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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 consider the problem of fair allocation of indivisible items to agents that have arbitrary entitlements to the items. Every agent $i$ has a valuation function $v_i$ and an entitlement $b_i$, where entitlements sum up to~1. Which…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Moshe Babaioff , Uriel Feige

Fair clustering has traditionally focused on ensuring equitable group representation or equalizing group-specific clustering costs. However, Dickerson et al. (2025) recently showed that these fairness notions may yield undesirable or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Claire Jie Zhang , Seyed A. Esmaeili , Jamie Morgenstern

We propose an efficient algorithm for estimation of possibility based qualitative expected utility. It is useful for decision making mechanisms where each possible decision is assigned a multi-attribute possibility distribution. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-07-09 Jakub Brzostowski , Ryszard Kowalczyk

We study a multi-round welfare-maximising mechanism design problem in instances where agents do not know their values. On each round, a mechanism first assigns an allocation each to a set of agents and charges them a price; at the end of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-01-25 Kirthevasan Kandasamy , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Michael I. Jordan , Ion Stoica

We introduce and analyze new envy-based fairness concepts for agents with weights that quantify their entitlements in the allocation of indivisible items. We propose two variants of weighted envy-freeness up to one item (WEF1): strong,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Mithun Chakraborty , Ayumi Igarashi , Warut Suksompong , Yair Zick

Combinatorial auctions where agents can bid on bundles of items are desirable because they allow the agents to express complementarity and substitutability between the items. However, expressing one's preferences can require bidding on all…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Benoit Hudson , Tuomas Sandholm

We study a participatory budgeting problem of aggregating the preferences of agents and dividing a budget over the projects. A budget division solution is a probability distribution over the projects. The main purpose of our study concerns…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Zhongzheng Tang , Chenhao Wang , Mengqi Zhang

When allocating indivisible resources or tasks, an envy-free allocation or equitable allocation may not exist. We present a sufficient condition and an algorithm to achieve envy-freeness and equitability when monetary transfers are allowed.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Haris Aziz

Motivated by the success of the serial dictatorship mechanism in social choice settings, we explore its usefulness in tackling various combinatorial optimization problems. We do so by considering an abstract model, in which a set of agents…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Ioannis Caragiannis , Nidhi Rathi

The purpose of this study is to explore whether the relationship between bias and nudges can be mathematically expressed in terms of quantum information theory, particularly by means of individually customized nudges. Based on the value…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-11-14 Misao Fukuda

We investigate a model of sequential decision-making where a single alternative is chosen at each round. We focus on two objectives -- utilitarian welfare (Util) and egalitarian welfare (Egal) -- and consider the computational complexity of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Edith Elkind , Tzeh Yuan Neoh , Nicholas Teh

Fair division has emerged as a very hot topic in multiagent systems, and envy-freeness is among the most compelling fairness concepts. An allocation of indivisible items to agents is envy-free if no agent prefers the bundle of any other…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Ioannis Caragiannis , Stavros Ioannidis

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

In a consideration set model, an individual maximizes utility among the considered alternatives. I relate a consideration set additive random utility model to classic discrete choice and the extended additive random utility model, in which…

Econometrics · Economics 2024-05-24 Roy Allen

We consider the problem of allocating divisible items among multiple agents, and consider the setting where any agent is allowed to introduce diversity constraints on the items they are allocated. We motivate this via settings where the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Zeyu Shen , Lodewijk Gelauff , Ashish Goel , Aleksandra Korolova , Kamesh Munagala

We revisit the setting of fair allocation of indivisible items among agents with heterogeneous, non-monotone valuations. We explore the existence and efficient computation of allocations that approximately satisfy either envy-freeness or…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Vittorio Bilò , Martin Loebl , Cosimo Vinci

We consider the problem of helping agents improve by setting short-term goals. Given a set of target skill levels, we assume each agent will try to improve from their initial skill level to the closest target level within reach or do…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Saba Ahmadi , Hedyeh Beyhaghi , Avrim Blum , Keziah Naggita

We consider the problem of fairly and efficiently allocating indivisible items (goods or bads) under capacity constraints. In this setting, we are given a set of categorized items. Each category has a capacity constraint (the same for all…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Hila Shoshan , Erel Segal-Halevi , Noam Hazon