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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

We generalize two well-known game-theoretic models by introducing multiple partners matching games, defined by a graph $G=(N,E)$, with an integer vertex capacity function $b$ and an edge weighting $w$. The set $N$ consists of a number of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-01 Péter Biró , Walter Kern , Daniël Paulusma , Péter Wojuteczky

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

Suppose $n$ boys and $n$ girls rank each other at random. We show that any particular girl has at least $({1\over 2}-\epsilon) \ln n$ and at most $(1+\epsilon)\ln n$ different husbands in the set of all Gale/Shapley stable matchings defined…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Donald E. Knuth , Rajeev Motwani , Boris Pittel

Stable marriage of a two-sided market with unit demand is a classic problem that arises in many real-world scenarios. In addition, a unique stable marriage in this market simplifies a host of downstream desiderata. In this paper, we explore…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Kartik Gokhale , Amit Kumar Mallik , Ankit Kumar Misra , Swaprava Nath

We study stability notions for networked many-to-many matching markets with individually insignificant agents in distributional form. Outcomes are formulated as joint distributions over characteristics of agents and contract choices.…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-05-01 Michael Greinecker , Karolina Vocke

We study a natural generalization of stable matching to the maximum weight stable matching problem and we obtain a combinatorial polynomial time algorithm for it by reducing it to the problem of finding a maximum weight ideal cut in a DAG.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Tung Mai , Vijay V. Vazirani

Algorithmic stability is a central concept in statistics and learning theory that measures how sensitive an algorithm's output is to small changes in the training data. Stability plays a crucial role in understanding generalization,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Abhinav Chakraborty , Yuetian Luo , Rina Foygel Barber

In this paper we show that when individuals in a bipartite network exclusively choose partners and exchange valued goods with their partners, then there exists a set of exchanges that are pair-wise stable. Pair-wise stability implies that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2010-11-12 Ankur Mani , Asuman Ozdaglar , Alex , Pentland

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

In the Stable Marriage problem. when the preference lists are complete, all agents of the smaller side can be matched. However, this need not be true when preference lists are incomplete. In most real-life situations, where agents…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Sushmita Gupta , Pallavi Jain , Sanjukta Roy , Saket Saurabh , Meirav Zehavi

We consider the stability of matchings when individuals strategically submit preference information to a publicly known algorithm. Most pure Nash equilibria of the ensuing game yield a matching that is unstable with respect to the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-11 James P. Bailey , Craig A. Tovey

The stable marriage problem and its extensions have been extensively studied, with much of the work in the literature assuming that agents fully know their own preferences over alternatives. This assumption however is not always practical…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-21 Baharak Rastegari , Paul Goldberg , David Manlove

Coalition formation is concerned with the question of how to partition a set of agents into disjoint coalitions according to their preferences. Deviating from most of the previous work, we consider an online variant of the problem, where…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Martin Bullinger , René Romen

In many matching markets--such as athlete recruitment or academic admissions--participants on one side are evaluated by attribute vectors known to the other side, which in turn applies individual \emph{salience vectors} to assign relative…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Amit Ronen , S. S. Ravi , Sarit Kraus

Let G = ((A,B),E) be an instance of the stable marriage problem where every vertex ranks its neighbors in a strict order of preference. A matching M in G is popular if M does not lose a head-to-head election against any matching. Popular…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Yuri Faenza , Telikepalli Kavitha

Several countries successfully use centralized matching schemes for school or higher education assignment, or for entry-level labour markets. In this paper we explore the computational aspects of a possible similar scheme for assigning…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-01-26 Katarina Cechlarova , Tamas Fleiner , David F. Manlove , Iain McBride

Two-sided popular matchings in bipartite graphs are a well-known generalization of stable matchings in the marriage setting, and they are especially relevant when preference lists are incomplete. In this case, the cardinality of a stable…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Yuri Faenza , Vladlena Powers , Xingyu Zhang

This paper develops an integer programming approach to two-sided many-to-one matching by investigating stable integral matchings of a fictitious market where each worker is divisible. We show that stable matchings exist in a discrete…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2023-09-11 Chao Huang

Finding a stable matching is one of the central problems in algorithmic game theory. If participants are allowed to have ties and incomplete preferences, computing a stable matching of maximum cardinality is known to be NP-hard. In this…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Jochen Koenemann , Kanstantsin Pashkovich , Natig Tofigzade