Proportionally Fair Online Allocation of Public Goods with Predictions

Authors: Siddhartha Banerjee, Vasilis Gkatzelis, Safwan Hossain, Billy Jin, Evi Micha, Nisarg Shah

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Theoretical We design online algorithms for the fair allocation of public goods to a set of N agents over a sequence of T rounds and focus on improving their performance using predictions. The algorithm's performance is measured using a proportional fairness objective, which informally demands that every group of agents be rewarded proportional to its size and the cohesiveness of its preferences. We show that no algorithm can achieve better than Θ(T/B) proportional fairness without predictions. With reasonably accurate predictions, the situation improves significantly, and Θ(log(T/B)) proportional fairness is achieved.
Researcher Affiliation Academia Siddhartha Banerjee1 , Vasilis Gkatzelis2 , Safwan Hossain3 , Billy Jin1 , Evi Micha4 and Nisarg Shah4 1Cornell University 2Drexel University 3Harvard University 4University of Toronto sbanerjee@cornell.edu, gkatz@drexel.edu, shossain@fas.harvard.edu, bzj3@cornell.edu, emicha@cs.toronto.edu, nisarg@cs.toronto.edu
Pseudocode Yes Algorithm 1 Set-Aside Greedy Algorithm for Batched Public Goods
Open Source Code No The paper does not provide any concrete statement or link regarding the public availability of source code for the described methodology.
Open Datasets No This paper is theoretical and does not conduct experiments on datasets, thus no information on dataset availability is provided.
Dataset Splits No This paper is theoretical and does not conduct experiments on datasets, thus no information on training/validation/test splits is provided.
Hardware Specification No This paper is theoretical and does not mention any hardware specifications used for running experiments.
Software Dependencies No This paper is theoretical and does not mention specific software dependencies with version numbers.
Experiment Setup No This paper is theoretical and does not include details about an experimental setup, such as hyperparameters or training configurations.