Computing Efficient and Envy-Free Allocations under Dichotomous Preferences using SAT

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Authors
  • Ari Conati
  • Andreas Niskanen
  • R. de Haan
  • Matti Järvisalo
Publication date 2025
Event 10th workshop on Computational Social Choice
Number of pages 16
Organisations
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract
Westudy the problems of computing envy-free Pareto-efficient allocations in the context of fair allocation and hedonic games under dichotomous preferences. We establish Σp 2-completeness of deciding the existence of envy-free Pareto-efficient allocations, refining earlier related results. Wealso develop iterative SAT-based exact algorithms for computing envy-free Pareto-efficient allocations, and extend the approach to computing minimum-envy Pareto-efficient allocations under different combinations of aggregation functions. We provide open-source implementations of the algorithms and show empirically that the approach scales to computing envy-free Paretoefficient allocations up to hundreds of agents.
Document type Paper
Language English
Published at https://www.ac.tuwien.ac.at/comsoc2025/comsoc2025-papers/79.pdf
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