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We study many-to-one matching problems between institutions and individuals, where each institution may be matched to multiple individuals. The matching market includes couples, who view pairs of institutions as complementary. Institutions'…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-07-11 Shashwat Khare , Souvik Roy

In this work, we propose a theory for information matching. It is motivated by the observation that retrieval is about the relevance matching between two sets of properties (features), namely, the information need representation and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-06-04 Jagadeesh Gorla , Stephen Robertson , Jun Wang , Tamas Jambor

We focus on the one-to-one two-sided matching model with two disjoint sets of agents of equal size, where each agent in a set has preferences on the agents in the other set modeled by a linear order. A matching mechanism associates a set of…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-11-27 Daniela Bubboloni , Michele Gori , Claudia Meo

We introduce a new model for two-sided matching which allows us to borrow popular fairness notions from the fair division literature such as envy-freeness up to one good and maximin share guarantee. In our model, each agent is matched to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Rupert Freeman , Evi Micha , Nisarg Shah

In this paper, we consider a matroid generalization of the stable matching problem. In particular, we consider the setting where preferences may contain ties. For this generalization, we propose a polynomial-time algorithm for the problem…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Naoyuki Kamiyama

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 the multidimensional stable roommate problem, agents have to be allocated to rooms and have preferences over sets of potential roommates. We study the complexity of finding good allocations of agents to rooms under the assumption that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Niclas Boehmer , Edith Elkind

In the stable marriage problem, a set of men and a set of women are given, each of whom has a strictly ordered preference list over the acceptable agents in the opposite class. A matching is called stable if it is not blocked by any pair of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Ágnes Cseh , Klaus Heeger

Results from the communication complexity literature have demonstrated that stable matching requires communication: one cannot find or verify a stable match without having access to essentially all of the ordinal preference information held…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-12-09 Naveen Durvasula

We study the implementability of stable matchings in a two-sided market model with one-sided incomplete information. Firms' types are publicly known, whereas workers' types are private information. A mechanism generates a matching and…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-12-23 Dinko Dimitrov , Dipjyoti Majumdar

Bipartite matching, where agents on one side of a market are matched to agents or items on the other, is a classical problem in computer science and economics, with widespread application in healthcare, education, advertising, and general…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Faez Ahmed , John P. Dickerson , Mark Fuge

Matching algorithms have demonstrated great success in several practical applications, but they often require centralized coordination and plentiful information. In many modern online marketplaces, agents must independently seek out and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Vade Shah , Bryce L. Ferguson , Jason R. Marden

We consider the following problem: There is a set of items (e.g., movies) and a group of agents (e.g., passengers on a plane); each agent has some intrinsic utility for each of the items. Our goal is to pick a set of $K$ items that maximize…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-11 Piotr Skowron , Piotr Faliszewski , Jerome Lang

Recently there has been a growing interest in fairness-aware recommender systems, including fairness in providing consistent performance across different users or groups of users. A recommender system could be considered unfair if the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Himan Abdollahpouri , Masoud Mansoury , Robin Burke , Bamshad Mobasher

We consider the problem of computing popular matchings in a bipartite graph G = (R U H, E) where R and H denote a set of residents and a set of hospitals respectively. Each hospital h has a positive capacity denoting the number of residents…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Meghana Nasre , Amit Rawat

I relate bipartite graph matchings to stable matchings. I prove a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a saturating stable matching, where every agent on one side is matched, for all possible preferences. I extend my…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Muhammad Maaz

In many-to-many matching models, substitutable preferences constitute the largest domain for which a pairwise stable matching is guaranteed to exist. In this note, we extend the recently proposed algorithm of Hatfield et al. [3] to test…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-01-04 Haris Aziz , Markus Brill , Paul Harrenstein

The many-to-one stable matching problem provides the fundamental abstraction of several real-world matching markets such as school choice and hospital-resident allocation. The agents on both sides are often referred to as residents and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Federico Bobbio , Margarida Carvalho , Andrea Lodi , Alfredo Torrico

Recommender systems are personalized information systems. However, in many settings, the end-user of the recommendations is not the only party whose needs must be represented in recommendation generation. Incorporating this insight gives…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-07-31 Robin Burke , Himan Abdollahpouri

We study ordinal approximation algorithms for maximum-weight bipartite matchings. Such algorithms only know the ordinal preferences of the agents/nodes in the graph for their preferred matches, but must compete with fully omniscient…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Elliot Anshelevich , Wennan Zhu