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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 consider a two-sided matching problem in which the agents on one side have dichotomous preferences and the other side representing institutions has strict preferences (priorities). It captures several important applications in matching…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Haris Aziz , Md. Shahidul Islam , Szilvia Pápai

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

In the Seat Arrangement problem the goal is to allocate agents to vertices in a graph such that the resulting arrangement is optimal or fair in some way. Examples include an arrangement that maximises utility or one where no agent envies…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-27 José Rodríguez

For some weighted $NP$-complete problems, checking whether a proposed solution is optimal is a non-trivial task. Such is the case for the celebrated traveling salesman problem, or the spin-glass problem in 3 dimensions. In this letter, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Henri Orland , Michel Bauer

We study the existence of stable matchings when agents have choice correspondences instead of preference relations. We extend the framework of \cite{chambers2017choice} by weakening the path independence assumption. For many-to-many…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-05-20 Varun Bansal , Mihir Bhattacharya , Ojasvi Khare

Finding a stable matching is one of the central problems in algorithmic game theory. If participants are allowed to have ties and incomplete preferences, computing a stable matching of maximum cardinality is known to be NP-hard. In this…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Jochen Koenemann , Kanstantsin Pashkovich , Natig Tofigzade

We study the problem of assigning agents to the vertices of a graph such that no pair of neighbors can benefit from swapping assignments -- a property we term neighborhood stability. We further assume that agents' utilities are based solely…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Haris Aziz , Grzegorz Lisowski , Mashbat Suzuki , Jeremy Vollen

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

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

Two-sided matching platforms provide users with menus of match recommendations. To maximize the number of realized matches between the two sides (referred here as customers and suppliers), the platform must balance the inherent tension…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Itai Ashlagi , Anilesh K. Krishnaswamy , Rahul Makhijani , Daniela Saban , Kirankumar Shiragur

We study a generalization of the classical stable matching problem that allows for cardinal preferences (as opposed to ordinal) and fractional matchings (as opposed to integral). After observing that, in this cardinal setting, stable…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Ioannis Caragiannis , Aris Filos-Ratsikas , Panagiotis Kanellopoulos , Rohit Vaish

In many-to-many matching models, substitutable preferences constitute the largest domain for which a pairwise stable matching is guaranteed to exist. In this note, we extend the recently proposed algorithm of Hatfield et al. [3] to test…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-01-04 Haris Aziz , Markus Brill , Paul Harrenstein

The assignment game models a housing market where buyers and sellers are matched, and transaction prices are set so that the resulting allocation is stable. Shapley and Shubik showed that every stable allocation is necessarily built on a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Emile Martinez , Felipe Garrido-Lucero , Umberto Grandi

We consider stable three-dimensional matchings of three categories of agents, such as women, men and dogs. This was suggested long ago by Knuth (1976), but very little seems to have been published on this problem. Based on computer…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Kimmo Eriksson , Jonas Sjostrand , Pontus Strimling

We study the problem of allocating indivisible objects to a set of rational agents where each agent's final utility depends on the intrinsic valuation of the allocated item as well as the allocation within the agent's local neighbourhood.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Sagar Massand , Sunil Simon

We introduce a dynamic mechanism design problem in which the designer wants to offer for sale an item to an agent, and another item to the same agent at some point in the future. The agent's joint distribution of valuations for the two…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Christos Papadimitriou , George Pierrakos , Christos-Alexandros Psomas , Aviad Rubinstein

Several countries successfully use centralized matching schemes for school or higher education assignment, or for entry-level labour markets. In this paper we explore the computational aspects of a possible similar scheme for assigning…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-01-26 Katarina Cechlarova , Tamas Fleiner , David F. Manlove , Iain McBride

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

We investigate verification and existence problems for prominent stability concepts in hedonic games with friends, enemies, and optionally with neutrals [8, 16]. We resolve several (long-standing) open questions [4, 16, 20, 23] and show…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Jiehua Chen , Gergely Csáji , Sanjukta Roy , Sofia Simola