Proportionality in Approval-Based Elections With a Variable Number of Winners

Authors: Rupert Freeman, Anson Kahng, David M. Pennock

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Theoretical First, we show an upper bound on AS that any deterministic rule can provide, and that straightforward adaptations of deterministic rules from the fixed number of winners setting do not achieve better than a 1/2 approximation to AS even for large numbers of candidates. We then prove that a natural randomized rule achieves a 29/32 approximation to AS.
Researcher Affiliation Collaboration 1Microsoft Research New York City 2Carnegie Mellon University 3Rutgers University
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