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We study stable matchings that are robust to preference changes in the two-sided stable matching setting of Gale and Shapley[GS62]. Given two instances $A$ and $B$ on the same set of agents, a matching is said to be robust if it is stable…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Rohith Reddy Gangam , Tung Mai , Nitya Raju , Vijay V. Vazirani

We present a polynomial-time $\frac{3}{2}$-approximation algorithm for the problem of finding a maximum-cardinality stable matching in a many-to-many matching model with ties and laminar constraints on both sides. We formulate our problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Yu Yokoi

In the Stable Roommates Problem (SR), a set of $2n$ agents rank one another in a linear order. The goal is to find a matching that is stable: one that has no pair of agents who mutually prefer each other over their assigned partners. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Christine T. Cheng , Will Rosenbaum

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 adopt the notion of the farsighted stable set to determine which matchings are stable when agents are farsighted in matching markets with couples. We show that a singleton matching is a farsighted stable set if and only if the matching…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2023-04-26 Ata Atay , Sylvain Funck , Ana Mauleon , Vincent Vannetelbosch

We consider popular matching problems in both bipartite and non-bipartite graphs with strict preference lists. It is known that every stable matching is a min-size popular matching. A subclass of max-size popular matchings called dominant…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Yuri Faenza , Telikepalli Kavitha , Vladlena Powers , Xingyu Zhang

In a stable matching setting, we consider a query model that allows for an interactive learning algorithm to make precisely one type of query: proposing a matching, the response to which is either that the proposed matching is stable, or a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Ehsan Emamjomeh-Zadeh , Yannai A. Gonczarowski , David Kempe

We consider the three-dimensional stable matching problem with cyclic preferences, a problem originally proposed by Knuth. Despite extensive study of the problem by experts from different areas, the question of whether every instance of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Kanstantsin Pashkovich , Laurent Poirrier

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

We study deviations by a group of agents in the three main types of matching markets: the house allocation, the marriage, and the roommates models. For a given instance, we call a matching $k$-stable if no other matching exists that is more…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Haris Aziz , Gergely Csáji , Ágnes Cseh

Following up on purely theoretical work of Bredereck et al. [AAAI 2020], we contribute further theoretical insights into adapting stable two-sided matchings to change. Moreover, we perform extensive empirical studies hinting at numerous…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Niclas Boehmer , Klaus Heeger , Rolf Niedermeier

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

We introduce a generalized version of the famous Stable Marriage problem, now based on multi-modal preference lists. The central twist herein is to allow each agent to rank its potentially matching counterparts based on more than one…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Jiehua Chen , Rolf Niedermeier , Piotr Skowron

We propose two solution concepts for matchings under preferences: robustness and near stability. The former strengthens while the latter relaxes the classic definition of stability by Gale and Shapley (1962). Informally speaking, robustness…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Jiehua Chen , Piotr Skowron , Manuel Sorge

A group of $n$ agents with numerical preferences for each other are to be assigned to the $n$ seats of a dining table. We study two natural topologies:~circular (cycle) tables and panel (path) tables. For a given seating arrangement, an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Damien Berriaud , Andrei Constantinescu , Roger Wattenhofer

We present an experimental study of decentralized two-sided matching markets with no transfers. Experimental participants are informed of everyone's preferences and can make arbitrary non-binding match offers that get finalized when a…

General Economics · Economics 2024-01-22 Federico Echenique , Alejandro Robinson-Cortés , Leeat Yariv

The study of stable matchings usually relies on the assumption that agents' preferences over the opposite side are complete and known. In many real markets, however, preferences might be uncertain and revealed only through costly…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Moshe Babaioff , Rotem Gil , Assaf Romm

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

Super-stability is one of the stability concepts in the stable matching problem with ties. It is known that there may not exist a super-stable matching, and the existence of a super-stable matching can be checked in polynomial time. In this…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Naoyuki Kamiyama

We introduce a new algorithm for finding stable matchings in multi-sided matching markets. Our setting is motivated by a PhD market of students, advisors, and co-advisors, and can be generalized to supply chain networks viewed as $n$-sided…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Maximilian Mordig , Riccardo Della Vecchia , Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi , Bernhard Schölkopf