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关于追求家务的 EFX:不存在性与近似

On The Pursuit of EFX for Chores: Non-Existence and Approximations

Vasilis Christoforidis, Christodoulos Santorinaios

AI总结:

本文研究家务的 EFX 公平分配,证明三智能体六项家务在超可加成本下 EFX 可能不存在且近似比无界、存在性判定为 NP 完全,并给出小规模存在性及三可加智能体的条件近似界。

摘要:

我们研究将一组家务公平分配给一组智能体的问题。对于物品和家务而言,是否存在“至多任意一项无嫉妒”(EFX)分配都是一个长期悬而未决的问题。我们通过对后者给出否定回答解决了这一问题:我们提出一个简单构造,在将六项家务分配给三名具有超可加成本函数的智能体时,该构造不存在任何 EFX 解,从而证明了物品与负物品之间的分离结果。事实上,我们揭示了一个更深刻的洞见,表明该实例具有无界的近似比。此外,我们证明判定 EFX 分配是否存在是 NP 完全的。在积极方面,当物品数量至多为 $n+2$ 时,我们在一般单调成本函数下确立了 EFX 分配的存在性。随后,我们将注意力转向可加成本函数。我们采用一个通用框架,以改进在被充分研究的三名可加智能体情形中的近似保证,并给出若干利用序数信息的条件近似界。

英文摘要:

We study the problem of fairly allocating a set of chores to a group of agents. The existence of envy-free up to any item (EFX) allocations is a long-standing open question for both goods and chores. We resolve this question by providing a negative answer for the latter, presenting a simple construction that admits no EFX solutions for allocating six items to three agents equipped with superadditive cost functions, thus proving a separation result between goods and bads. In fact, we uncover a deeper insight, showing that the instance has unbounded approximation ratio. Moreover, we show that deciding whether an EFX allocation exists is NP-complete. On the positive side, we establish the existence of EFX allocations under general monotone cost functions when the number of items is at most $n+2$. We then shift our attention to additive cost functions. We employ a general framework in order to improve the approximation guarantees in the well-studied case of three additive agents, and provide several conditional approximation bounds that leverage ordinal information.

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