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In the Stable Roommates Problem (SR), a set of $2n$ agents rank one another in a linear order. The goal is to find a matching that is stable: one that has no pair of agents who mutually prefer each other over their assigned partners. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Christine T. Cheng , Will Rosenbaum

We initiate the study of external manipulations in Stable Marriage by considering several manipulative actions as well as several manipulation goals. For instance, one goal is to make sure that a given pair of agents is matched in a stable…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Niclas Boehmer , Robert Bredereck , Klaus Heeger , Rolf Niedermeier

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

The Stable Marriage Problem is to find a one-to-one matching for two equally sized sets of agents. Due to its widespread applications in the real world, especially the unique importance to the centralized match maker, a very large number of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-06-26 Gui-Yuan Shi , Yi-Xiu Kong , Bo-Lun Chen , Guang-Hui Yuan , Rui-Jie Wu

The classical Stable Roommates problem is to decide whether there exists a matching of an even number of agents such that no two agents which are not matched to each other would prefer to be with each other rather than with their…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Robert Bredereck , Jiehua Chen , Ugo Paavo Finnendahl , Rolf Niedermeier

We continue and extend previous work on the parameterized complexity analysis of the NP-hard Stable Roommates with Ties and Incomplete Lists problem, thereby strengthening earlier results both on the side of parameterized hardness as well…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Robert Bredereck , Klaus Heeger , Dušan Knop , Rolf Niedermeier

The stable marriage problem has been introduced in order to describe a complex system where individuals attempt to optimise their own satisfaction, subject to mutually conflicting constraints. Due to the potential large applicability of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Caldarelli , A. Capocci

In the stable marriage problem, a set of men and a set of women are given, each of whom has a strictly ordered preference list over the acceptable agents in the opposite class. A matching is called stable if it is not blocked by any pair of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Ágnes Cseh , Klaus Heeger

Following up on purely theoretical work of Bredereck et al. [AAAI 2020], we contribute further theoretical insights into adapting stable two-sided matchings to change. Moreover, we perform extensive empirical studies hinting at numerous…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Niclas Boehmer , Klaus Heeger , Rolf Niedermeier

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…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Rohith Reddy Gangam , Tung Mai , Nitya Raju , Vijay V. Vazirani

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

Roommate problems with convex preferences always have stable matchings. Efficiency and individual rationality are, moreover, compatible with strategyproofness in such convex roommate problems. Both of these results fail without the…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-04-01 Sophie Bade

In this paper we consider stable matchings subject to assignment constraints. These are matchings that require certain assigned pairs to be included, insist that some other assigned pairs are not, and, importantly, are stable. Our main…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-06-14 Gregory Gutin , Philip R. Neary , Anders Yeo

The stable marriage problem and its extensions have been extensively studied, with much of the work in the literature assuming that agents fully know their own preferences over alternatives. This assumption however is not always practical…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-21 Baharak Rastegari , Paul Goldberg , David Manlove

Stable matching in a community consisting of men and women is a classical combinatorial problem that has been the subject of intense theoretical and empirical study since its introduction in 1962 in a seminal paper by Gale and Shapley, who…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Hugo Gimbert , Claire Mathieu , Simon Mauras

In the multidimensional stable roommate problem, agents have to be allocated to rooms and have preferences over sets of potential roommates. We study the complexity of finding good allocations of agents to rooms under the assumption that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Niclas Boehmer , Edith Elkind

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

The literature on centralized matching markets often assumes that a true preference of each player is known to herself and fixed, but empirical evidence casts doubt on its plausibility. To circumvent the problem, we consider evolutionary…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-05-18 Hidemasa Ishii , Nariaki Nishino

It is well known that every stable matching instance $I$ has a rotation poset $R(I)$ that can be computed efficiently and the downsets of $R(I)$ are in one-to-one correspondence with the stable matchings of $I$. Furthermore, for every poset…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Christine T. Cheng , Will Rosenbaum

We study the problem of capacity modification in the many-to-one stable matching of workers and firms. Our goal is to systematically study how the set of stable matchings changes when some seats are added to or removed from the firms. We…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Salil Gokhale , Shivika Narang , Samarth Singla , Rohit Vaish