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A local-search framework cuts fair diversity maximization from a group-count-dependent ratio to a group-count-independent constant, with an optimal factor for two groups

The paper studies fair diversity maximization with exact group quotas and proposes a unified local-repair framework: starting from a solution that already meets all quotas and is color-separated, it repeatedly replaces conflicting points with a repair set, preserving quotas and within-group separation while strictly decreasing the number of bad points; this yields a polynomial-time 4-approximation for any constant number of groups and a polynomial-time 2-approximation for two groups, the latter matching the optimal factor that is NP-hard to improve even in the unconstrained case.