An EF2X allocation protocol for restricted additive valuations
H Akrami, R Rezvan, M Seddighin - arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.13676, 2022 - arxiv.org
H Akrami, R Rezvan, M Seddighin
arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.13676, 2022•arxiv.orgWe study the problem of fairly allocating a set of $ m $ indivisible goods to a set of $ n $
agents. Envy-freeness up to any good (EFX) criteria--which requires that no agent prefers
the bundle of another agent after removal of any single good--is known to be a remarkable
analogous of envy-freeness when the resource is a set of indivisible goods. In this paper, we
investigate EFX notion for the restricted additive valuations, that is, every good has some
non-negative value, and every agent is interested in only some of the goods. We introduce a …
agents. Envy-freeness up to any good (EFX) criteria--which requires that no agent prefers
the bundle of another agent after removal of any single good--is known to be a remarkable
analogous of envy-freeness when the resource is a set of indivisible goods. In this paper, we
investigate EFX notion for the restricted additive valuations, that is, every good has some
non-negative value, and every agent is interested in only some of the goods. We introduce a …
We study the problem of fairly allocating a set of indivisible goods to a set of agents. Envy-freeness up to any good (EFX) criteria -- which requires that no agent prefers the bundle of another agent after removal of any single good -- is known to be a remarkable analogous of envy-freeness when the resource is a set of indivisible goods. In this paper, we investigate EFX notion for the restricted additive valuations, that is, every good has some non-negative value, and every agent is interested in only some of the goods. We introduce a natural relaxation of EFX called EFkX which requires that no agent envies another agent after removal of any goods. Our main contribution is an algorithm that finds a complete (i.e., no good is discarded) EF2X allocation for the restricted additive valuations. In our algorithm we devise new concepts, namely "configuration" and "envy-elimination" that might be of independent interest. We also use our new tools to find an EFX allocation for restricted additive valuations that discards at most goods. This improves the state of the art for the restricted additive valuations by a factor of .
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