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In a multiple partners matching problem the agents can have multiple partners up to their capacities. In this paper we consider both the two-sided many-to-many stable matching problem and the one-sided stable fixtures problem under…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Péter Biró , Gergely Csáji

We consider the problem of stable matching with dynamic preference lists. At each time step, the preference list of some player may change by swapping random adjacent members. The goal of a central agency (algorithm) is to maintain an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-29 Varun Kanade , Nikos Leonardos , Frédéric Magniez

We study the many-to-many bipartite matching problem in the presence of preferences where ties, as well as lower quotas, may appear on both sides of the bipartition. The input is a bipartite graph $G=(A \cup B, E)$, where each vertex in $A…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Meghana Nasre , Prajakta Nimbhorkar , Keshav Ranjan

The stable marriage problem is a well-known problem of matching men to women so that no man and woman, who are not married to each other, both prefer each other. Such a problem has a wide variety of practical applications, ranging from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-11-25 Maria Silvia Pini , Francesca Rossi , Brent Venable , Toby Walsh

For a set $A$ of $n$ people and a set $B$ of $m$ items, with each person having a preference list that ranks all items from most wanted to least wanted, we consider the problem of matching every person with a unique item. A matching $M$ is…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-10-04 Suthee Ruangwises , Osamu Watanabe

In the marriage problem, a variant of the bi-parted matching problem, each member has a `wish-list' expressing his/her preference for all possible partners; this list consists of random, positive real numbers drawn from a certain…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-25 Th. M. Nieuwenhuizen

We propose an $O(n^2)$-time algorithm to determine whether a given matching is efficient in the roommates problem.

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Keita Kuwahara

Feature correspondence selection is pivotal to many feature-matching based tasks in computer vision. Searching for spatially k-nearest neighbors is a common strategy for extracting local information in many previous works. However, there is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Chen Zhao , Zhiguo Cao , Chi Li , Xin Li , Jiaqi Yang

The classical linear ordering problem seeks a single ranking representing a given preference matrix. While suitable for homogeneous populations, it fails when observed preferences arise from several latent groups with distinct ranking…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Juan A. Aledo , Concepción Domínguez , Juan de Dios Jaime-Alcántara , Mercedes Landete

A super-stable matching, which was introduced by Irving, is a solution concept in a variant of the stable matching problem in which the preferences may contain ties. Irving proposed a polynomial-time algorithm for the problem of finding a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Naoyuki Kamiyama

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

We tackle the problem of partitioning players into groups of fixed size, such as allocating eligible students to shared dormitory rooms. Each student submits preferences over the other individual students. We study several settings, which…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Ágnes Cseh , Tamás Fleiner , Petra Harján

In the Stable Roommates problem, we seek a stable matching of the agents into pairs, in which no two agents have an incentive to deviate from their assignment. It is well known that a stable matching is unlikely to exist, but a stable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Frederik Glitzner , David Manlove

The graph matching optimization problem is an essential component for many tasks in computer vision, such as bringing two deformable objects in correspondence. Naturally, a wide range of applicable algorithms have been proposed in the last…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Stefan Haller , Lorenz Feineis , Lisa Hutschenreiter , Florian Bernard , Carsten Rother , Dagmar Kainmüller , Paul Swoboda , Bogdan Savchynskyy

The computational study of election problems generally focuses on questions related to the winner or set of winners of an election. But social preference functions such as Kemeny rule output a full ranking of the candidates (a consensus).…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Zack Fitzsimmons , Edith Hemaspaandra

The linear ordering problem (LOP), which consists in ordering M objects from their pairwise comparisons, is commonly applied in many areas of research. While efforts have been made to devise efficient LOP algorithms, verification of whether…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Leszek Szczecinski , Harsh Sukheja

Items popularity is a strong signal in recommendation algorithms. It strongly affects collaborative filtering approaches and it has been proven to be a very good baseline in terms of results accuracy. Even though we miss an actual…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Vito Walter Anelli , Tommaso Di Noia , Eugenio Di Sciascio , Azzurra Ragone , Joseph Trotta

String consensus problems aim at finding a string that minimizes some given distance with respect to an input set of strings. In particular, in the Closest string problem, we are given a set of strings of equal length and a radius $d$. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Estéban Gabory , Laurent Bulteau , Gabriele Fici , Hilde Verbeek

Stable matching is a fundamental problem studied both in economics and computer science. The task is to find a matching between two sides of agents that have preferences over who they want to be matched with. A matching is stable if no pair…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Juho Hirvonen , Sara Ranjbaran

The Seat Arrangement Problem is a problem of finding a desirable seat arrangement for given preferences of agents and a seat graph that represents a configuration of seats. In this paper, we consider decision problems of determining if an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Sota Kawase , Shuichi Miyazaki