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We give a simple approximation algorithm for a common generalization of many previously studied extensions of the maximum size stable matching problem with ties. These generalizations include the existence of critical vertices in the graph,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Gergely Csáji

We study the Dominating set problem and Independent Set Problem for dynamic graphs in the vertex-arrival model. We say that a dynamic algorithm for one of these problems is $k$-stable when it makes at most $k$ changes to its output…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Mark de Berg , Arpan Sadhukhan , Frits Spieksma

We study the problem of repeated two-sided matching with uncertain preferences (two-sided bandits), and no explicit communication between agents. Recent work has developed algorithms that converge to stable matchings when one side (the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Gaurab Pokharel , Sanmay Das

In IWOCA 2019, Ruangwises and Itoh introduced stable noncrossing matchings, where participants of each side are aligned on each of two parallel lines, and no two matching edges are allowed to cross each other. They defined two stability…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Koki Hamada , Shuichi Miyazaki , Kazuya Okamoto

In this work, we analyze the influence of a single strategic agent on the quality of the other agents' matchings in a matching market. We consider a stable matching problem with $n$ men and $n$ women when preferences are drawn uniformly…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Ron Kupfer

Motivated by the increasing interest in the explicit representation and handling of various "preference" structures arising in modern digital economy, this work introduces a new class of "one-to-many stable-matching" problems where a set of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Spyros Reveliotis , Eva Robillard

In this paper, we study the weighted stochastic matching problem. Let $G=(V, E)$ be a given edge-weighted graph and let its realization $\mathcal{G}$ be a random subgraph of $G$ that includes each edge $e\in E$ independently with a known…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Mahsa Derakhshan , Mohammad Saneian

We study the existence of stable matchings when agents have choice correspondences instead of preference relations. We extend the framework of \cite{chambers2017choice} by weakening the path independence assumption. For many-to-many…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-05-20 Varun Bansal , Mihir Bhattacharya , Ojasvi Khare

We study the problem of finding "fair" stable matchings in the Stable Marriage problem with Incomplete lists (SMI). In particular, we seek stable matchings that are optimal with respect to profile, which is a vector that indicates the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Frances Cooper , David Manlove

We consider one variant of stable assignment problems in a bipartite graph endowed with nonnegative capacities on the edges and quotas on the vertices. It can be viewed as a generalization of the stable allocation problem introduced by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-22 Alexander V. Karzanov

We study the two-sided stable matching problem with one-sided uncertainty for two sets of agents A and B, with equal cardinality. Initially, the preference lists of the agents in A are given but the preferences of the agents in B are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Evripidis Bampis , Konstantinos Dogeas , Thomas Erlebach , Nicole Megow , Jens Schlöter , Amitabh Trehan

An edge-weighted, vertex-capacitated graph G is called stable if the value of a maximum-weight capacity-matching equals the value of a maximum-weight fractional capacity-matching. Stable graphs play a key role in characterizing the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Matthew Gerstbrein , Laura Sanità , Lucy Verberk

Stable matching theory is the foundation of centralized clearinghouses worldwide, from school choice programs to medical residency allocations. However, incorporating complex distributional goals-such as multi-dimensional diversity quotas…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Gergely Csáji , Zhaohong Sun

We present deterministic distributed algorithms for computing approximate maximum cardinality matchings and approximate maximum weight matchings. Our algorithm for the unweighted case computes a matching whose size is at least $(1-\eps)$…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-11-12 Guy Even , Moti Medina , Dana Ron

We study a practical centralized matching problem which assigns children to daycare centers. The collective preferences of siblings from the same family introduce complementarities, which can lead to the absence of stable matchings, as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Zhaohong Sun , Tomohiko Yokoyama , Makoto Yokoo

The matching hypothesis in social psychology claims that people are more likely to form a committed relationship with someone equally attractive. Previous works on stochastic models of human mate choice process indicate that patterns…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-12-02 Tao Jia , Robert F. Spivey , Boleslaw Szymanski , Gyorgy Korniss

We study (coalitional) exchange stability, which Alcalde [Economic Design, 1995] introduced as an alternative solution concept for matching markets involving property rights, such as assigning persons to two-bed rooms. Here, a matching of a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Jiehua Chen , Adrian Chmurovic , Fabian Jogl , Manuel Sorge

Stable matching is a classical combinatorial problem that has been the subject of intense theoretical and empirical study since its introduction in 1962 in a seminal paper by Gale and Shapley. In this paper, we provide a new upper bound on…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Anna R. Karlin , Shayan Oveis Gharan , Robbie Weber

The standard two-sided and one-sided matching problems, and the closely related school choice problem, have been widely studied from an axiomatic viewpoint. A small number of algorithms dominate the literature. For two-sided matching, the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Jacky Lo , Mark C. Wilson

We study the design of one-to-one matching mechanisms that are strategy-proof for both sides and as stable as possible. Motivated by the impossibility result of Roth (1982), we formulate the mechanism design problem as a linear program that…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-02-04 Tohya Sugano