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Envy-freeness up to any good (EFX) provides a strong and intuitive guarantee of fairness in the allocation of indivisible goods. But whether such allocations always exist or whether they can be efficiently computed remains an important open…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Hadi Hosseini , Sujoy Sikdar , Rohit Vaish , Lirong Xia

We introduce and analyze new envy-based fairness concepts for agents with weights that quantify their entitlements in the allocation of indivisible items. We propose two variants of weighted envy-freeness up to one item (WEF1): strong,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Mithun Chakraborty , Ayumi Igarashi , Warut Suksompong , Yair Zick

We study the problem of fairly allocating either a set of indivisible goods or a set of mixed divisible and indivisible goods (i.e., mixed goods) to agents with additive utilities, taking the best-of-both-worlds perspective of guaranteeing…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Xiaolin Bu , Zihao Li , Shengxin Liu , Xinhang Lu , Biaoshuai Tao

We prove existence of envy-free allocations in markets with heterogenous indivisible goods and money, when a given quantity is supplied from each of the goods and agents have unit demands. We depart from most of the previous literature by…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-26 Yaron Azrieli , Eran Shmaya

We study the problem of fairly allocating a set of $m$ goods among $n$ agents in the asymptotic setting, where each item's value for each agent is drawn from an underlying joint distribution. Prior works have shown that if this distribution…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Jugal Garg , Vishnu V. Narayan , Yuang Eric Shen

We study the assignment problem of objects to agents with heterogeneous preferences under distributional constraints. Each agent is associated with a publicly known type and has a private ordinal ranking over objects. We are interested in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Itai Ashlagi , Amin Saberi , Ali Shameli

We consider the problem of fair allocation of indivisible items with subsidies when agents have weighted entitlements. After highlighting several important differences from the unweighted case, we present several results concerning weighted…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Haris Aziz , Xin Huang , Kei Kimura , Indrajit Saha , Zhaohong Sun , Mashbat Suzuki , Makoto Yokoo

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

This paper studies fair division of divisible and indivisible items among agents whose cardinal preferences are not necessarily monotone. We establish the existence of fair divisions and develop approximation algorithms to compute them. We…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Siddharth Barman , Paritosh Verma

We study mechanisms for an allocation of goods among agents, where agents have no incentive to lie about their true values (incentive compatible) and for which no agent will seek to exchange outcomes with another (envy-free). Mechanisms…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2010-03-30 Edith Cohen , Michal Feldman , Amos Fiat , Haim Kaplan , Svetlana Olonetsky

We study the problem of fairly and truthfully allocating $m$ indivisible items to $n$ agents with additive preferences. Specifically, we consider truthful mechanisms outputting allocations that satisfy EF$^{+u}_{-v}$, where, in an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Xiaolin Bu , Biaoshuai Tao

The problem of fair division known as "cake cutting" has been the focus of multiple papers spanning several decades. The most prominent problem in this line of work has been to bound the query complexity of computing an envy-free outcome in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Ioannis Caragiannis , Vasilis Gkatzelis , Alexandros Psomas , Daniel Schoepflin

We study the problem of finding fair and efficient allocations of a set of indivisible items to a set of agents, where each item may be a good (positively valued) for some agents and a bad (negatively valued) for others, i.e., a mixed…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Vasilis Livanos , Ruta Mehta , Aniket Murhekar

Several resource allocation settings involve agents with unequal entitlements represented by weights. We analyze weighted fair division from an asymptotic perspective: if $m$ items are divided among $n$ agents whose utilities are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Pasin Manurangsi , Warut Suksompong , Tomohiko Yokoyama

We consider allocating indivisible goods with provable fairness guarantees that are satisfied regardless of which bundle of items each agent receives. Symmetrical allocations of this type are known to exist for divisible resources, such as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Connor Johnston , Aleksandr M. Kazachkov

We study the allocation of indivisible goods among groups of agents using well-known fairness notions such as envy-freeness and proportionality. While these notions cannot always be satisfied, we provide several bounds on the optimal…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Pasin Manurangsi , Warut Suksompong

We study the problem of fairly allocating indivisible items and a desirable heterogeneous divisible good (i.e., cake) to agents with additive utilities. In our paper, each indivisible item can be a good that yields non-negative utilities to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Haris Aziz , Xinhang Lu , Simon Mackenzie , Mashbat Suzuki

We study the problem of fair division when the resources contain both divisible and indivisible goods. Classic fairness notions such as envy-freeness (EF) and envy-freeness up to one good (EF1) cannot be directly applied to the mixed goods…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Xiaohui Bei , Zihao Li , Jinyan Liu , Shengxin Liu , Xinhang Lu

Classic cake-cutting algorithms enable people with different preferences to divide among them a heterogeneous resource (``cake''), such that the resulting division is fair according to each agent's individual preferences. However, these…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Erel Segal-Halevi , Shmuel Nitzan , Avinatan Hassidim , Yonatan Aumann

We consider the house allocation problem, where $m$ houses are to be assigned to $n$ agents so that each agent gets exactly one house. We present a polynomial-time algorithm that determines whether an envy-free assignment exists, and if so,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Jiarui Gan , Warut Suksompong , Alexandros A. Voudouris