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The maximin share ($\textsf{MMS}$) is the most prominent share-based fairness notion in the fair allocation of indivisible goods. Recent years have seen significant efforts to improve the approximation guarantees for $\textsf{MMS}$ for…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Ehsan Heidari , Alireza Kaviani , Masoud Seddighin , AmirMohammad Shahrezaei

We consider fair division of a set of indivisible goods among $n$ agents with additive valuations using the fairness notion of maximin share (MMS). MMS is the most popular share-based notion, in which an agent finds an allocation fair to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Hannaneh Akrami , Jugal Garg , Eklavya Sharma , Setareh Taki

We consider fair allocations of indivisible goods to agents with general monotone valuations. We observe that it is useful to introduce a new share-based fairness notion, the {\em residual maximin share} (RMMS). This share is {\em feasible}…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Uriel Feige

We study fair allocation of indivisible items, where the items are furnished with a set of conflicts, and agents are not permitted to receive conflicting items. This kind of constraint captures, for example, participating in events that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Halvard Hummel , Magnus Lie Hetland

We consider the problem of allocating indivisible goods fairly among n agents who have additive and submodular valuations for the goods. Our fairness guarantees are in terms of the maximin share, that is defined to be the maximum value that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Siddharth Barman , Sanath Kumar Krishnamurthy

The problem of fair division of indivisible goods is a fundamental problem of social choice. Recently, the problem was extended to the case when goods form a graph and the goal is to allocate goods to agents so that each agent's bundle…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Zbigniew Lonc , Miroslaw Truszczynski

We study fair division of indivisible chores among $n$ agents with additive cost functions using the popular fairness notion of maximin share (MMS). Since MMS allocations do not always exist for more than two agents, the goal has been to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Jugal Garg , Xin Huang , Erel Segal-Halevi

We consider the fair division of indivisible items using the maximin shares measure. Recent work on the topic has focused on extending results beyond the class of additive valuation functions. In this spirit, we study the case where the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Zhentao Li , Adrian Vetta

We study the fair allocation of indivisible goods among agents with additive valuations. The fair division literature has traditionally focused on two broad classes of fairness notions: envy-based notions and share-based notions. Within the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Hannaneh Akrami , Timo Reichert

We study the problem of fairly allocating a set of m indivisible chores (items with non-positive value) to n agents. We consider the desirable fairness notion of 1-out-of-d maximin share (MMS) -- the minimum value that an agent can…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Hadi Hosseini , Andrew Searns , Erel Segal-Halevi

In fair division of indivisible goods, $\ell$-out-of-$d$ maximin share (MMS) is the value that an agent can guarantee by partitioning the goods into $d$ bundles and choosing the $\ell$ least preferred bundles. Most existing works aim to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Hadi Hosseini , Andrew Searns , Erel Segal-Halevi

We consider Max-min Share (MmS) allocations of items both in the case where items are goods (positive utility) and when they are chores (negative utility). We show that fair allocations of goods and chores have some fundamental connections…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-07 Haris Aziz , Gerhard Rauchecker , Guido Schryen , Toby Walsh

We study fair division of indivisible goods under the maximin share (MMS) fairness criterion in settings where agents are grouped into a small number of types, with agents within each type having identical valuations. For the special case…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Jugal Garg , Parnian Shahkar

We study the allocation of indivisible goods that form an undirected graph and quantify the loss of fairness when we impose a constraint that each agent must receive a connected subgraph. Our focus is on well-studied fairness notions…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Xiaohui Bei , Ayumi Igarashi , Xinhang Lu , Warut Suksompong

We initiate the study of indivisible chore allocation for agents with asymmetric shares. The fairness concept we focus on is the weighted natural generalization of maxmin share: WMMS fairness and OWMMS fairness. We first highlight the fact…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Haris Aziz , Hau Chan , Bo Li

We consider the problem of fairly allocating a set of indivisible items under the criteria of the maximin share guarantee. Specifically, we study approximation of maximin share allocations under hereditary set system valuations, in which…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Halvard Hummel

We introduce and formalize the notion of resource augmentation for maximin share (MMS) fairness for the allocation of indivisible goods. Given an instance with $n$ agents and $m$ goods, we ask how many copies of the goods should be added in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Hannaneh Akrami , Siddharth Barman , Alon Eden , Michal Feldman , Amos Fiat , Yoav Gal-Tzur , Satyanand Rammohan , Aditi Sethia

We study the problem of fair allocation of a set of indivisible items among agents with additive valuations, under cardinality constraints. In this setting, the items are partitioned into categories, each with its own limit on the number of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Halvard Hummel , Magnus Lie Hetland

This work addresses fair allocation of indivisible items in settings wherein it is feasible to create copies of resources or dispose of tasks. We establish that exact maximin share (MMS) fairness can be achieved via limited duplication of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Siddharth Barman , Satyanand Rammohan , Aditi Sethia

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