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This paper analyzes a steady state matching model interrelating the education and labor sectors. In this model, a heterogeneous population of students match with teachers to enhance their cognitive skills. As adults, they then choose to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-25 Alice Erlinger , Robert J. McCann , Xianwen Shi , Aloysius Siow , Ronald Wolthoff

We study the problem of finding fair and efficient allocations of a set of indivisible items to a set of agents, where each item may be a good (positively valued) for some agents and a bad (negatively valued) for others, i.e., a mixed…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Vasilis Livanos , Ruta Mehta , Aniket Murhekar

We study the problem of fairly allocating $m$ indivisible goods to $n$ agents, where agents may have different preferences over the goods. In the traditional setting, agents' valuations are provided as inputs to the algorithm. In this…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Xiaolin Bu , Zihao Li , Shengxin Liu , Jiaxin Song , Biaoshuai Tao

We investigate the existence of fair and efficient allocations of indivisible chores to asymmetric agents who have unequal entitlements or weights. We consider the fairness notion of weighted envy-freeness up to one chore (wEF1) and the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Jugal Garg , Aniket Murhekar , John Qin

We study ex-post fairness in the object allocation problem where objects are valuable and commonly owned. A matching is fair from individual perspective if it has only inevitable envy towards agents who received most preferred objects --…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Aleksei Y. Kondratev , Alexander S. Nesterov

We consider a multi-agent resource allocation setting in which an agent's utility may decrease or increase when an item is allocated. We take the group envy-freeness concept that is well-established in the literature and present stronger…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Haris Aziz , Simon Rey

We study the problem of fairly assigning a set of discrete tasks (or chores) among a set of agents with additive valuations. Each chore is associated with a start and finish time, and each agent can perform at most one chore at any given…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Sarfaraz Equbal , Rohit Gurjar , Yatharth Kumar , Swaprava Nath , Raghuvansh Saxena , Rohit Vaish

How should we decide which fairness criteria or definitions to adopt in machine learning systems? To answer this question, we must study the fairness preferences of actual users of machine learning systems. Stringent parity constraints on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Angie Peng , Jeff Naecker , Ben Hutchinson , Andrew Smart , Nyalleng Moorosi

The classic fair division problems assume the resources to be allocated are either divisible or indivisible, or contain a mixture of both, but the agents always have a predetermined and uncontroversial agreement on the (in)divisibility of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Xiaohui Bei , Shengxin Liu , Xinhang Lu

We study fair division of indivisible goods in a single-parameter environment. In particular, we develop truthful social welfare maximizing mechanisms for fairly allocating indivisible goods. Our fairness guarantees are in terms of solution…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Siddharth Barman , Ganesh Ghalme , Shweta Jain , Pooja Kulkarni , Shivika Narang

We study a fundamental fair allocation problem, where the agent's value is determined by the number of bins either used to pack or cover the items allocated to them. Fairness is evaluated using the maximin share (MMS) criterion. This…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Bo Li , Ankang Sun , Zunyu Wang , Yu Zhou

We study the problem of fairly allocating a set of chores to a group of agents. The existence of envy-free up to any item (EFX) allocations is a long-standing open question for both goods and chores. We resolve this question by providing a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Vasilis Christoforidis , Christodoulos Santorinaios

The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) has driven progress in reasoning tasks -- from program synthesis to scientific hypothesis generation -- yet their ability to handle ranked preferences and structured algorithms in combinatorial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Hadi Hosseini , Samarth Khanna , Ronak Singh

We consider a single buyer with a combinatorial preference that would like to purchase related products and services from different vendors, where each vendor supplies exactly one product. We study the general case where subsets of products…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-09 Moshe Babaioff , Noam Nisan , Renato Paes Leme

Rankings on online platforms help their end-users find the relevant information -- people, news, media, and products -- quickly. Fair ranking tasks, which ask to rank a set of items to maximize utility subject to satisfying group-fairness…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Sruthi Gorantla , Anay Mehrotra , Amit Deshpande , Anand Louis

We consider the problem of dividing items between individuals in a way that is fair both in the sense of distributional fairness and in the sense of not having disparate impact across protected classes. An important existing mechanism for…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Alexander Peysakhovich , Christian Kroer

We fully solve a sorting problem with heterogeneous firms and multiple heterogeneous workers whose skills are imperfect substitutes. We show that optimal sorting, which we call mixed and countermonotonic, is comprised of two regions. In the…

General Economics · Economics 2023-11-28 Job Boerma , Aleh Tsyvinski , Alexander P. Zimin

Many matching markets feature unknown, dynamic arrivals of agents that must match immediately. A caseworker must match an abused child to a foster home, a hospital must assign a patient in critical condition to a room, or a city must place…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-04-15 Terence Highsmith

Many-to-one matching markets exist in numerous different forms, such as college admissions, matching medical interns to hospitals for residencies, assigning housing to college students, and the classic firms and workers market. In all these…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-07-25 Elizabeth Bodine-Baron , Christina Lee , Anthony Chong , Babak Hassibi , Adam Wierman

While historically, economists have been primarily occupied with analyzing the behaviour of the markets, electronic trading gave rise to a new class of unprecedented problems associated with market fairness, transparency and manipulation.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Vasilios Mavroudis , Hayden Melton