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#1 Maximizing Nash Social Welfare in 2-Value Instances [PDF] [Copy] [Kimi]

Authors: Hannaneh Akrami ; Bhaskar Ray Chaudhury ; Martin Hoefer ; Kurt Mehlhorn ; Marco Schmalhofer ; Golnoosh Shahkarami ; Giovanna Varricchio ; Quentin Vermande ; Ernest van Wijland

We consider the problem of maximizing the Nash social welfare when allocating a set G of indivisible goods to a set N of agents. We study instances, in which all agents have 2-value additive valuations: The value of every agent for every good is either p or q, where p and q are integers and p2. 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.