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We study a game between $N$ job applicants who incur a cost $c$ (relative to the job value) to reveal their type during interviews and an administrator who seeks to maximize the probability of hiring the best. We define a full learning…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-07-11 Longjian Li , Alexis Akira Toda

We study the classical, two-sided stable marriage problem under pairwise preferences. In the most general setting, agents are allowed to express their preferences as comparisons of any two of their edges and they also have the right to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Ágnes Cseh , Attila Juhos

Research regarding the stable marriage and roommate problem has a long and distinguished history in mathematics, computer science and economics. Stability in this context is predominantly core stability or one of its variants in which each…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-17 Haris Aziz

We study the stable marriage problem in the partial information setting where the agents, although they have an underlying true strict linear order, are allowed to specify partial orders. Specifically, we focus on the case where the agents…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Vijay Menon , Kate Larson

Stable matching is a fundamental area with many practical applications, such as centralised clearinghouses for school choice or job markets. Recent work has introduced the paradigm of near-feasibility in capacitated matching settings, where…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Frederik Glitzner

We provide a problem definition of the stable marriage problem for a general number of parties $p$ under a natural preference scheme in which each person has simple lists for the other parties. We extend the notion of stability in a natural…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-11 Jared D. Lichtman

The game of best choice (also known as the secretary problem) is a model for sequential decision making with a long history and many variations. The classical setup assumes that the sequence of candidate rankings are uniformly distributed.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-06 Brant Jones

In the stable marriage problem N men and N women have to be matched by pairs under the constraint that the resulting matching is stable. We study the statistical properties of stable matchings in the large N limit using both numerical and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Michael Dzierzawa , Marie-Jose Omero

The stable marriage and stable roommates problems have been extensively studied due to their high applicability in various real-world scenarios. However, it might happen that no stable solution exists, or stable solutions do not meet…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Kristóf Bérczi , Gergely Csáji , Tamás Király

Motivated by group-project distribution, we introduce and study stable matching under the constraint of applicants needing to share a location to be matched with the same institute, which we call the Location-Restricted Stable Matching…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Garret Castro

A major limitation of existing routing algorithms for multi-agent systems is that they are designed without considering the potential presence of adversarial agents in the decision-making loop, which could lead to severe performance…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Roee M. Francos , Daniel Garces , Orhan Eren Akgün , Stephanie Gil

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

We study the matroid secretary problems with submodular valuation functions. In these problems, the elements arrive in random order. When one element arrives, we have to make an immediate and irrevocable decision on whether to accept it or…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-02-27 Tengyu Ma , Bo Tang , Yajun Wang

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 take a unifying approach to single selection optimal stopping problems with random arrival order and independent sampling of items. In the problem we consider, a decision maker (DM) initially gets to sample each of $N$ items…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-11 José Correa , Andrés Cristi , Boris Epstein , José Soto

The classical stable marriage problem asks for a matching between a set of men and a set of women with no blocking pairs, which are pairs formed by a man and a woman who would both prefer switching from their current status to be paired up…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Felix Bauckholt , Kanstantsin Pashkovich , Laura Sanità

The game of best choice (or "secretary problem") is a model for making an irrevocable decision among a fixed number of candidate choices that are presented sequentially in random order, one at a time. Because the classically optimal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-14 Brant Jones , Katelynn D. Kochalski , Sarah Loeb , Julia C. Walk

One of the basic properties of a queueing network is stability. Roughly speaking, it is the property that the total number of jobs in the network remains bounded as a function of time. One of the key questions related to the stability issue…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-11-19 David Gamarnik , Dmitriy Katz

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

The random-order or secretary model is one of the most popular beyond-worst case model for online algorithms. While it avoids the pessimism of the traditional adversarial model, in practice we cannot expect the input to be presented in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Thomas Kesselheim , Marco Molinaro