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The facility location with strategic agents is a canonical problem in the literature on mechanism design without money. Recently, Agrawal et. al. considered this problem in the context of machine learning augmented algorithms, where the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Qingyun Chen , Nick Gravin , Sungjin Im

We propose a new family of fairness definitions for classification problems that combine some of the best properties of both statistical and individual notions of fairness. We posit not only a distribution over individuals, but also a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Michael Kearns , Aaron Roth , Saeed Sharifi-Malvajerdi

We study ordinal approximation algorithms for maximum-weight bipartite matchings. Such algorithms only know the ordinal preferences of the agents/nodes in the graph for their preferred matches, but must compete with fully omniscient…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Elliot Anshelevich , Wennan Zhu

We study fair allocation of indivisible goods to agents with unequal entitlements. Fair allocation has been the subject of many studies in both divisible and indivisible settings. Our emphasis is on the case where the goods are indivisible…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Alireza Farhadi , Mohammad Ghodsi , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Sebastien Lahaie , David Pennock , Masoud Seddighin , Saeed Seddighin , Hadi Yami

We study the problem of allocating indivisible resources under the connectivity constraints of a graph $G$. This model, initially introduced by Bouveret et al. (published in IJCAI, 2017), effectively encompasses a diverse array of scenarios…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Halvard Hummel , Ayumi Igarashi

We consider a stochastic convex optimization problem that requires minimizing a sum of misspecified agentspecific expectation-valued convex functions over the intersection of a collection of agent-specific convex sets. This misspecification…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-22 Aswin Kannan , Angelia Nedich , Uday V. Shanbhag

Machine Learning algorithms are ubiquitous in key decision-making contexts such as justice, healthcare and finance, which has spawned a great demand for fairness in these procedures. However, the theoretical properties of such models in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-14 Arturo Pérez-Peralta , Sandra Benítez-Peña , Rosa E. Lillo

We introduce the concept of accessibility and prove that any convex body $X$ in $\mathbb R^d$ is accessible with relevant constants depending on $d$ only. This property leads to a new algorithm which may be considered as a natural…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-02-27 Benoit Collins , Termeh Kousha , Rafał Kulik , Tomasz Szarek , Karol Życzkowski

Information is a valuable asset for agents in socio-economic systems, a significant part of the information being entailed into the very network of connections between agents. The different interlinkages patterns that agents establish may,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Paolo Barucca , Guido Caldarelli , Tiziano Squartini

In order to monitor and prevent bias in AI systems we can use a wide range of (statistical) fairness measures. However, it is mathematically impossible to optimize for all of these measures at the same time. In addition, optimizing a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Stefan Buijsman

In machine learning fairness, training models that minimize disparity across different sensitive groups often leads to diminished accuracy, a phenomenon known as the fairness-accuracy trade-off. The severity of this trade-off inherently…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-12 Muhammad Faaiz Taufiq , Jean-Francois Ton , Yang Liu

In many real-world situations, data is distributed across multiple self-interested agents. These agents can collaborate to build a machine learning model based on data from multiple agents, potentially reducing the error each experiences.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Kate Donahue , Jon Kleinberg

Recent empirical work demonstrates that online advertisement can exhibit bias in the delivery of ads across users even when all advertisers bid in a non-discriminatory manner. We study the design of ad auctions that, given fair bids, are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Shuchi Chawla , Meena Jagadeesan

When agents interact with people as part of a team, fairness becomes an important factor. Prior work has proposed fairness metrics based on teammates' capabilities for task allocation within human-agent teams. However, most metrics only…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Mai Lee Chang , Kim Baraka , Greg Trafton , Zach Lalu Vazhekatt , Andrea Lockerd Thomaz

The introduction of a metric onto the space of parameters in models in Statistical Mechanics and beyond gives an alternative perspective on their phase structure. In such a geometrization, the scalar curvature, R, plays a central role. A…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. Janke , D. A. Johnston , R. Kenna

Real-world applications of machine learning tools in high-stakes domains are often regulated to be fair, in the sense that the predicted target should satisfy some quantitative notion of parity with respect to a protected attribute.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Han Zhao , Geoffrey J. Gordon

We consider the impact of fairness requirements on the social efficiency of truthful mechanisms for trade, focusing on Bayesian bilateral-trade settings. Unlike the full information case in which all gains-from-trade can be realized and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Moshe Babaioff , Yiding Feng , Noam Manaker Morag

We study a sequential decision-making model where a set of items is repeatedly matched to the same set of agents over multiple rounds. The objective is to determine a sequence of matchings that either maximizes the utility of the least…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Eugene Lim , Tzeh Yuan Neoh , Nicholas Teh

Ranking plays a central role in connecting users and providers in Information Retrieval (IR) systems, making provider-side fairness an important challenge. While recent research has begun to address fairness in ranking, most existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yiteng Tu , Weihang Su , Shuguang Han , Yiqun Liu , Qingyao Ai

We consider the fair allocation of indivisible items to several agents with additional conflict constraints. These are represented by a conflict graph where each item corresponds to a vertex of the graph and edges in the graph represent…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Nina Chiarelli , Matjaž Krnc , Martin Milanič , Ulrich Pferschy , Joachim Schauer