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Maximin Share Guarantees for Few Agents with Subadditive Valuations

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arxiv 2502.05141 v1 pith:DXE6ANLL submitted 2025-02-07 cs.GT

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We study the problem of fairly allocating a set of indivisible items among a set of agents. We consider the notion of (approximate) maximin share (MMS) and we provide an improved lower bound of $1/2$ (which is tight) for the case of subadditive valuations when the number of agents is at most four. We also provide a tight lower bound for the case of multiple agents, when they are equipped with one of two possible types of valuations. Moreover, we propose a new model that extends previously studied models in the area of fair division, which will hopefully give rise to further research. We demonstrate the usefulness of this model by employing it as a technical tool to derive our main result, and we provide a thorough analysis for this model for the case of three agents. Finally, we provide an improved impossibility result for the case of three submodular agents.

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  1. From multi-allocations to allocations, with subadditive valuations

    cs.GT 2025-06 conditional novelty 7.0 of 10

    A d-multi-allocation with subadditive valuations can be converted to an allocation losing only a factor of about d, yielding an Omega(1/log log n)-MMS guarantee.

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