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Motivated by the serious problem that hospitals in rural areas suffer from a shortage of residents, we study the Hospitals/Residents model in which hospitals are associated with lower quotas and the objective is to satisfy them as much as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Hiromichi Goko , Kazuhisa Makino , Shuichi Miyazaki , Yu Yokoi

The Stable Marriage problem (SM), solved by the famous deferred acceptance algorithm of Gale and Shapley (GS), has many natural generalizations. If we allow ties in preferences, then the problem of finding a maximum stable matching becomes…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Gergely Csáji , Tamás Király , Yu Yokoi

Assume that $n = 2k$ potential roommates each have an ordered preference of the $n-1$ others. A stable matching is a perfect matching of the $n$ roommates in which no two unmatched people prefer each other to their matched partners. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Byron Chin , Marcus Michelen

We continue and extend previous work on the parameterized complexity analysis of the NP-hard Stable Roommates with Ties and Incomplete Lists problem, thereby strengthening earlier results both on the side of parameterized hardness as well…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Robert Bredereck , Klaus Heeger , Dušan Knop , Rolf Niedermeier

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 present new integer linear programming (ILP) models for NP-hard optimisation problems in instances of the Stable Marriage problem with Ties and Incomplete lists (SMTI) and its many-to-one generalisation, the Hospitals / Residents problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Maxence Delorme , Sergio García , Jacek Gondzio , Joerg Kalcsics , David Manlove , William Pettersson

In the well-studied Stable Roommates problem, we seek a stable matching of agents into pairs, where no two agents prefer each other over their assigned partners. However, some instances of this problem are unsolvable, lacking any stable…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Frederik Glitzner , David Manlove

In their seminal work on the Stable Marriage Problem (SM), Gale and Shapley introduced a generalization of SM referred to as the Stable Roommates Problem (SR). An instance of SR consists of a set of $2n$ agents, and each agent has…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Will Rosenbaum

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

We investigate the complexity of approximately counting stable roommate assignments in two models: (i) the $k$-attribute model, in which the preference lists are determined by dot products of "preference vectors" with "attribute vectors"…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-04-20 Prasad Chebolu , Leslie Ann Goldberg , Russell Martin

The stable roommates problem is a non-bipartite version of the stable matching problem in a bipartite graph. In this paper, we consider the stable roommates problem with ties. In particular, we focus on strong stability, which is one of the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Naoyuki Kamiyama

An input to the Popular Matching problem, in the roommates setting, consists of a graph $G$ and each vertex ranks its neighbors in strict order, known as its preference. In the Popular Matching problem the objective is to test whether there…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Sushmita Gupta , Pranabendu Misra , Saket Saurabh , Meirav Zehavi

We formalize the problem of selecting the optimal set of options for planning as that of computing the smallest set of options so that planning converges in less than a given maximum of value-iteration passes. We first show that the problem…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Yuu Jinnai , David Abel , D Ellis Hershkowitz , Michael Littman , George Konidaris

We study the problem of finding "fair" stable matchings in the Stable Marriage problem with Incomplete lists (SMI). For an instance $I$ of SMI there may be many stable matchings, providing significantly different outcomes for the sets of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Frances Cooper , David Manlove

The classical Hospitals/Residents problem (HR) models the assignment of junior doctors to hospitals based on their preferences over one another. In an instance of this problem, a stable matching M is sought which ensures that no blocking…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-08-21 Augustine Kwanashie , David F. Manlove

The Hospitals / Residents problem with Couples (HRC) models the allocation of intending junior doctors to hospitals where couples are allowed to submit joint preference lists over pairs of (typically geographically close) hospitals. It is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-21 David F. Manlove , Iain McBride , James Trimble

This paper has two objectives. One is to give a linear time algorithm that solves the stable roommates problem (i.e., obtains one stable matching) using the stable marriage problem. The idea is that a stable matching of a roommate instance…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Kazuo Iwama , Shuichi Miyazaki

The stable roommates problem is a non-bipartite version of the well-known stable matching problem. Teo and Sethuraman proved that, for each instance of the stable roommates problem in a complete graph, there exists a linear inequality…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Naoyuki Kamiyama

It is well known that every stable matching instance $I$ has a rotation poset $R(I)$ that can be computed efficiently and the downsets of $R(I)$ are in one-to-one correspondence with the stable matchings of $I$. Furthermore, for every poset…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Christine T. Cheng , Will Rosenbaum

We study stable matching problems where agents have multilayer preferences: There are $\ell$ layers each consisting of one preference relation for each agent. Recently, Chen et al. [EC '18] studied such problems with strict preferences,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Matthias Bentert , Niclas Boehmer , Klaus Heeger , Tomohiro Koana