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There are growing concerns that algorithms, which increasingly make or influence important decisions pertaining to individuals, might produce outcomes that discriminate against protected groups. We study such fairness concerns in the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Gili Karni , Guy N. Rothblum , Gal Yona

The prevalence and importance of algorithmic two-sided marketplaces has drawn attention to the issue of fairness in such settings. Algorithmic decisions are used in assigning students to schools, users to advertisers, and applicants to job…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Siddartha Devic , David Kempe , Vatsal Sharan , Aleksandra Korolova

Although the integration of two-sided matching markets using stable mechanisms generates expected gains from integration, I show that there are worst-case scenarios in which these are negative. The losses from integration can be large…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2018-11-27 Josué Ortega

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

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

A classic trade-off that school districts face when deciding which matching algorithm to use is that it is not possible to always respect both priorities and preferences. The student-proposing deferred acceptance algorithm (DA) respects…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-09-20 Estelle Cantillon , Li Chen , Juan S. Pereyra

We study the problem of an organization that matches agents to objects where agents have preference rankings over objects and the organization uses algorithms to construct a ranking over objects on behalf of each agent. Our new framework…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-08-12 Terence Highsmith

We generalize several schedule matching theorems of Baiou-Balinski (Math. Oper. Res., 27 (2002), 485) and Alkan-Gale (J. Econ. Th. 112 (2003), 289) by applying a fixed point method of Fleiner (Math. Oper. Res., 28 (2003), 103). Thanks to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-05-13 Vilmos Komornik , Zsolt Komornik , Christelle K. Viauroux

This paper studies a house allocation problem in a networked housing market, where agents can invite others to join the system in order to enrich their options. Top Trading Cycle is a well-known matching mechanism that achieves a set of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Youjia Zhang , Pingzhong Tang

We study a many-to-one matching model inspired by school choice, where schools evaluate applicants using multiple rankings rather than a single priority order. We model each school's evaluation with social choice criteria to reflect the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Haoyu Song , Thanh Nguyen , Young-san Lin

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

The standard two-sided and one-sided matching problems, and the closely related school choice problem, have been widely studied from an axiomatic viewpoint. A small number of algorithms dominate the literature. For two-sided matching, the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Jacky Lo , Mark C. Wilson

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

Coordination failure reduces match quality among employers and candidates in the job market, resulting in a large number of unfilled positions and/or unstable, short-term employment. Centralized job search engines provide a platform that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Amar Saini

In this paper, we study a matching market model on a bipartite network where agents on each side arrive and depart stochastically by a Poisson process. For such a dynamic model, we design a mechanism that decides not only which agents to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Naonori Kakimura , Donghao Zhu

Problem definition: In many matching markets, some agents are fully flexible, while others only accept a subset of jobs. For example, ridesharing drivers can specify on the platform the destinations they are willing to accept. Conventional…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Chiwei Yan , Francisco Castro , Peter Frazier , Hongyao Ma , Hamid Nazerzadeh

Recent literature highlights the advantages of implementing social rules via dynamic game forms. We characterize when truth-telling remains a dominant strategy in gradual mechanisms implementing strategy-proof social rules, where agents…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-03-27 Wenqian Wang , Zhiwen Zheng

Merging operators aim at defining the beliefs/goals of a group of agents from the beliefs/goals of each member of the group. Whenever an agent of the group has preferences over the possible results of the merging process (i.e., the possible…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-13 P. Everaere , S. Konieczny , P. Marquis

Many centralized mechanisms for two-sided matching markets that enjoy strong theoretical properties assume that the planner solicits full information on the preferences of each participating agent. In particular, they expect that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Yuri Faenza , Aapeli Vuorinen

Matching games is a one-to-one two sided market model introduced by Garrido-Lucero and Laraki, in which coupled agents' utilities are endogenously determined as the outcome of a strategic game. They refine the classical pairwise stability…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Felipe Garrido-Lucero , Rida Laraki