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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

In the stable marriage problem N men and N women have to be matched by pairs under the constraint that the resulting matching is stable. We study the statistical properties of stable matchings in the large N limit using both numerical and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Michael Dzierzawa , Marie-Jose Omero

A super-stable matching, which was introduced by Irving, is a solution concept in a variant of the stable matching problem in which the preferences may contain ties. Irving proposed a polynomial-time algorithm for the problem of finding a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Naoyuki Kamiyama

The classic Stable Roommates problem (which is the non-bipartite generalization of the well-known Stable Marriage problem) asks whether there is a stable matching for a given set of agents, i.e. a partitioning of the agents into disjoint…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Jiehua Chen , Danny Hermelin , Manuel Sorge , Harel Yedidsion

The stable matching problem has been the subject of intense theoretical and empirical study since the seminal 1962 paper by Gale and Shapley. The number of stable matchings for different systems of preferences has been studied in many…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-01-01 Christopher Hoffman , Avi Levy , Elchanan Mossel

The Hospitals / Residents problem with Couples (HRC) is a generalisation of the classical Hospitals / Resident problem (HR) that is important in practical applications because it models the case where couples submit joint preference lists…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-05-29 P. Biro , D. F. Manlove , I. McBride

The literature on centralized matching markets often assumes that a true preference of each player is known to herself and fixed, but empirical evidence casts doubt on its plausibility. To circumvent the problem, we consider evolutionary…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-05-18 Hidemasa Ishii , Nariaki Nishino

Following up a recent work by Ashlagi, Kanoria and Leshno, we study a stable matching problem with unequal numbers of men and women, and independent uniform preferences. The asymptotic formulas for the expected number of stable matchings,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-14 Boris Pittel

Adaptivity to changing environments and constraints is key to success in modern society. We address this by proposing "incrementalized versions" of Stable Marriage and Stable Roommates. That is, we try to answer the following question: for…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Robert Bredereck , Jiehua Chen , Dušan Knop , Junjie Luo , Rolf Niedermeier

In this paper we consider stable matchings subject to assignment constraints. These are matchings that require certain assigned pairs to be included, insist that some other assigned pairs are not, and, importantly, are stable. Our main…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-06-14 Gregory Gutin , Philip R. Neary , Anders Yeo

We provide a problem definition of the stable marriage problem for a general number of parties $p$ under a natural preference scheme in which each person has simple lists for the other parties. We extend the notion of stability in a natural…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-11 Jared D. Lichtman

We study stable matching problems where agents have multilayer preferences: There are $\ell$ layers each consisting of one preference relation for each agent. Recently, Chen et al. [EC '18] studied such problems with strict preferences,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Matthias Bentert , Niclas Boehmer , Klaus Heeger , Tomohiro Koana

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

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

Motivated by group-project distribution, we introduce and study stable matching under the constraint of applicants needing to share a location to be matched with the same institute, which we call the Location-Restricted Stable Matching…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Garret Castro

Stable matching is a fundamental problem studied both in economics and computer science. The task is to find a matching between two sides of agents that have preferences over who they want to be matched with. A matching is stable if no pair…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Juho Hirvonen , Sara Ranjbaran

The efficient computation of large matchings with desirable guarantees is a crucial objective in market design. However, even in simple two-sided matching markets with weak ordinal preferences, finding a maximum-size stable matching is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Gergely Csáji , Frederik Glitzner

We study parameterized approximability of three optimization problems related to stable matching: (1) Min-BP-SMI: Given a stable marriage instance and a number k, find a size-at-least-k matching that minimizes the number $\beta$ of blocking…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Jiehua Chen , Sanjukta Roy , Sofia Simola

We introduce the {\sc classified stable matching} problem, a problem motivated by academic hiring. Suppose that a number of institutes are hiring faculty members from a pool of applicants. Both institutes and applicants have preferences…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-10-25 Chien-Chung Huang

The stable marriage problem requires one to find a marriage with no blocking pair. Given a matching that is not stable, Roth and Vande Vate have shown that there exists a sequence of matchings that leads to a stable matching in which each…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Vijay Kumar Garg , Changyong Hu