Multilevel Fair Allocation under Additive Preferences
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arXiv:2608.24400v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study multilevel fair resource allocation with tree-structured hierarchical relations among agents. At each level, the problem can be viewed locally as allocating an agent's bundle to its children, the overall allocation being a trace of this process iterated down to the leaves. Assuming that internal nodes' utilities are the utilitarian welfare of their children, and the leaves have classical additive utilities over items, we first propose multilevel adaptations of usual envy-based fairness notions (e.g., WEF1). We present three adaptations
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2608.24400v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study multilevel fair resource allocation with tree-structured hierarchical relations among agents.
- At each level, the problem can be viewed locally as allocating an agent's bundle to its children, the overall allocation being a trace of this process iterated down to the leaves.
- Assuming that internal nodes' utilities are the utilitarian welfare of their children, and the leaves have classical additive utilities over items, we first propose multilevel adaptations of usual envy-based fairness notions (e.g., WEF1).
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“Multilevel Fair Allocation under Additive Preferences” highlights the need for repeatable measurement rather than a single impressive demonstration. Independent validation across datasets and clearly stated limitations determine whether a result can guide product decisions.
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