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基于最优运输的最优效率-嫉妒权衡

Optimal Efficiency-Envy Trade-Off via Optimal Transport

Columbia University(哥伦比亚大学)

Steven Yin, Christian Kroer

摘要:

我们考虑的问题分配的项目$n$收件人,每个收件人必须分配一个固定的,预先指定的部分,所有项目,同时确保每个收件人不会经历太多的嫉妒。我们表明,这个问题可以制定为半离散的最优运输(OT)问题,在这种情况下,其解决方案的结构有一个简洁的表示和一个简单的几何解释的一个变种。与现有文献将无嫉妒视为硬约束不同,我们的公式允许我们不断地在效率和嫉妒之间进行\emph{optimally}权衡。此外,我们研究了我们的OT为基础的分配政策的空间的统计特性,通过显示一个多项式约束的样本的数量需要近似的最佳解决方案的样本。我们的方法是适合于大规模的公平分配问题,如献血匹配问题,我们在数值上表明,它表现良好的现实数据模拟器。

英文摘要:

We consider the problem of allocating a distribution of items to $n$ recipients where each recipient has to be allocated a fixed, prespecified fraction of all items, while ensuring that each recipient does not experience too much envy. We show that this problem can be formulated as a variant of the semi-discrete optimal transport (OT) problem, whose solution structure in this case has a concise representation and a simple geometric interpretation. Unlike existing literature that treats envy-freeness as a hard constraint, our formulation allows us to \emph{optimally} trade off efficiency and envy continuously. Additionally, we study the statistical properties of the space of our OT based allocation policies by showing a polynomial bound on the number of samples needed to approximate the optimal solution from samples. Our approach is suitable for large-scale fair allocation problems such as the blood donation matching problem, and we show numerically that it performs well on a prior realistic data simulator.

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