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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

The popular matching problem is of matching a set of applicants to a set of posts, where each applicant has a preference list, ranking a non-empty subset of posts in the order of preference, possibly with ties. A matching M is popular if…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Changyong Hu , Vijay K. Garg

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 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

We study the problem of finding "fair" stable matchings in the Stable Marriage problem with Incomplete lists (SMI). In particular, we seek stable matchings that are optimal with respect to profile, which is a vector that indicates the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Frances Cooper , David Manlove

A probabilistic approach to the stable matching problem has been identified as an important research area with several important open problems. When considering random matchings, ex-post stability is a fundamental stability concept. A…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Haris Aziz , Gergely Csáji , Péter Biró

In the Gale-Shapley model of two-sided matching, it is well known that for generic preferences, the outcomes for each side can vary dramatically in the male-optimal vs. female-optimal stable matchings. In this paper, we show that under a…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-03-26 Bill Wang

Super-stability and strong stability are properties of a matching in the stable matching problem with ties. In this paper, we introduce a common generalization of super-stability and strong stability, which we call non-uniform stability.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Naoyuki Kamiyama

We investigate the following many-to-one stable matching problem with diversity constraints (SMTI-Diverse): Given a set of students and a set of colleges which have preferences over each other, where the students have overlapping types, and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Jiehua Chen , Robert Ganian , Thekla Hamm

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

The theory of optimal choice sets offers a well-established solution framework in social choice and game theory. In social choice theory, decision-making is typically modeled as a maximization problem. However, when preferences are cyclic…

General Economics · Economics 2025-08-14 Athanasios Andrikopoulos , Nikolaos Sampanis

An input to the Popular Matching problem, in the roommates setting, consists of a graph $G$ and each vertex ranks its neighbors in strict order, known as its preference. In the Popular Matching problem the objective is to test whether there…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Sushmita Gupta , Pranabendu Misra , Saket Saurabh , Meirav Zehavi

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

In a dynamic matching market, such as a marriage or job market, how should agents balance accepting a proposed match with the cost of continuing their search? We consider this problem in a discrete setting, in which agents have cardinal…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Ishan Agarwal , Richard Cole , Yixin Tao

In bipartite matching problems, agents on two sides of a graph want to be paired according to their preferences. The stability of a matching depends on these preferences, which in uncertain environments also reflect agents' beliefs about…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Jonathan Shaki , Jiarui Gan , Sarit Kraus

We consider a school choice matching model where the priorities for schools are represented by binary relations that may not be weak order. We focus on the (total order) extensions of the binary relations. We introduce a class of algorithms…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2023-10-13 Minoru Kitahara , Yasunori Okumura

It is well known that a stable matching in a many-to-one matching market with couples need not exist. We introduce a new matching algorithm for such markets and show that for a general class of large random markets the algorithm will find a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Itai Ashlagi , Mark Braverman , Avinatan Hassidim

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

In several two-sided markets, including labor and dating, agents typically have limited information about their preferences prior to mutual interactions. This issue can result in matching frictions, as arising in the labor market for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Itai Ashlagi , Jiale Chen , Mohammad Roghani , Amin Saberi

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