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Many allocation problems in multiagent systems rely on agents specifying cardinal preferences. However, allocation mechanisms can be sensitive to small perturbations in cardinal preferences, thus causing agents who make ``small" or…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Vijay Menon , Kate Larson

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 this work, we consider ranking problems among a finite set of candidates: for instance, selecting the top-$k$ items among a larger list of candidates or obtaining the full ranking of all items in the set. These problems are often…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-04 Ruiting Liang , Jake A. Soloff , Rina Foygel Barber , Rebecca Willett

The Hospital Residents problem with sizes (HRS) is a generalization of the well-studied hospital residents (HR) problem. In the HRS problem, an agent $a$ has a size $s(a)$ and the agent occupies $s(a)$ many positions of the hospital $h$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Haricharan Balasundaram , J B Krishnashree , Girija Limaye , Meghana Nasre

The Stable Marriage Problem (SMP) is a well-known matching problem first introduced and solved by Gale and Shapley (1962). Several variants and extensions to this problem have since been investigated to cover a wider set of applications.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-05-03 Sofie De Clercq , Steven Schockaert , Martine De Cock , Ann Nowé

Consider the standard hospitals/residents problem, or the two-sided many-to-one stable matching problem, and assume that the true preference lists of both sides are complete and strict. The lists actually submitted, however, are truncated.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-08 Hisao Tamaki

In this paper, we construct and compare algorithmic approaches to solve the Preference Consistency Problem for preference statements based on hierarchical models. Instances of this problem contain a set of preference statements that are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Anne-Marie George , Nic Wilson , Barry O'Sullivan

The classical Hospitals/Residents problem (HR) models the assignment of junior doctors to hospitals based on their preferences over one another. In an instance of this problem, a stable matching M is sought which ensures that no blocking…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-08-21 Augustine Kwanashie , David F. Manlove

This paper gives an overview on and summarizes existing complexity and algorithmic results of some variants of the Stable Marriage and the Stable Roommates problems. The last section defines a list of stable matching problems mentioned in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Jiehua Chen

Efficient computability is an important property of solution concepts in matching markets. We consider the computational complexity of finding and verifying various solution concepts in trading networks-multi-sided matching markets with…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Tamás Fleiner , Zsuzsanna Jankó , Ildikó Schlotter , Alexander Teytelboym

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

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

We define and study a new variant of the secretary problem. Whereas in the classic setting multiple secretaries compete for a single position, we study the case where the secretaries arrive one at a time and are assigned, in an on-line…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-05 Yakov Babichenko , Yuval Emek , Michal Feldman , Boaz Patt-Shamir , Ron Peretz , Rann Smorodinsky

The stable allocation problem is a many-to-many generalization of the well-known stable marriage problem, where we seek a bipartite assignment between, say, jobs (of varying sizes) and machines (of varying capacities) that is "stable" based…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-26 Ágnes Cseh , Brian C. Dean

We study a variant of the Student-Project Allocation problem with lecturer preferences over Students where ties are allowed in the preference lists of students and lecturers (SPA-ST). We investigate the concept of strong stability in this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Sofiat Olaosebikan , David Manlove

We study the Stable Fixtures problem, a many-to-many generalisation of the classical non-bipartite Stable Roommates matching problem. Building on the foundational work of Tan on stable partitions, we extend his results to this significantly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Frederik Glitzner , David Manlove

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

In this paper, we consider a matroid generalization of the stable matching problem. In particular, we consider the setting where preferences may contain ties. For this generalization, we propose a polynomial-time algorithm for the problem…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Naoyuki Kamiyama

We consider popular matching problems in both bipartite and non-bipartite graphs with strict preference lists. It is known that every stable matching is a min-size popular matching. A subclass of max-size popular matchings called dominant…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Yuri Faenza , Telikepalli Kavitha , Vladlena Powers , Xingyu Zhang

In a stable matching setting, we consider a query model that allows for an interactive learning algorithm to make precisely one type of query: proposing a matching, the response to which is either that the proposed matching is stable, or a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Ehsan Emamjomeh-Zadeh , Yannai A. Gonczarowski , David Kempe