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Large-scale, two-sided matching platforms must find market outcomes that align with user preferences while simultaneously learning these preferences from data. Classical notions of stability (Gale and Shapley, 1962; Shapley and Shubik,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Meena Jagadeesan , Alexander Wei , Yixin Wang , Michael I. Jordan , Jacob Steinhardt

Two-sided matching platforms rely on preferences from both sides, yet participants can evaluate only a small fraction of potential partners. In practice, they use low-cost pre-match screening, e.g., interviews, profile views, or trial…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Amirmahdi Mirfakhar , Xuchuang Wang , Mengfan Xu , Hedyeh Beyhaghi , Mohammad Hajiesmaili

Multi-objective Bayesian optimization aims to find the Pareto front of trade-offs between a set of expensive objectives while collecting as few samples as possible. In some cases, it is possible to evaluate the objectives separately, and a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-04 Jack M. Buckingham , Sebastian Rojas Gonzalez , Juergen Branke

Many real-world decision-making problems involve multiple decision-making stages and various objectives. Besides, most of the decisions need to be made before having complete knowledge about all aspects of the problem leaves some sort of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Babooshka Shavazipour , Theodor J. Stewart

The accurate applicant selection for university education is imperative to ensure fairness and optimal use of institutional resources. Although various approaches are operational in tertiary educational institutions for selecting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-07-10 Oludayo O. Olugbara , Manish Joshi , Michael M. Modiba , Virendrakumar C. Bhavsar

In a dynamic matching market, such as a marriage or job market, how should agents balance accepting a proposed match with the cost of continuing their search? We consider this problem in a discrete setting, in which agents have cardinal…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Ishan Agarwal , Richard Cole , Yixin Tao

We consider a learning problem for the stable marriage model under unknown preferences for the left side of the market. We focus on the centralized case, where at each time step, an online platform matches the agents, and obtains a noisy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Andreas Athanasopoulos , Anne-Marie George , Christos Dimitrakakis

Modern multi-stage retrieval systems are comprised of a candidate generation stage followed by one or more reranking stages. In such an architecture, the quality of the final ranked list may not be sensitive to the quality of initial…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-10-11 J. Shane Culpepper , Charles L. A. Clarke , Jimmy Lin

Multistage stochastic programming is a powerful tool allowing decision-makers to revise their decisions at each stage based on the realized uncertainty. However, in practice, organizations are not able to be fully flexible, as decisions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Sezen Ece Kayacık , Beste Basciftci , Albert H Schrotenboer , Evrim Ursavas

Two-sided matching markets have long existed to pair agents in the absence of regulated exchanges. A common example is school choice, where a matching mechanism uses student and school preferences to assign students to schools. In such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Stefania Ionescu , Yuhao Du , Kenneth Joseph , Anikó Hannák

Current autoencoder-based disentangled representation learning methods achieve disentanglement by penalizing the (aggregate) posterior to encourage statistical independence of the latent factors. This approach introduces a trade-off between…

In a stable matching setting, we consider a query model that allows for an interactive learning algorithm to make precisely one type of query: proposing a matching, the response to which is either that the proposed matching is stable, or a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Ehsan Emamjomeh-Zadeh , Yannai A. Gonczarowski , David Kempe

We study a Markov matching market involving a planner and a set of strategic agents on the two sides of the market. At each step, the agents are presented with a dynamical context, where the contexts determine the utilities. The planner…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Yifei Min , Tianhao Wang , Ruitu Xu , Zhaoran Wang , Michael I. Jordan , Zhuoran Yang

Online learning in a decentralized two-sided matching markets, where the demand-side (players) compete to match with the supply-side (arms), has received substantial interest because it abstracts out the complex interactions in matching…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Tejas Pagare , Avishek Ghosh

Decentralized prediction markets (DePMs) allow open participation in event-based wagering without fully relying on centralized intermediaries. We review the history of DePMs which date back to 2011 and includes hundreds of proposals.…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Nahid Rahman , Joseph Al-Chami , Jeremy Clark

This article introduces a generalized framework for Decentralized Learning formulated as a Multi-Objective Optimization problem, in which both distributed agents and a central coordinator contribute independent, potentially conflicting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-21 Roberto Morales , Umberto Biccari

Many two-sided matching markets, from labor markets to school choice programs, use a clearinghouse based on the applicant-proposing deferred acceptance algorithm, which is well known to be strategy-proof for the applicants. Nonetheless, a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Itai Ashlagi , Yannai A. Gonczarowski

Centralized assignment markets have historically relied on Deferred-Acceptance (DA) algorithms, which do not incorporate multiple objectives into the assignment. In this work, we propose an optimization-based many-to-one assignment…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Dimitris Bertsimas , Carol Gao

The rise of algorithmic decision making led to active researches on how to define and guarantee fairness, mostly focusing on one-shot decision making. In several important applications such as hiring, however, decisions are made in multiple…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-13 Vitalii Emelianov , George Arvanitakis , Nicolas Gast , Krishna Gummadi , Patrick Loiseau

Coordination failure reduces match quality among employers and candidates in the job market, resulting in a large number of unfilled positions and/or unstable, short-term employment. Centralized job search engines provide a platform that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Amar Saini