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EFX Under Budget Constraint

  • Sijia Dai
  • , Guichen Gao
  • , Shengxin Liu
  • , Boon Han Lim
  • , Li Ning
  • , Yicheng Xu
  • , Yong Zhang*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology
  • Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen
  • Tunku Abdul Rahman University

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Abstract

Fair division captures many real-world scenarios and plays an important role in many research fields including computer science, economy, operations research, etc. For the problem of indivisible goods allocation, it is well-known that an allocation satisfying the maximum Nash Social Welfare (Max-NSW) is envy-free up to one good (EF1), which is an important fairness concept. However, EF1 is often considered to be somewhat weak since one may remove the most valuable good. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between the Max-NSW allocation and a stronger fairness concept, envy-free up to any good (EFX), which means the envyness disappears after the removal of the least valuable good. We focus on the budget-feasible variant in which each agent has a budget to cover the total cost of goods she gets. We show that a Max-NSW allocation guarantees 14 -EFX when agents’ value are in the Binary { 0, 1 }. Moreover, we provide an algorithm to find a budget-feasible EFX allocation for the Binary variant.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationFrontiers of Algorithmic Wisdom - International Joint Conference, IJTCS-FAW 2022, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsMinming Li, Xiaoming Sun
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages3-14
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783031207952
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Externally publishedYes
EventInternational Joint Conference on Theoretical Computer Science-Frontier of Algorithmic Wisdom, IJTCS-FAW 2022 - Hong Kong, China
Duration: 15 Aug 202219 Aug 2022

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13461 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceInternational Joint Conference on Theoretical Computer Science-Frontier of Algorithmic Wisdom, IJTCS-FAW 2022
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHong Kong
Period15/08/2219/08/22

Keywords

  • Budget constraint
  • Envy-free up to any good
  • Fair division
  • Maximum nash social welfare

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