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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

In two-sided matching markets, ensuring both stability and strategy-proofness poses a significant challenge; it is impossible when agents' preferences are unrestricted. But what if agents' preferences have specific restricted structures?…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-07-03 Pinaki Mandal

We study the stable marriage problem in the partial information setting where the agents, although they have an underlying true strict linear order, are allowed to specify partial orders. Specifically, we focus on the case where the agents…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Vijay Menon , Kate Larson

For most people, social contacts play an integral part in finding a new job. As observed by Granovetter's seminal study, the proportion of jobs obtained through social contacts is usually large compared to those obtained through postings or…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-07 Esteban Arcaute , Sergei Vassilvitskii

Human mating is a complex phenomenon. Although men and women have different preferences in mate selection, there should be compatibility in these preferences since human mating requires agreement of both parties. We investigate how…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-07-27 Haluk O. Bingol , Omer Basar

A well known result states that stability criterion for matchings in two-sided markets doesn't ensure uniqueness. This opens the door for a moral question with regard to the optimal stable matching from a social point of view. Here, a new…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Royi Jacobovic

Stable Marriage is a fundamental problem to both computer science and economics. Four well-known NP-hard optimization versions of this problem are the Sex-Equal Stable Marriage (SESM), Balanced Stable Marriage (BSM), max-Stable Marriage…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Sushmita Gupta , Saket Saurabh , Meirav Zehavi

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 thoroughly study a generalized version of the classic Stable Marriage and Stable Roommates problems where agents may share partners. We consider two prominent stability concepts: ordinal stability [Aharoni and Fleiner, Journal of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Jiehua Chen , Sanjukta Roy , Manuel Sorge

In two-sided matching markets, the agents are partitioned into two sets. Each agent wishes to be matched to an agent in the other set and has a strict preference over these potential matches. A matching is stable if there are no blocking…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-26 Georgios Askalidis , Nicole Immorlica , Emmanouil Pountourakis

We present a revealed preference characterization of marital stability where some couples are committed. A couple is committed if they can divorce only with mutual consent. We provide theoretical insights into the potential of the…

General Economics · Economics 2024-09-04 Mikhail Freer , Khushboo Surana

It is well known that a stable matching in a many-to-one matching market with couples need not exist. We introduce a new matching algorithm for such markets and show that for a general class of large random markets the algorithm will find a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Itai Ashlagi , Mark Braverman , Avinatan Hassidim

Some aspects of the problem of stable marriage are discussed. There are two distinguished marriage plans: the fully transferable case, where money can be transferred between the participants, and the fully non transferable case where each…

Econometrics · Economics 2018-05-18 Gershon Wolansky

We introduce the problem of adapting a stable matching to forced and forbidden pairs. Specifically, given a stable matching $M_1$, a set $Q$ of forced pairs, and a set $P$ of forbidden pairs, we want to find a stable matching that includes…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Niclas Boehmer , Klaus Heeger

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

In this paper we show that when individuals in a bipartite network exclusively choose partners and exchange valued goods with their partners, then there exists a set of exchanges that are pair-wise stable. Pair-wise stability implies that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2010-11-12 Ankur Mani , Asuman Ozdaglar , Alex , Pentland

We study a variant of the Student-Project Allocation problem with lecturer preferences over Students where ties are allowed in the preference lists of students and lecturers (SPA-ST). We investigate the concept of strong stability in this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Sofiat Olaosebikan , David Manlove

We study (coalitional) exchange stability, which Alcalde [Economic Design, 1995] introduced as an alternative solution concept for matching markets involving property rights, such as assigning persons to two-bed rooms. Here, a matching of a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Jiehua Chen , Adrian Chmurovic , Fabian Jogl , Manuel Sorge

The stable marriage problem with ties is a well-studied and interesting problem in game theory. We are given a set of men and a set of women. Each individual has a preference ordering on the opposite group, which can possibly contain ties.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Felix Bauckholt , Laura Sanità

In considering the college admissions problem, almost fifty years ago, Gale and Shapley came up with a simple abstraction based on preferences of students and colleges. They introduced the concept of stability and optimality; and proposed…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-05-04 Jian Liu , Dah Ming Chiu