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In many-to-many matching models, substitutable preferences constitute the largest domain for which a pairwise stable matching is guaranteed to exist. In this note, we extend the recently proposed algorithm of Hatfield et al. [3] to test…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-01-04 Haris Aziz , Markus Brill , Paul Harrenstein

We study stable matchings that are robust to preference changes in the two-sided stable matching setting of Gale and Shapley [GS62]. Given two instances $A$ and $B$ on the same set of agents, a matching is said to be robust if it is stable…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Rohith Reddy Gangam , Tung Mai , Nitya Raju , Vijay V. Vazirani

In this work, we show that for all statistical estimation problems, a natural MMSE instability (discontinuity) condition implies the failure of stable algorithms, serving as a version of OGP for estimation tasks. Using this criterion, we…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Xifan Yu , Ilias Zadik

Various classes of stable finite difference schemes can be constructed to obtain a numerical solution. It is important to select among all stable schemes such a scheme that is optimal in terms of certain additional criteria. In this study,…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2010-06-01 Petr N. Vabishchevich

We investigate the following many-to-one stable matching problem with diversity constraints (SMTI-Diverse): Given a set of students and a set of colleges which have preferences over each other, where the students have overlapping types, and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Jiehua Chen , Robert Ganian , Thekla Hamm

Motivated by questions in robust control and switched linear dynamical systems, we consider the problem checking whether all convex combinations of k matrices in R^{n x n} are stable. In particular, we are interested whether there exist…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-01-15 L. Gurvits , A. Olshevsky

We consider the stability of matchings when individuals strategically submit preference information to a publicly known algorithm. Most pure Nash equilibria of the ensuing game yield a matching that is unstable with respect to the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-11 James P. Bailey , Craig A. Tovey

We consider the stable matching problem when the preference lists are not given explicitly but are represented in a succinct way and ask whether the problem becomes computationally easier and investigate other implications. We give…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-21 Marvin Künnemann , Daniel Moeller , Ramamohan Paturi , Stefan Schneider

We study the existence of stable matchings when agents have choice correspondences instead of preference relations. We extend the framework of \cite{chambers2017choice} by weakening the path independence assumption. For many-to-many…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-05-20 Varun Bansal , Mihir Bhattacharya , Ojasvi Khare

This paper concerns piecewise-smooth maps on $\mathbb{R}^d$ that are continuous but not differentiable on switching manifolds (where the functional form of the map changes). The stability of fixed points on switching manifolds is…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-12-12 David J. W. Simpson

The workflow satisfiability problem is concerned with determining whether it is possible to find an allocation of authorized users to the steps in a workflow in such a way that all constraints are satisfied. The problem is NP-hard in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-10-16 J. Crampton , R. Crowston , G. Gutin , M. Jones , M. S. Ramanujan

Super-stability is one of the stability concepts in the stable matching problem with ties. It is known that there may not exist a super-stable matching, and the existence of a super-stable matching can be checked in polynomial time. In this…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Naoyuki Kamiyama

We show that computing the interleaving distance between two multi-graded persistence modules is NP-hard. More precisely, we show that deciding whether two modules are $1$-interleaved is NP-complete, already for bigraded, interval…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Håvard Bakke Bjerkevik , Magnus Bakke Botnan , Michael Kerber

Suppose each of $n$ men and $n$ women is located at a point in a metric space. A woman ranks the men in order of their distance to her from closest to farthest, breaking ties at random. The men rank the women similarly. An interesting…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Hossein Karkeh Abadi , Balaji Prabhakar

In this paper, for the first time in the literature, we study the stability of solutions of two classes of feasibility (i.e., split equality and split feasibility) problems by set-valued and variational analysis techniques. Our idea is to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-23 Vu Thi Huong , Hong-Kun Xu , Nguyen Dong Yen

We give an elementary proof of a somewhat curious result, namely, that deciding whether a convex function is self-concordant is in general an intractable problem.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-04-01 Lek-Heng Lim

An input to the Popular Matching problem, in the roommates setting, consists of a graph $G$ and each vertex ranks its neighbors in strict order, known as its preference. In the Popular Matching problem the objective is to test whether there…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Sushmita Gupta , Pranabendu Misra , Saket Saurabh , Meirav Zehavi

This paper investigates why and when the edge-based districting problem becomes computationally intractable. The overall problem is represented as an exact mathematical programming formulation consisting of an objective function and several…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Niklas Jost , Adolfo Escobedo , Alice Kirchheim

We consider the three-dimensional stable matching problem with cyclic preferences, a problem originally proposed by Knuth. Despite extensive study of the problem by experts from different areas, the question of whether every instance of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Kanstantsin Pashkovich , Laurent Poirrier

In the Stable Marriage Problem two sets of agents must be paired according to mutual preferences, which may happen to conflict. We present two generalizations of its sex-oriented version, aiming to take into account correlations between the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Caldarelli , Andrea Capocci , Paolo Laureti