Subquadratic Subsidies for Nonnegative or Nonpositive Valuations

We study envy-freeness with subsidies for indivisible items beyond additive valuations. Assuming that every single-item marginal value lies in $[-1,1]$, we prove that a total subsidy of $O(n^{3/2}\sqrt{\log n})$ suffices to achieve envy-freeness among $n$ agents whenever all agents assign nonnegativ