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A constant factor approximation for Nash social welfare with subadditive valuations

Computer Science and Game Theory 2023-09-12 v1 Data Structures and Algorithms

Abstract

We present a constant-factor approximation algorithm for the Nash social welfare maximization problem with subadditive valuations accessible via demand queries. More generally, we propose a template for NSW optimization by solving a configuration-type LP and using a rounding procedure for (utilitarian) social welfare as a blackbox, which could be applicable to other variants of the problem.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2309.04656,
  title  = {A constant factor approximation for Nash social welfare with subadditive valuations},
  author = {Shahar Dobzinski and Wenzheng Li and Aviad Rubinstein and Jan Vondrak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.04656},
  year   = {2023}
}
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