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Envy-free up to one good (EF1) and envy-free up to any good (EFX) are two well-known extensions of envy-freeness for the case of indivisible items. It is shown that EF1 can always be guaranteed for agents with subadditive valuations. In…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Alireza Farhadi , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Mohamad Latifian , Masoud Seddighin , Hadi Yami

We present a simple local search algorithm for computing EFX (envy-free up to any good) allocations of $m$ indivisible goods among $n$ agents with additive valuations. EFX is a compelling fairness notion, and whether such allocations always…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Simina Brânzei

We study the fair division problem and the existence of allocations satisfying the fairness criterion envy-freeness up to any item (EFX). The existence of EFX allocations is a major open problem in the fair division literature. We consider…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Xiaolin Bu , Jiaxin Song , Ziqi Yu

Fair division is the problem of allocating a set of items among agents in a fair manner. One of the most sought-after fairness notions is envy-freeness (EF), requiring that no agent envies another's allocation. When items are indivisible,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Jinghan A Zeng , Ruta Mehta

Envy-freeness up to one good (EF1) is a well-studied fairness notion for indivisible goods that addresses pairwise envy by the removal of at most one good. In the worst case, each pair of agents might require the (hypothetical) removal of a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Hadi Hosseini , Sujoy Sikdar , Rohit Vaish , Jun Wang , Lirong Xia

In the allocation of indivisible goods, a prominent fairness notion is envy-freeness up to one good (EF1). We initiate the study of reachability problems in fair division by investigating the problem of whether one EF1 allocation can be…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Ayumi Igarashi , Naoyuki Kamiyama , Warut Suksompong , Sheung Man Yuen

We study fair division of goods under the broad class of generalized assignment constraints. In this constraint framework, the sizes and values of the goods are agent-specific, and one needs to allocate the goods among the agents fairly…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Siddharth Barman , Arindam Khan , Sudarshan Shyam , K. V. N. Sreenivas

We consider the classic problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods among agents with additive valuation functions and explore the connection between two prominent fairness notions: maximum Nash welfare (MNW) and envy-freeness up to any…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Georgios Amanatidis , Georgios Birmpas , Aris Filos-Ratsikas , Alexandros Hollender , Alexandros A. Voudouris

We introduce a model of fair division with market values, where indivisible goods must be partitioned among agents with (additive) subjective valuations, and each good additionally has a market value. The market valuation can be viewed as a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Siddharth Barman , Soroush Ebadian , Mohamad Latifian , Nisarg Shah

We study the problem of fairly and efficiently allocating indivisible goods among agents with additive valuations. We focus on envy-freeness up to any good (EFX) -- an important fairness notion in fair division of indivisible goods. A…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Vladimir Davidiuk , Yuriy Dementiev , Artur Ignatiev , Danil Sagunov

We study the efficiency of fair allocations using the well-studied price of fairness concept, which quantitatively measures the worst-case efficiency loss when imposing fairness constraints. Previous works provided partial results on the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Zihao Li , Shengxin Liu , Xinhang Lu , Biaoshuai Tao , Yichen Tao

We study a fair allocation problem of indivisible items under additive externalities in which each agent also receives values from items that are assigned to other agents. We propose several new fairness concepts. We extend the well-studied…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Haris Aziz , Warut Suksompong , Zhaohong Sun , Toby Walsh

We study the problem of computing \emph{fair} divisions of a set of indivisible goods among agents with \emph{additive} valuations. For the past many decades, the literature has explored various notions of fairness, that can be primarily…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Hannaneh Akrami , Nidhi Rathi

We study the problem of allocating indivisible goods among agents with additive valuation functions to achieve both fairness and efficiency under the constraint that each agent receives exactly the same number of goods (the \emph{balanced…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Yasushi Kawase , Ryoga Mahara

We study the problem of fairly allocating a set of indivisible goods among $n$ agents with additive valuations. Envy-freeness up to any good (EFX) is arguably the most compelling fairness notion in this context. However, the existence of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Bhaskar Ray Chaudhury , Jugal Garg , Kurt Mehlhorn , Ruta Mehta , Pranabendu Misra

Fair allocation of indivisible goods is a fundamental problem at the interface of economics and computer science. Traditional approaches focus either on randomized allocations that are fair in expectation or deterministic allocations that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Telikepalli Kavitha , Surya Panchapakesan , Rohit Vaish , Vignesh Viswanathan , Jatin Yadav

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 indivisible goods between groups of agents using the recently introduced relaxations of envy-freeness. We consider the existence of fair allocations under different assumptions on the valuations of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Maria Kyropoulou , Warut Suksompong , Alexandros A. Voudouris

We formulate the problem of fair and efficient completion of indivisible goods, defined as follows: Given a partial allocation of indivisible goods among agents, does there exist an allocation of the remaining goods (i.e., a completion)…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Vishwa Prakash HV , Ayumi Igarashi , Rohit Vaish

Several fairness concepts have been proposed recently in attempts to approximate envy-freeness in settings with indivisible goods. Among them, the concept of envy-freeness up to any item (EFX) is arguably the closest to envy-freeness.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Ioannis Caragiannis , Nick Gravin , Xin Huang