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We study the problem of allocating indivisible items to budget-constrained agents, aiming to provide fairness and efficiency guarantees. Specifically, our goal is to ensure that the resulting allocation is envy-free up to any item (EFx)…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Marius Garbea , Vasilis Gkatzelis , Xizhi Tan

We study fair division of indivisible mixed manna (items whose values may be positive, negative, or zero) among agents with additive valuations. Here, we establish that fairness -- in terms of a relaxation of envy-freeness -- and Pareto…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Siddharth Barman , Vishwa Prakash HV , Aditi Sethia , Mashbat Suzuki

We generalize the classic problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods to the problem of \emph{fair public decision making}, in which a decision must be made on several social issues simultaneously, and, unlike the classic setting, a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-01 Vincent Conitzer , Rupert Freeman , Nisarg Shah

We study the problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods to agents with weights corresponding to their entitlements. Previous work has shown that, when agents have binary additive valuations, the maximum weighted Nash welfare rule is…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2023-10-10 Warut Suksompong , Nicholas Teh

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 allocating a set of indivisible goods among agents with subadditive valuations in a fair and efficient manner. Envy-Freeness up to any good (EFX) is the most compelling notion of fairness in the context of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Bhaskar Ray Chaudhury , Jugal Garg , Ruta Mehta

We study the problem of maximizing Nash welfare (MNW) while allocating indivisible goods to asymmetric agents. The Nash welfare of an allocation is the weighted geometric mean of agents' utilities, and the allocation with maximum Nash…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Jugal Garg , Edin Husić , Aniket Murhekar , László Végh

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

Allocating multiple scarce items across a set of individuals is an important practical problem. In the case of divisible goods and additive preferences a convex program can be used to find the solution that maximizes Nash welfare (MNW). The…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Christian Kroer , Alexander Peysakhovich

We study the problem of allocating indivisible goods among agents with additive valuations. When randomization is allowed, it is possible to achieve compelling notions of fairness such as envy-freeness, which states that no agent should…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Rupert Freeman , Nisarg Shah , Rohit Vaish

Fair resource allocation is an important problem in many real-world scenarios, where resources such as goods and chores must be allocated among agents. In this survey, we delve into the intricacies of fair allocation, focusing specifically…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Shaily Mishra , Manisha Padala , Sujit Gujar

We consider the problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods, among agents, under cardinality constraints and additive valuations. In this setting, we are given a partition of the entire set of goods---i.e., the goods are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Siddharth Barman , Arpita Biswas

We investigate the fair allocation of indivisible goods to agents with possibly different entitlements represented by weights. Previous work has shown that guarantees for additive valuations with existing envy-based notions cannot be…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Luisa Montanari , Ulrike Schmidt-Kraepelin , Warut Suksompong , Nicholas Teh

Although approximate notions of envy-freeness-such as envy-freeness up to one good (EF1)-have been extensively studied for indivisible goods, the seemingly simpler fairness concept of proportionality up to one good (PROP1) has received far…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Martin Jupakkal Andersen , Ioannis Caragiannis , Anders Bo Ipsen , Alexander Søltoft

In an online fair allocation problem, a sequence of indivisible items arrives online and needs to be allocated to offline agents immediately and irrevocably. In our paper, we study the online allocation of either goods or chores. We employ…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Yuanyuan Wang , Tianze Wei

Allocating items in a fair and economically efficient manner is a central problem in fair division. We study this problem for agents with additive preferences, when items are all goods or all chores, divisible or indivisible. The celebrated…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Owen Eckart , Alexandros Psomas , Paritosh Verma

We study the problem of fairly allocating a set of indivisible goods among agents with additive valuations. The extent of fairness of an allocation is measured by its Nash social welfare, which is the geometric mean of the valuations of the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Siddharth Barman , Sanath Kumar Krishnamurthy , Rohit Vaish

We study the classic problem of dividing a collection of indivisible resources in a fair and efficient manner among a set of agents having varied preferences. Pareto optimality is a standard notion of economic efficiency, which states that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Ioannis Caragiannis , Kristoffer Arnsfelt Hansen , Nidhi Rathi

The classic cake-cutting problem provides a model for addressing fair and efficient allocation of a divisible, heterogeneous resource (metaphorically, the cake) among agents with distinct preferences. Focusing on a standard formulation of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Eshwar Ram Arunachaleswaran , Siddharth Barman , Rachitesh Kumar , Nidhi Rathi

Several fairness concepts have been proposed recently in attempts to approximate envy-freeness in settings with indivisible goods. Among them, the concept of envy-freeness up to any item (EFX) is arguably the closest to envy-freeness.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Ioannis Caragiannis , Nick Gravin , Xin Huang