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The input of the popular roommates problem consists of a graph $G = (V, E)$ and for each vertex $v\in V$, strict preferences over the neighbors of $v$. Matching $M$ is more popular than $M'$ if the number of vertices preferring $M$ to $M'$…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Erika Bérczi-Kovács , Ágnes Cseh , Kata Kosztolányi , Attila Mályusz

We consider the popular matching problem in a roommates instance with strict preference lists. While popular matchings always exist in a bipartite instance, they need not exist in a roommates instance. The complexity of the popular matching…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Telikepalli Kavitha

Given a graph $G = (V,E)$ where every vertex has a weak ranking over its neighbors, we consider the problem of computing an optimal matching as per agent preferences. Classical notions of optimality such as stability and its relaxation…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Telikepalli Kavitha , Rohit Vaish

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

We study popularity for matchings under preferences. This solution concept captures matchings that do not lose against any other matching in a majority vote by the agents. A popular matching is said to be robust if it is popular among…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Martin Bullinger , Gergely Csáji , Rohith Reddy Gangam , Parnian Shahkar

Let G = (A U P, E) be a bipartite graph where A denotes a set of agents, P denotes a set of posts and ranks on the edges denote preferences of the agents over posts. A matching M in G is rank-maximal if it matches the maximum number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-09-18 Pratik Ghoshal , Meghana Nasre , Prajakta Nimbhorkar

Suppose that each member of a set of agents has a preference list of a subset of houses, possibly involving ties and each agent and house has their capacity denoting the maximum number of correspondingly agents/houses that can be matched to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-01-04 Katarzyna Paluch

In the house allocation problem with lower and upper quotas, we are given a set of applicants and a set of projects. Each applicant has a strictly ordered preference list over the projects, while the projects are equipped with a lower and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Ágnes Cseh , Tobias Friedrich , Jannik Peters

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

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

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 popular matching problem is of matching a set of applicants to a set of posts, where each applicant has a preference list, ranking a non-empty subset of posts in the order of preference, possibly with ties. A matching M is popular if…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Changyong Hu , Vijay K. Garg

We consider the cheating strategies for the popular matchings problem. The popular matchings problem can be defined as follows: Let G = (A U P, E) be a bipartite graph where A denotes a set of agents, P denotes a set of posts and the edges…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-01-08 Meghana Nasre

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 $G$ be a digraph where every node has preferences over its incoming edges. The preferences of a node extend naturally to preferences over branchings, i.e., directed forests; a branching $B$ is popular if $B$ does not lose a head-to-head…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Telikepalli Kavitha , Tamás Király , Jannik Matuschke , Ildikó Schlotter , Ulrike Schmidt-Kraepelin

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 study the Popular Matching problem in multiple models, where the preferences of the agents in the instance may change or may be unknown/uncertain. In particular, we study an Uncertainty model, where each agent has a possible set of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Gergely Csáji

We study the problem of assigning jobs to applicants. Each applicant has a weight and provides a preference list ranking a subset of the jobs. A matching M is popular if there is no other matching M' such that the weight of the applicants…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-07-05 Julián Mestre

We study the stable matching problem in non-bipartite graphs with incomplete but strict preference lists, where the edges have weights and the goal is to compute a stable matching of minimum or maximum weight. This problem is known to be…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Linda Farczadi , Natália Guričanová

We study the problem of counting the number of popular matchings in a given instance. A popular matching instance consists of agents A and houses H, where each agent ranks a subset of houses according to their preferences. A matching is an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-12-13 Rupam Acharyya , Sourav Chakraborty , Nitesh Jha