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We investigate the query complexity of the fair allocation of indivisible goods. For two agents with arbitrary monotonic utilities, we design an algorithm that computes an allocation satisfying envy-freeness up to one good (EF1), a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Hoon Oh , Ariel D. Procaccia , Warut Suksompong

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 indivisible items on a path among agents. The objective is to find a fair and efficient allocation in which each agent's bundle forms a contiguous block on the line. We say that an instance is \emph{$(a,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Yasushi Kawase , Bodhayan Roy , Mohammad Azharuddin Sanpui

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 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

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 fair allocation of indivisible goods among additive agents with feasibility constraints. In these settings, every agent is restricted to get a bundle among a specified set of feasible bundles. Such scenarios have been of great…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Amitay Dror , Michal Feldman , Erel Segal-Halevi

We study the problem of allocating indivisible items to agents with additive valuations, under the additional constraint that bundles must be connected in an underlying item graph. Previous work has considered the existence and complexity…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Ayumi Igarashi , Dominik Peters

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 fair allocation of indivisible goods among a group of agents, aiming to limit the envy between any two agents. The central open problem in this literature, which has proven to be extremely challenging, is regarding the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Arash Ashuri , Vasilis Gkatzelis , Alkmini Sgouritsa

We study the problem of allocating a set of indivisible goods to a set of agents with additive valuation functions, aiming to achieve approximate envy-freeness up to any good ($\alpha$-EFX). The state-of-the-art results on the problem…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Georgios Amanatidis , Aris Filos-Ratsikas , Alkmini Sgouritsa

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 allocation of undesirable indivisible items, or chores. While the case of desirable indivisible items (or goods) is extensively studied, with many results known for different notions of fairness, less is known about the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Umang Bhaskar , A. R. Sricharan , Rohit Vaish

The existence of EFX allocations is one of the most significant open questions in fair division. Recent work by Christodolou, Fiat, Koutsoupias, and Sgouritsa ("Fair allocation in graphs", EC 2023) establishes the existence of EFX…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Umang Bhaskar , Yeshwant Pandit

Allocating $m$ indivisible goods among $n$ agents is a fundamental task in fair division. Recent work of Garg and Psomas [AAMAS 2025] initiated the study of parallel algorithms for envy-free up to one good (EF1) allocations, giving NC…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Kishen N Gowda , D Ellis Hershkowitz , Richard Z Huang , Gregory Kehne

Motivated by real-world applications, we study the fair allocation of graphical resources, where the resources are the vertices in a graph. Upon receiving a set of resources, an agent's utility equals the weight of a maximum matching in the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Zheng Chen , Bo Li , Minming Li , Guochuan Zhang

In this paper, we study how to fairly allocate a set of m indivisible chores to a group of n agents, each of which has a general additive cost function on the items. Since envy-free (EF) allocations are not guaranteed to exist, we consider…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Shengwei Zhou , Xiaowei Wu

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

We study the problem of allocating a set of indivisible goods among a set of agents in a fair and efficient manner. An allocation is said to be fair if it is envy-free up to one good (EF1), which means that each agent prefers its own bundle…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Siddharth Barman , Sanath Kumar Krishnamurthy , Rohit Vaish

We study envy-free up to any item (EFX) allocations on simple graphs where vertices and edges represent agents and items respectively. An agent (vertex) is only interested in items (edges) that are incident to her and all other items always…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Bo Li , Minming Li , Tianze Wei , Zekai Wu , Yu Zhou