Maximizing Nash Social Welfare in 2-Value Instances

Authors: Hannaneh Akrami, Bhaskar Ray Chaudhury, Martin Hoefer, Kurt Mehlhorn, Marco Schmalhofer, Golnoosh Shahkarami, Giovanna Varricchio, Quentin Vermande, Ernest van Wijland4760-4767

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Theoretical In this work, we design an algorithm to compute an optimal allocation in polynomial time if p divides q, i.e., when p = 1 and q N after appropriate scaling. The problem is NP-hard whenever p and q are coprime and p 3. In terms of approximation, we present positive and negative results for general p and q. We show that our algorithm obtains an approximation ratio of at most 1.0345. Moreover, we prove that the problem is APX-hard, with a lower bound of 1.000015 achieved at p/q = 4/5.
Researcher Affiliation Academia 1 Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Graduiertenschule Informatik, Universit at des Saarlandes 2 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Department of Computer Science 3 Goethe University Frankfurt, Institute for Computer Science 4 Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Universit at des Saarlandes 5 Ecole Normale Sup erieure, Paris
Pseudocode Yes Algorithm 1: Algorithm TWOVALUEAPPROX; Algorithm 2: Algorithm BALANCE
Open Source Code No The paper does not provide any statement or link indicating that the source code for the described methodology is publicly available.
Open Datasets No The paper is theoretical and does not describe experiments using datasets. Therefore, it does not provide information about public or open datasets.
Dataset Splits No The paper is theoretical and does not involve empirical data or experiments, so it does not discuss training, validation, or test splits.
Hardware Specification No The paper describes theoretical algorithms and proofs. It does not mention any specific hardware used for running experiments.
Software Dependencies No The paper describes theoretical algorithms and mathematical proofs. It does not mention specific software, libraries, or their version numbers that would be used for implementation or experimentation.
Experiment Setup No The paper is theoretical, focusing on algorithm design and proofs. It does not describe an experimental setup with hyperparameters or training configurations.