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We study the problem of fair online resource allocation via non-monetary mechanisms, where multiple agents repeatedly share a resource without monetary transfers. Previous work has shown that every agent can guarantee $1/2$ of their ideal…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-27 David X. Lin , Daniel Hall , Giannis Fikioris , Siddhartha Banerjee , Éva Tardos

We study the problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods to agents in an online setting, where goods arrive sequentially and must be allocated irrevocably. Focusing on the popular fairness notions of envy-freeness, proportionality, and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Tzeh Yuan Neoh , Jannik Peters , Nicholas Teh

We introduce and study a multi-class online resource allocation problem with group fairness guarantees. The problem involves allocating a fixed amount of resources to a sequence of agents, each belonging to a specific group. The primary…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Faraz Zargari , Hossein Nekouyan Jazi , Bo Sun , Xiaoqi Tan

Many decision processes run for a long and unknown duration: in each round new requests arrive, an irrevocable choice must be made immediately, and the system is judged by ongoing fairness requirements. Examples include food banks…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Ido Kahana , Erel Segal-Halevi , Noam Hazon

The theory of discrete-time online learning has been successfully applied in many problems that involve sequential decision-making under uncertainty. However, in many applications including contractual hiring in online freelancing platforms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Semih Cayci , Swati Gupta , Atilla Eryilmaz

We consider the allocation of limited resources to heterogeneous customers who arrive in an online fashion. We would like to allocate the resources "fairly", so that no group of customers is marginalized in terms of their overall service…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Will Ma , Pan Xu , Yifan Xu

We consider a fair resource allocation problem in the no-regret setting against an unrestricted adversary. The objective is to allocate resources equitably among several agents in an online fashion so that the difference of the aggregate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Abhishek Sinha , Ativ Joshi , Rajarshi Bhattacharjee , Cameron Musco , Mohammad Hajiesmaili

We design online algorithms for the fair allocation of public goods to a set of $N$ agents over a sequence of $T$ rounds and focus on improving their performance using predictions. In the basic model, a public good arrives in each round,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Siddhartha Banerjee , Vasilis Gkatzelis , Safwan Hossain , Billy Jin , Evi Micha , Nisarg Shah

Online allocation problems with resource constraints have a rich history in operations research. In this paper, we introduce the \emph{regularized online allocation problem}, a variant that includes a non-linear regularizer acting on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-08 Santiago Balseiro , Haihao Lu , Vahab Mirrokni

Motivated primarily by applications in cloud computing, we study a simple, yet powerful, online allocation problem in which jobs of varying durations arrive over continuous time and must be assigned immediately and irrevocably to one of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Farbod Ekbatani , Yiding Feng , Ian Kash , Rad Niazadeh

In this paper, we consider an online resource allocation problem where a decision maker accepts or rejects incoming customer requests irrevocably in order to maximize expected reward given limited resources. At each time, a new…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Guanting Chen , Xiaocheng Li , Yinyu Ye

We consider a practically motivated variant of the canonical online fair allocation problem: a decision-maker has a budget of perishable resources to allocate over a fixed number of rounds. Each round sees a random number of arrivals, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Siddhartha Banerjee , Chamsi Hssaine , Sean R. Sinclair

In an online fair allocation problem, a sequence of indivisible items arrives online and needs to be allocated to offline agents immediately and irrevocably. In our paper, we study the online allocation of either goods or chores. We employ…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Yuanyuan Wang , Tianze Wei

A set of divisible resources becomes available over a sequence of rounds and needs to be allocated immediately and irrevocably. Our goal is to distribute these resources to maximize fairness and efficiency. Achieving any non-trivial…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Vasilis Gkatzelis , Alexandros Psomas , Xizhi Tan

We initiate a formal study of fairness for the $k$-server problem, where the objective is not only to minimize the total movement cost, but also to distribute the cost equitably among servers. We first define a general notion of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Mohammadreza Daneshvaramoli , Helia Karisani , Mohammad Hajiesmaili , Shahin Kamali , Cameron Musco

We study the online multi-class selection problem with group fairness guarantees, where limited resources must be allocated to sequentially arriving agents. Our work addresses two key limitations in the existing literature. First, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Faraz Zargari , Hossein Nekouyan , Lyndon Hallett , Bo Sun , Xiaoqi Tan

Online resource allocation (ORA) is a fundamental framework for sequential decision-making problems under budget constraints, with applications ranging from online advertising to revenue management. In this work, we study a broader setting…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Eleonora Fidelia Chiefari , Francesco Emanuele Stradi , Matteo Castiglioni , Alberto Marchesi

We explore an active learning approach for dynamic fair resource allocation problems. Unlike previous work that assumes full feedback from all agents on their allocations, we consider feedback from a select subset of agents at each epoch of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Riddhiman Bhattacharya , Thanh Nguyen , Will Wei Sun , Mohit Tawarmalani

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 describe mechanisms for the allocation of a scarce resource among multiple users in a way that is efficient, fair, and strategy-proof, but when users do not know their resource requirements. The mechanism is repeated for multiple rounds…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-17 Kirthevasan Kandasamy , Gur-Eyal Sela , Joseph E Gonzalez , Michael I Jordan , Ion Stoica
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