Epistemic EFX Allocations Exist for Monotone Valuations

Authors: Hannaneh Akrami, Nidhi Rathi

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Research Type Theoretical We answer the above question affirmatively and establish computational hardness and information-theoretic lower bounds for finding EEFX allocations: 1. EEFX allocations are guaranteed to exist for any fair division instance with an arbitrary number of agents having general monotone valuations; see Theorem 3.5. 2. Exponentially (in the number of goods) many valuation queries is required by any deterministic algorithm to compute an EEFX allocation for fair division instances with an arbitrary number of agents with identical submodular valuations; see Theorem 4.7. 3. The problem of computing EEFX allocations for fair division instances with an arbitrary number of agents having identical submodular valuations is PLS-hard; see Theorem 4.8.
Researcher Affiliation Academia Hannaneh Akrami1,2, Nidhi Rathi1,3 1Max Planck Institute for Informatics 2Graduiertenschule Informatik, Universit at des Saarlandes 3Saarland Informatics Campus EMAIL, EMAIL
Pseudocode Yes Algorithm 1: ALG = EEFX(I) Input: A fair division instance I = (N, M, V) where agent i N = [n] has monotone valuation vi over the set of items M Output: An allocation X = (X1, X2, . . . , Xn)
Open Source Code No The paper does not contain any explicit statements about code availability, nor does it provide links to a code repository.
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