We investigate the asymptotic behavior of max-min fair allocations for indivisible goods under i.i.d. random utilities. For $N$ agents and $K$ goods with utilities ${\mU_{i,j}}$ drawn independently from a common distribution $F$, we derive asymptotic characterizations of the max-min value in the balanced case $K=N$ (and in $K=LN$ extensions) via distributional quantiles. We then study the efficiency impact of max-min fairness by comparing the resulting total welfare with the optimal sum welfare. For distributions with sufficiently light tails, we prove that the relative efficiency loss converges to zero as the market grows, implying that max-min fairness incurs negligible welfare loss in large random instances for a broad class of distributions.
We study randomized algorithms for the fully online allocation of indivisible goods among $n\ge2$ agents with nonnegative additive valuations. Goods arrive sequentially and must be allocated immediately and irrevocably, with only $n$ known in advance. Since exact ex-ante envy freeness and proportionality are readily ac...
We study a fractional assignment setting where $n$ objects are to be assigned to $n$ agents with unit capacity, and each agent specifies an ideal distribution over the objects. Unlike in classic random assignment, these ideal distributions are not necessarily degenerate, as agents may prefer a mixture of objects rather...
Yasushi Kawase, Warut Suksompong, Hanna Sumita et al.· 0 citations
We study the minimum monetary subsidy required for exact envy-freeness in allocating $m_n$ indivisible goods to $n$ agents. Valuations are additive, item values are i.i.d. from a distribution on $[0,1]$ with density bounded above and away from zero, and all agents value money equally. We consider $n\to\infty$ with $m_n...
We study the problem of fair allocation when agents have dichotomous submodular preferences over groups of, rather than individual, items. These preferences naturally extend existing models, and have a natural interpretation in settings such as course allocation. We show that this seemingly minor extension results in c...
Soumyajit Pyne, V. Viswanathan, Wen-Hao Yang et al.· 0 citations
Online fair division captures allocation problems in which indivisible resources arrive over time and must be assigned before future resources are known. Understanding what fairness remains achievable when allocation decisions are immediate and irrevocable is a fundamental question in this setting. We study determinist...
We study the relationship between fair division with $\textit{subsidies}$ and $\textit{best-of-both-worlds}$ (BoBW) fairness for indivisible items. We prove a general reduction of BoBW existence to envy-freeability. Specifically, for any scale-free ex-post property $P$ (e.g., EF1, EFX, PO) and any scale-free valuation...
S. Panchapakesan, Rohit Vaish· 0 citations
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