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We study the 3D-Euclidean Multidimensional Stable Roommates problem, which asks whether a given set $V$ of $s\cdot n$ agents with a location in 3-dimensional Euclidean space can be partitioned into $n$ disjoint subsets $\pi = \{R_1 ,\dots ,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Steven Ge , Toshiya Itoh

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

In the stable marriage and roommates problems, a set of agents is given, each of them having a strictly ordered preference list over some or all of the other agents. A matching is a set of disjoint pairs of mutually accepted agents. If any…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-06-01 Ágnes Cseh , David F. Manlove

The stable roommates problem can admit multiple different stable matchings. We have different criteria for deciding which one is optimal, but computing those is often NP-hard. We show that the problem of finding generous or rank-maximal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Sofia Simola , David Manlove

The stable marriage (SM) problem has a wide variety of practical applications, ranging from matching resident doctors to hospitals, to matching students to schools, or more generally to any two-sided market. In the classical formulation, n…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-07-07 M. Gelain , M. S. Pini , F. Rossi , K. B. Venable , T. Walsh

Two-sided popular matchings in bipartite graphs are a well-known generalization of stable matchings in the marriage setting, and they are especially relevant when preference lists are incomplete. In this case, the cardinality of a stable…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Yuri Faenza , Vladlena Powers , Xingyu Zhang

For a set A of n applicants and a set I of m items, we consider a problem of computing a matching of applicants to items, i.e., a function M mapping A to I; here we assume that each applicant $x \in A$ provides a preference list on items in…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-09-29 Toshiya Itoh , Osamu Watanabe

The Stable Roommates problem (SR) is characterized by the preferences of agents over other agents as roommates: each agent ranks all others in strict order of preference. A solution to SR is then a partition of the agents into pairs so that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Esra Erdem , Muge Fidan , David Manlove , Patrick Prosser

Assume that $n = 2k$ potential roommates each have an ordered preference of the $n-1$ others. A stable matching is a perfect matching of the $n$ roommates in which no two unmatched people prefer each other to their matched partners. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Byron Chin , Marcus Michelen

We consider many-to-one matching problems, where one side corresponds to applicants who have preferences and the other side to houses who do not have preferences. We consider two different types of this market: one, where the applicants…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Gergely Csáji

The classic Stable Roommates problem (which is the non-bipartite generalization of the well-known Stable Marriage problem) asks whether there is a stable matching for a given set of agents, i.e. a partitioning of the agents into disjoint…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Jiehua Chen , Danny Hermelin , Manuel Sorge , Harel Yedidsion

We consider a matching problem in a bipartite graph $G=(A\cup B,E)$ where nodes in $A$ are agents having preferences in partial order over their neighbors, while nodes in $B$ are objects without preferences. We propose a polynomial-time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Telikepalli Kavitha , Tamás Király , Jannik Matuschke , Ildikó Schlotter , Ulrike Schmidt-Kraepelin

The efficient computation of large matchings with desirable guarantees is a crucial objective in market design. However, even in simple two-sided matching markets with weak ordinal preferences, finding a maximum-size stable matching is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Gergely Csáji , Frederik Glitzner

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

Popular matchings provide a model of matching under preferences in which a solution corresponds to a Condorcet winner in voting systems. In a bipartite graph in which the vertices have preferences over their neighbours, a matching is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Yuga Kanaya , Kenjiro Takazawa

This paper has two objectives. One is to give a linear time algorithm that solves the stable roommates problem (i.e., obtains one stable matching) using the stable marriage problem. The idea is that a stable matching of a roommate instance…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Kazuo Iwama , Shuichi Miyazaki

Many important stable matching problems are known to be NP-hard, even when strong restrictions are placed on the input. In this paper we seek to identify structural properties of instances of stable matching problems which will allow us to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-14 Kitty Meeks , Baharak Rastegari

The stable roommates problem with $n$ agents has worst case complexity $O(n^2)$ in time and space. Random instances can be solved faster and with less memory, however. We introduce an algorithm that has average time and space complexity…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-01-22 Stephan Mertens

In this paper, we consider the problem of computing an optimal matching in a bipartite graph where elements of one side of the bipartition specify preferences over the other side, and one or both sides can have capacities and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Meghana Nasre , Prajakta Nimbhorkar , Nada Pulath

Since the early days of research in algorithms and complexity, the computation of stable matchings is a core topic. While in the classic setting the goal is to match up two agents (either from different "gender" (this is Stable Marriage) or…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Robert Bredereck , Klaus Heeger , Dušan Knop , Rolf Niedermeier