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We consider an intermediary's problem of dynamically matching demand and supply of heterogeneous types in a periodic-review fashion. More specifically, there are two disjoint sets of demand and supply types, and a reward associated with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-20 Ming Hu , Yun Zhou

In many two-sided markets, the parties to be matched have incomplete information about their characteristics. We consider the settings where the parties engaged are extremely patient and are interested in long-term partnerships. Hence, once…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Kartik Ahuja , Mihaela van der Schaar

A breakthrough of Ashlagi, Kanoria, and Leshno [AKL17] found that imbalance in the number of agents on either side of a random matching market has a profound effect on the market's expected characteristics. Specifically, across all stable…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Linda Cai , Clayton Thomas

In matching markets such as kidney exchanges and freight exchanges, delayed matching has been shown to improve overall market efficiency. The benefits of delay are highly sensitive to participants' sojourn times and departure behavior, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Ruiqi Zhou , Donghao Zhu , Houcai Shen

Two-sided matching platforms provide users with menus of match recommendations. To maximize the number of realized matches between the two sides (referred here as customers and suppliers), the platform must balance the inherent tension…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Itai Ashlagi , Anilesh K. Krishnaswamy , Rahul Makhijani , Daniela Saban , Kirankumar Shiragur

Two-sided matching markets have long existed to pair agents in the absence of regulated exchanges. A common example is school choice, where a matching mechanism uses student and school preferences to assign students to schools. In such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Stefania Ionescu , Yuhao Du , Kenneth Joseph , Anikó Hannák

We study the stable marriage problem in two-sided markets with randomly generated preferences. We consider agents on each side divided into a constant number of "soft tiers", which intuitively indicate the quality of the agent.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Itai Ashlagi , Mark Braverman , Amin Saberi , Clayton Thomas , Geng Zhao

Motivated by applications from gig economy and online marketplaces, we study a two-sided queueing system under joint pricing and matching controls. The queueing system is modeled by a bipartite graph, where the vertices represent customer…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-12 Sushil Mahavir Varma , Pornpawee Bumpensanti , Siva Theja Maguluri , He Wang

We consider a two-sided matching problem in which the agents on one side have dichotomous preferences and the other side representing institutions has strict preferences (priorities). It captures several important applications in matching…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Haris Aziz , Md. Shahidul Islam , Szilvia Pápai

We study uncoordinated matching markets with additional local constraints that capture, e.g., restricted information, visibility, or externalities in markets. Each agent is a node in a fixed matching network and strives to be matched to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-09-16 Martin Hoefer , Lisa Wagner

I introduce a stability notion, dynamic stability, for two-sided dynamic matching markets where (i) matching opportunities arrive over time, (ii) matching is one-to-one, and (iii) matching is irreversible. The definition addresses two…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2021-03-01 Laura Doval

The behavior of heterogeneous multi-agent systems is studied when the coupling matrices are possibly all different and/or singular, that is, its rank is less than the system dimension. Rank-deficient coupling allows exchange of limited…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Jin Gyu Lee , Hyungbo Shim

We examine two-sided markets where players arrive stochastically over time and are drawn from a continuum of types. The cost of matching a client and provider varies, so a social planner is faced with two contending objectives: a) to reduce…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Panayotis Mertikopoulos , Heinrich H. Nax , Bary S. R. Pradelski

Matching plays a vital role in the rational allocation of resources in many areas, ranging from market operation to people's daily lives. In economics, the term matching theory is coined for pairing two agents in a specific market to reach…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Jing Ren , Feng Xia , Xiangtai Chen , Jiaying Liu , Mingliang Hou , Ahsan Shehzad , Nargiz Sultanova , Xiangjie Kong

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

We formulate and study a general time-varying multi-agent system where players repeatedly compete under incomplete information. Our work is motivated by scenarios commonly observed in online advertising and retail marketplaces, where agents…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Ludovico Crippa , Yonatan Gur , Bar Light

Stochastic dynamic matching problems have recently gained attention in the stochastic-modeling community due to their diverse applications, such as supply-chain management and kidney exchange programs. In this paper, we study a matching…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Céline Comte , Fabien Mathieu , Sushil Mahavir Varma , Ana Bušić

In such different domains as neurosciences, spin glasses, social science, economics and finance, large ensemble of interacting individuals following (mainstream) or opposing (hipsters) to the majority are ubiquitous. In these systems,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-02-22 Jonathan Touboul

In this paper we present a continuous time dynamical model of heterogeneous agents interacting in a financial market where transactions are cleared by a market maker. The market is composed of fundamentalist, trend following and contrarian…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2008-12-10 Giuseppe Garofalo , Alessandro Sansone

We study the performance of general dynamic matching models. This model is defined by a connected graph, where nodes represent the class of items and the edges the compatibilities between items. Items of different classes arrive one by one…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Arnaud Cadas , Josu Doncel , Jean-Michel Fourneau , Ana Bušić