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Let $G$ be a bipartite graph where every node has a strict ranking of its neighbors. For every node, its preferences over neighbors extend naturally to preferences over matchings. Matching $N$ is more popular than matching $M$ if the number…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Telikepalli Kavitha

In a graph where vertices have preferences over their neighbors, a matching is called popular if it does not lose a head-to-head election against any other matching when the vertices vote between the matchings. Popular matchings can be seen…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Ildikó Schlotter , Ágnes Cseh

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 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. We consider a useful variation of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-07-06 Mirco Gelain , Maria Silvia Pini , Francesca RossI , Kristen Brent Venable , Toby Walsh

In this paper, we give a simple characterization of a set of popular matchings defined by preference lists with ties. By employing our characterization, we propose a polynomial time algorithm for finding a minimum cost popular matching.

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Tomomi Matsui , Takayoshi Hamaguchi

Given a bipartite graph G = (A u B, E) with strict preference lists and and edge e*, we ask if there exists a popular matching in G that contains the edge e*. We call this the popular edge problem. A matching M is popular if there is no…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-08-05 Agnes Cseh , Telikepalli Kavitha

Matching plays a vital role in the rational allocation of resources in many areas, ranging from market operation to people's daily lives. In economics, the term matching theory is coined for pairing two agents in a specific market to reach…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Jing Ren , Feng Xia , Xiangtai Chen , Jiaying Liu , Mingliang Hou , Ahsan Shehzad , Nargiz Sultanova , Xiangjie Kong

We consider the max-size popular matching problem in a roommates instance G = (V,E) with strict preference lists. A matching M is popular if there is no matching M' in G such that the vertices that prefer M' to M outnumber those that prefer…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-22 Telikepalli Kavitha

Is matching in NC, i.e., is there a deterministic fast parallel algorithm for it? This has been an outstanding open question in TCS for over three decades, ever since the discovery of randomized NC matching algorithms [KUW85, MVV87]. Over…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Nima Anari , Vijay V. Vazirani

We are given a bipartite graph $G = \left( A \cup B, E \right)$. In the one-sided model, every $a \in A$ (often called agents) ranks its neighbours $z \in N_{a}$ strictly, and no $b \in B$ has any preference order over its neighbours $y \in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Koustav De

Let G = ((A,B),E) be an instance of the stable marriage problem where every vertex ranks its neighbors in a strict order of preference. A matching M in G is popular if M does not lose a head-to-head election against any matching. Popular…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Yuri Faenza , Telikepalli Kavitha

We consider the problem of matching applicants to posts where applicants have preferences over posts. Thus the input to our problem is a bipartite graph G = (A U P,E), where A denotes a set of applicants, P is a set of posts, and there are…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Prajakta Nimbhorkar , Arvind Rameshwar

Given a bipartite graph, where the two sets of vertices are applicants and posts and ranks on the edges represent preferences of applicants over posts, a {\em rank-maximal} matching is one in which the maximum number of applicants is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Pratik Ghosal , Adam Kunysz , Katarzyna Paluch

We consider the problem of finding a maximum popular matching in a many-to-many matching setting with two-sided preferences and matroid constraints. This problem was proposed by Kamiyama (2020) and solved in the special case where matroids…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Gergely Csáji , Tamás Király , Yu Yokoi

We consider the many-to-many bipartite matching problem in the presence of two-sided preferences and two-sided lower quotas. The input to our problem is a bipartite graph G=(A U B, E), where each vertex in A U B specifies a strict…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Meghana Nasre , Prajakta Nimbhorkar , Keshav Ranjan , Ankita Sarkar

Many-to-many matching with contracts is studied in the framework of revealed preferences. All preferences are described by choice functions that satisfy natural conditions. Under a no-externality assumption individual preferences can be…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Daniel Lehmann

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

Two actively researched problem settings in matchings under preferences are popular matchings and the three-dimensional stable matching problem with cyclic preferences. In this paper, we apply the optimality notion of the first topic to the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Ágnes Cseh , Jannik Peters

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 stable matching problem sets the economic foundation of several practical applications ranging from school choice and medical residency to ridesharing and refugee placement. It is concerned with finding a matching between two disjoint…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Angelina Brilliantova , Hadi Hosseini