Settling the Maximin Share Fairness for Scheduling among Groups of Machines

Authors: Bo Li, Fangxiao Wang, Xing Shiji

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Theoretical In this paper, we first resolve this problem and design a polynomial-time algorithm that computes a 2-approximate MMS allocation via linear programming techniques. We complement this result with a hard instance, showing that no algorithm can be better than (2 1 n)-approximate MMS, where n is the number of machines. Thus the approximation ratio 2 is asymptotically tight.
Researcher Affiliation Academia 1Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China. Correspondence to: Bo Li <EMAIL>, Fangxiao Wang <EMAIL>, Shiji Xing <EMAIL>.
Pseudocode Yes Algorithm 1 Assign Items to Groups Input: Ordered homogeneous instance I = (G, M, c). Output: Allocation B = (B1, . . . , Bn).
Open Source Code No The paper does not provide any statement regarding the availability of open-source code or links to repositories for the methodology described.
Open Datasets No The paper does not mention the use of any specific publicly available datasets for experimental evaluation. It discusses theoretical models and algorithms for fair allocation.
Dataset Splits No The paper does not describe any experimental evaluation using datasets, and therefore no dataset split information is provided.
Hardware Specification No The paper describes theoretical algorithms and proofs, and does not include any experimental results, thus no hardware specifications are mentioned.
Software Dependencies No The paper describes theoretical algorithms and proofs, and does not include any experimental results, thus no specific software dependencies with version numbers are mentioned.
Experiment Setup No The paper describes theoretical algorithms and proofs, and does not include any experimental results, thus no experimental setup details like hyperparameters or training configurations are provided.