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Equity Promotion in Online Resource Allocation

arxiv.org/abs/2112.04169

Updated 51 min ago · first seen 11 Sept 2026

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Published
11 Sept 2026
T1 · 51 min ago
arXiv
2112.04169
T1 · 51 min ago
Category
cs.GT
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Abstract

-cross Abstract: We consider online resource allocation under a typical non-profit setting, where limited or even scarce resources are administered by a not-for-profit organization like a government. We focus on the internal-equity by assuming that arriving requesters are homogeneous in terms of their external factors like demands but heterogeneous for their internal attributes like demographics. Specifically, we associate each arriving requester with one or several groups based on their demographics (i.e., race, gender, and age), and we aim to design an equitable distributing strategy such that every group of requesters can receive a fair share of resources proportional to a preset target ratio. We present two LP-based sampling algorithms and investigate them both theoretically (in terms of competitive-ratio analysis) and experimentally based on real COVID-19 vaccination data maintained by the Minnesota Department of Health. Both theoretical and numerical results show that our LP-based sampling strategies can effectively promote equity, especially when the arrival population is disproportionately represented, as observed in the early stage of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.

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Pan Xu, Yifan Xu

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2112.04169

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cs.GT, cs.AI, cs.DS

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cs.GT

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Published
11 Sept 2026

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