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New method ensures fair budget choices with additive preferences

Core Up-To-One for Participatory Budgeting with Additive Utilities

Abstract: We study participatory budgeting with additive utilities. We introduce a selection rule based on utility-weighted harmonic entropy and a cost penalty, and prove that it returns budget-feasible outcomes satisfying core-up-to-one.

Mon 14 SeptComputer Science and Game Theory
The gist
Participatory budgeting lets communities decide how to spend shared funds based on what people value. This paper presents a new way to pick projects that balances everyone's happiness fairly while staying within the budget. The authors show mathematically that their method satisfies a fairness notion called core-up-to-one, meaning no group of people would prefer reallocating the budget by changing just one item. This approach helps guarantee fair outcomes when people express how much they value different options.
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