questions follow. What is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Lily Hu , Yiling Chen

We study the fair division problem of allocating multiple resources among a set of agents with Leontief preferences that are each required to complete a finite amount of work, which we term "limited demands". We examine the behavior of the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Sushirdeep Narayana , Ian A. Kash

In decentralized systems, nodes often need to coordinate to access shared resources in a fair manner. One approach to perform such arbitration is to rely on auction mechanisms. Although there is an extensive literature that studies…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Amin M. Khan , Xavier Vilaça , Luís Rodrigues , Felix Freitag

We study the fair allocation of indivisible resources among agents. Most prior work focuses on fairness and/or efficiency among agents. However, the allocator, as the resource owner, may also be involved in many scenarios (e.g., government…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Xiaolin Bu , Zihao Li , Shengxin Liu , Jiaxin Song , Biaoshuai Tao

Fairness in algorithmic decision-making is often defined in the predictive space, where predictive performance - used as a proxy for decision-maker (DM) utility - is traded off against prediction-based fairness notions, such as demographic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Kavya Gupta , Nektarios Kalampalikis , Christoph Heitz , Isabel Valera

As federated learning gains increasing importance in real-world applications due to its capacity for decentralized data training, addressing fairness concerns across demographic groups becomes critically important. However, most existing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-16 Qichuan Yin , Zexian Wang , Junzhou Huang , Huaxiu Yao , Linjun Zhang

A set of objects is to be divided fairly among agents with different tastes, modeled by additive utility-functions. If we consider the objects as indivisible, many instances of the decision problem: ``Is there a fair division of the objects…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Samuel Bismuth , Ivan Bliznets , Erel Segal-Halevi

Machine learning-driven rankings, where individuals (or items) are ranked in response to a query, mediate search exposure or attention in a variety of safety-critical settings. Thus, it is important to ensure that such rankings are fair.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Aparna Balagopalan , Kai Wang , Olawale Salaudeen , Asia Biega , Marzyeh Ghassemi

Fair graph clustering is crucial for ensuring equitable representation and treatment of diverse communities in network analysis. Traditional methods often ignore disparities among social, economic, and demographic groups, perpetuating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Sina Baharlouei , Sadra Sabouri

Current methodologies in machine learning analyze the effects of various statistical parity notions of fairness primarily in light of their impacts on predictive accuracy and vendor utility loss. In this paper, we propose a new framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Lily Hu , Yiling Chen

The classical theory of efficient allocations of an aggregate endowment in a pure-exchange economy has hitherto primarily focused on the Pareto-efficiency of allocations, under the implicit assumption that transfers between agents are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Mario Ghossoub , Giulio Principi , Ruodu Wang

We introduce and study a multi-class online resource allocation problem with group fairness guarantees. The problem involves allocating a fixed amount of resources to a sequence of agents, each belonging to a specific group. The primary…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Faraz Zargari , Hossein Nekouyan Jazi , Bo Sun , Xiaoqi Tan

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