Online Fair Division with Additional Information
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Abstract (arXiv)
We study the problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods to agents in an online setting, where goods arrive sequentially and must be allocated irrevocably. Focusing on the popular fairness notions of envy-freeness, proportionality, and maximin share fairness (and their approximate variants), we investigate how access to future information changes what guarantees are achievable. Without any information, we prove strong impossibility results even for approximate fairness. With normalization information (agents' total values), we provide an algorithm that achieves stronger fairness guarantees than previously known results, and show matching impossibilities for stronger notions. With frequency predictions (value multisets without order), we design a meta-algorithm that lifts a broad class of offline ''share-based'' guarantees to the online setting, matching the best-known offline bounds. Finally, we provide learning-augmented variants of both models: under noisy totals or noisy frequency predictions, our guarantees are robust and degrade gracefully with the error parameters.
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Citing papers per year: 2025: 3; 2026: 3.
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- 2026The Price of Proportional Representation in Temporal Votingcited by 3
- 2025Fairness in Repeated Matching: A Maximin Perspectivecited by 2
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- 2026EF1-Constrained Nash Social Welfare with Identical Additive Valuations: Complexity, Guarantees, and Experimentscited by 0
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- 2026Online Fair Division with Budget Constraints25 Jul 2026
- 2026The Price of Proportional Representation in Temporal Voting11 May 2026
- 2025Fairness in Repeated Matching: A Maximin Perspective6 Oct 2025
- 2025Not in My Backyard! Temporal Voting Over Public Chores12 Aug 2025
- 2025Approximate Proportionality in Online Fair Division5 Aug 2025