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Let $G$ be a graph and suppose we are given, for each $v \in V(G)$, a strict ordering of the neighbors of $v$. A set of matchings ${\cal M}$ of $G$ is called internally stable if there are no matchings $M,M' \in {\cal M}$ such that an edge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-09 Yuri Faenza , Clifford Stein , Jia Wan

Stability is crucial in matching markets, yet in many real-world settings - from hospital residency allocations to roommate assignments - full stability is either impossible to achieve or can come at the cost of leaving many agents…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Frederik Glitzner , David Manlove

We consider priority-based matching problems with limited farsightedness. We show that, once agents are sufficiently farsighted, the matching obtained from the Top Trading Cycles (TTC) algorithm becomes stable: a singleton set consisting of…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-12-16 Ata Atay , Ana Mauleon , Vincent Vannetelbosch

In many-to-many matching models, substitutable preferences constitute the largest domain for which a pairwise stable matching is guaranteed to exist. In this note, we extend the recently proposed algorithm of Hatfield et al. [3] to test…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-01-04 Haris Aziz , Markus Brill , Paul Harrenstein

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 variants of the Optimal Refugee Resettlement problem where a set $F$ of refugee families need to be allocated to a set $L$ of possible places of resettlement in a feasible and optimal way. Feasibility issues emerge from the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Jiehua Chen , Ildikó Schlotter , Sofia Simola

We formalize an allocation model under ordinal preferences that is more general than the well-studied Shapley-Scarf housing market. In our model, the agents do not just care which house or resource they get but also care about who gets…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Haris Aziz , Edward Lee

While the existence of a stable matching for the stable roommates problem possibly with incomplete preference lists (SRI) can be decided in polynomial time, SRI problems with some fairness criteria are intractable. Egalitarian SRI that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Baturay Yılmaz , Esra Erdem

This paper studies matching markets where institutions are matched with possibly more than one individual. The matching market contains some couples who view the pair of jobs as complements. First, we show by means of an example that a…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-07-11 Shashwat Khare , Souvik Roy , Ton Storcken

We consider the stable matching problem when the preference lists are not given explicitly but are represented in a succinct way and ask whether the problem becomes computationally easier and investigate other implications. We give…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-21 Marvin Künnemann , Daniel Moeller , Ramamohan Paturi , Stefan Schneider

The stable matching problem is a prototype model in economics and social sciences where agents act selfishly to optimize their own satisfaction, subject to mutually conflicting constraints. A stable matching is a pairing of adjacent…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephan Mertens

The Balanced Stable Marriage problem is a central optimization version of the classic Stable Marriage problem. Here, the output cannot be an arbitrary stable matching, but one that balances between the dissatisfaction of the two parties,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Sushmita Gupta , Sanjukta Roy , Saket Saurabh , Meirav Zehavi

We study control problems in the context of matching under preferences: We examine how a central authority, called the controller, can manipulate an instance of the Stable Marriage or Stable Roommates problems in order to achieve certain…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Jiehua Chen , Ildikó Schlotter

An instance $I$ of the Stable Matching Problem (SMP) is given by a bipartite graph with a preference list of neighbors for every vertex. A swap in $I$ is the exchange of two consecutive vertices in a preference list. A swap can be viewed as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Eduard Eiben , Gregory Gutin , Philip R. Neary , Clément Rambaud , Magnus Wahlström , Anders Yeo

We initiate the study of distortion in stable matching. Concretely, we aim to design algorithms that have limited access to the agents' cardinal preferences and compute stable matchings of high quality with respect to some aggregate…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Aris Filos-Ratsikas , Georgios Kalantzis

We propose two solution concepts for matchings under preferences: robustness and near stability. The former strengthens while the latter relaxes the classic definition of stability by Gale and Shapley (1962). Informally speaking, robustness…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Jiehua Chen , Piotr Skowron , Manuel Sorge

We study popularity for matchings under preferences. This solution concept captures matchings that do not lose against any other matching in a majority vote by the agents. A popular matching is said to be robust if it is popular among…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Martin Bullinger , Gergely Csáji , Rohith Reddy Gangam , Parnian Shahkar

We consider stable and popular matching problems in arbitrary graphs, which are referred to as stable roommates instances. We extend the 3/2-approximation algorithm for the maximum size weakly stable matching problem to the roommates case,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Gergely Csáji

The stable marriage problem has been introduced in order to describe a complex system where individuals attempt to optimise their own satisfaction, subject to mutually conflicting constraints. Due to the potential large applicability of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Caldarelli , A. Capocci

Many countries around the world, including Korea, use the school choice lottery system. However, this method has a problem in that many students are assigned to less-preferred schools based on the lottery results. In addition, the task of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Seongbeom Park