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Equitability (EQ) in fair division requires that items be allocated such that all agents value the bundle they receive equally. With indivisible items, an equitable allocation may not exist, and hence we instead consider a meaningful…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Siddharth Barman , Umang Bhaskar , Yeshwant Pandit , Soumyajit Pyne

In fair division problems, we are given a set $S$ of $m$ items and a set $N$ of $n$ agents with individual preferences, and the goal is to find an allocation of items among agents so that each agent finds the allocation fair. There are…

We study the problem of fairly allocating a set of indivisible goods among $n$ agents with additive valuations. Envy-freeness up to any good (EFX) is arguably the most compelling fairness notion in this context. However, the existence of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Bhaskar Ray Chaudhury , Jugal Garg , Kurt Mehlhorn , Ruta Mehta , Pranabendu Misra

We study fair division of indivisible items under a variable input setting, where the set of agents or items may change over time. Starting from an arbitrary allocation, the goal is to restore envy-freeness up to one item (EF1) through item…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Harish Chandramouleeswaran , Prajakta Nimbhorkar , Nidhi Rathi

We study a fair division problem in (multi)graphs where $n$ agents (vertices) are pairwise connected by items (edges), and each agent is only interested in its incident items. We consider how to allocate items to incident agents in an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Bo Li , Ankang Sun , Mashbat Suzuki , Shiji Xing

We study the problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods among agents which are equipped with {\em leveled} valuation functions. Such preferences, that have been studied before in economics and fair division literature, capture a simple…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-17 George Christodoulou , Vasilis Christoforidis

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

The existence of EFX allocations is a central open problem in discrete fair division. An allocation is EFX (envy-free up to any good) if no agent envies another agent after the removal of any single good from the other agent's bundle. We…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Hannaneh Akrami , Alexander Mayorov , Kurt Mehlhorn , Shreyas Srinivas , Christoph Weidenbach

We study the problem of fair division when the resources contain both divisible and indivisible goods. Classic fairness notions such as envy-freeness (EF) and envy-freeness up to one good (EF1) cannot be directly applied to the mixed goods…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Xiaohui Bei , Zihao Li , Jinyan Liu , Shengxin Liu , Xinhang Lu

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 consider the fair division problem of indivisible items. It is well-known that an envy-free allocation may not exist, and a relaxed version of envy-freeness, envy-freeness up to one item (EF1), has been widely considered. In an EF1…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Xiaolin Bu , Zihao Li , Shengxin Liu , Jiaxin Song , Biaoshuai Tao

We study the fair division problem of allocating $m$ indivisible goods to $n$ agents with additive personalized bi-valued utilities. Specifically, each agent $i$ assigns one of two positive values $a_i > b_i > 0$ to each good, indicating…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Jiarong Jin , Biaoshuai Tao

We study the problem of fair allocation of a set of indivisible goods among $n$ agents with $k$ distinct additive valuations, with the goal of achieving approximate envy-freeness up to any good ($\alpha-\mathrm{EFX}$). It is known that EFX…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Vishwa Prakash HV , Ruta Mehta , Prajakta Nimbhorkar

Allocating indivisible items among a set of agents is a frequently studied discrete optimization problem. In the setting considered in this work, the agents' preferences over the items are assumed to be identical. We consider a very recent…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Nina Chiarelli , Clément Dallard , Andreas Darmann , Stefan Lendl , Martin Milanič , Peter Muršič , Ulrich Pferschy

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 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 study the fundamental problem of fairly dividing a set of indivisible goods among agents with additive valuations. Here, envy-freeness up to any good (EFX) is a central fairness notion and resolving its existence is regarded as one of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Hannaneh Akrami , Ryoga Mahara , Kurt Mehlhorn , Nidhi Rathi

Ensuring fairness while limiting costs, such as transportation or storage, is an important challenge in resource allocation, yet most work has focused on cost minimization without fairness or fairness without explicit cost considerations.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Eva Deltl

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 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