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Approximation Algorithm for Computing Budget-Feasible EF1 Allocations | |
Gan, Jiarui1![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | |
2023-05 | |
Conference Name | 21st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2023) |
Conference Date | 29 May 2023 - 2 June 2023 |
Conference Place | London, United Kingdom |
Publisher | International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS) |
Abstract | We study algorithmic fairness in a budget-feasible resource allocation problem. In this problem, a set of items with varied sizes and values are to be allocated to a group of agents, while each agent has a budget constraint on the total size of items she can receive. An envy-free (EF) allocation is defined in this context as one in which no agent envies another for the items they get and, in addition, no agent envies the charity, who is automatically endowed with all the unallocated items. Since EF allocations barely exist even without budget constraints, we are interested in the relaxed notion of envy-freeness up to one item (EF1). In this paper, we further the recent progress towards understanding the existence and approximations of EF1 (or EF2) allocations. We propose a polynomial-time algorithm that computes a 1/2-approximate EF1 allocation for an arbitrary number of agents with heterogeneous budgets. For the uniform-budget and two-agent cases, we present a polynomial-time algorithm that computes an exact EF1 allocation. We also consider the large budget setting, where the item sizes are infinitesimal relative to the agents' budgets. We show that both the allocations that maximize the Nash social welfare and the allocations that our main algorithm computes are EF1 in the limit. © 2023 International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (www.ifaamas.org). All rights reserved. |
Keyword | Budget-feasible Envy-free Up To One Item Fair Allocation |
Language | 英語English |
Scopus ID | 2-s2.0-85171268808 |
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Document Type | Conference paper |
Collection | THE STATE KEY LABORATORY OF INTERNET OF THINGS FOR SMART CITY (UNIVERSITY OF MACAU) |
Corresponding Author | Gan, Jiarui; Li, Bo; Wu, Xiaowei |
Affiliation | 1.University of Oxford 2.Hong Kong Polytechnic University 3.IOTSC, University of Macau |
Corresponding Author Affilication | University of Macau |
Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Gan, Jiarui,Li, Bo,Wu, Xiaowei. Approximation Algorithm for Computing Budget-Feasible EF1 Allocations[C]:International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS), 2023. |
APA | Gan, Jiarui., Li, Bo., & Wu, Xiaowei (2023). Approximation Algorithm for Computing Budget-Feasible EF1 Allocations. . |
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