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We initiate the study of external manipulations in Stable Marriage by considering several manipulative actions as well as several manipulation goals. For instance, one goal is to make sure that a given pair of agents is matched in a stable…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Niclas Boehmer , Robert Bredereck , Klaus Heeger , Rolf Niedermeier

We study stable matching problems with locality of information and control. In our model, each agent is a node in a fixed network and strives to be matched to another agent. An agent has a complete preference list over all other agents it…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Martin Hoefer , Lisa Wagner

Robust Stable Marriage (RSM) is a variant of the classical Stable Marriage problem, where the robustness of a given stable matching is measured by the number of modifications required for repairing it in case an unforeseen event occurs. We…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Begum Genc , Mohamed Siala , Gilles Simonin , Barry O'Sullivan

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

In the noisy query model, the (binary) return value of every query (possibly repeated) is independently flipped with some fixed probability $p \in (0, 1/2)$. In this paper, we obtain tight bounds on the noisy query complexity of several…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Yuzhou Gu , Xin Li , Yinzhan Xu

Assume that $n = 2k$ potential roommates each have an ordered preference of the $n-1$ others. A stable matching is a perfect matching of the $n$ roommates in which no two unmatched people prefer each other to their matched partners. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Byron Chin , Marcus Michelen

This paper has two objectives. One is to give a linear time algorithm that solves the stable roommates problem (i.e., obtains one stable matching) using the stable marriage problem. The idea is that a stable matching of a roommate instance…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Kazuo Iwama , Shuichi Miyazaki

In the Stable Marriage Problem two sets of agents must be paired according to mutual preferences, which may happen to conflict. We present two generalizations of its sex-oriented version, aiming to take into account correlations between the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Caldarelli , Andrea Capocci , Paolo Laureti

We study a variation of the Stable Marriage problem, where every man and every woman express their preferences as preference lists which may be incomplete and contain ties. This problem is called the Stable Marriage problem with Ties and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Selin Eyupoglu , Muge Fidan , Yavuz Gulesen , Ilayda Begum Izci , Berkan Teber , Baturay Yilmaz , Ahmet Alkan , Esra Erdem

The stable marriage and stable roommates problems have been extensively studied due to their high applicability in various real-world scenarios. However, it might happen that no stable solution exists, or stable solutions do not meet…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Kristóf Bérczi , Gergely Csáji , Tamás Király

In the stochastic population protocol model, we are given a connected graph with $n$ nodes, and in every time step, a scheduler samples an edge of the graph uniformly at random and the nodes connected by this edge interact. A fundamental…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Dan Alistarh , Joel Rybicki , Sasha Voitovych

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…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Rohith Reddy Gangam , Tung Mai , Nitya Raju , Vijay V. Vazirani

We study variants of the stable marriage and college admissions models in which the agents are allowed to express weak preferences over the set of agents on the other side of the market and the option of remaining unmatched. For the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-31 Nevzat Onur Domaniç , Chi-Kit Lam , C. Gregory Plaxton

In a stable matching problem there are two groups of agents, with agents on one side having their individual preferences for agents on another side as a potential match. It is assumed silently that agents can freely and costlessly ``switch"…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Boris Pittel , Kirill Rudov

The Gap-Hamming-Distance problem arose in the context of proving space lower bounds for a number of key problems in the data stream model. In this problem, Alice and Bob have to decide whether the Hamming distance between their $n$-bit…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-02-17 Joshua Brody , Amit Chakrabarti

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

We consider Stable Marriage with Covering Constraints (SMC): in this variant of Stable Marriage, we distinguish a subset of women as well as a subset of men, and we seek a matching with fewest number of blocking pairs that matches all of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Matthias Mnich , Ildikó Schlotter

We consider the two-sided stable matching setting in which there may be uncertainty about the agents' preferences due to limited information or communication. We consider three models of uncertainty: (1) lottery model --- in which for each…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Haris Aziz , Péter Biró , Serge Gaspers , Ronald de Haan , Nicholas Mattei , Baharak Rastegari

In this paper, we begin by discussing different types of preference profiles related to the stable marriage problem. We then introduce the concept of soulmates, which are a man and a woman who rank each other first. Inversely, we examine…

We study a generalization of the classical stable matching problem that allows for cardinal preferences (as opposed to ordinal) and fractional matchings (as opposed to integral). After observing that, in this cardinal setting, stable…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Ioannis Caragiannis , Aris Filos-Ratsikas , Panagiotis Kanellopoulos , Rohit Vaish