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Beating the Logarithmic Barrier for the Subadditive Maximin Share Problem

Computer Science and Game Theory 2025-06-09 v1

Abstract

We study the problem of fair allocation of indivisible goods for subadditive agents. While constant-\textsf{MMS} bounds have been given for additive and fractionally subadditive agents, the best existential bound for the case of subadditive agents is 1/O(lognloglogn)1/O(\log n \log \log n). In this work, we improve this bound to a 1/O((loglogn)2)1/O((\log \log n)^2)-\textsf{MMS} guarantee. To this end, we introduce new matching techniques and rounding methods for subadditive valuations that we believe are of independent interest and will find their applications in future work.

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@article{arxiv.2506.05613,
  title  = {Beating the Logarithmic Barrier for the Subadditive Maximin Share Problem},
  author = {Masoud Seddighin and Saeed Seddighin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.05613},
  year   = {2025}
}
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