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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 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 classical weighted perfect matchings problem for bipartite graphs or sometimes referred to as the assignment problem, i.e., given a weighted bipartite graph $G = (U\cup V,E)$ with weights $w : E \rightarrow \mathcal{R}$ we are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Megha Khosla , Avishek Anand

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

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

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 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

Our input is a directed, rooted graph $G = (V \cup \{r\},E)$ where each vertex in $V$ has a partial order preference over its incoming edges. The preferences of a vertex extend naturally to preferences over arborescences rooted at $r$. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Telikepalli Kavitha , Kazuhisa Makino , Ildikó Schlotter , Yu Yokoi

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 present a weighted approach to compute a maximum cardinality matching in an arbitrary bipartite graph. Our main result is a new algorithm that takes as input a weighted bipartite graph $G(A\cup B,E)$ with edge weights of $0$ or $1$. Let…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Nathaniel Lahn , Sharath Raghvendra

We consider the problem of computing popular matchings in a bipartite graph G = (R U H, E) where R and H denote a set of residents and a set of hospitals respectively. Each hospital h has a positive capacity denoting the number of residents…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Meghana Nasre , Amit Rawat

We investigate weighted settings of popular matching problems with matroid constraints. The concept of popularity was originally defined for matchings in bipartite graphs, where vertices have preferences over the incident edges. There are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Gergely Csáji , Tamás Király , Kenjiro Takazawa , Yu Yokoi

Given an integer weighted bipartite graph $\{G=(U\sqcup V, E), w:E\rightarrow \mathbb{Z}\}$ we consider the problems of finding all the edges that occur in some minimum weight matching of maximum cardinality and enumerating all the minimum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-03-27 Carlos E. Valencia , Marcos C. Vargas

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

A recently introduced restricted variant of the multidimensional stable roommate problem is the roommate diversity problem: each agent belongs to one of two types (e.g., red and blue), and the agents' preferences over the coalitions solely…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Steven Ge , Toshiya Itoh

Our input is a complete graph $G = (V,E)$ on $n$ vertices where each vertex has a strict ranking of all other vertices in $G$. Our goal is to construct a matching in $G$ that is popular. A matching $M$ is popular if $M$ does not lose a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Ágnes Cseh , Telikepalli Kavitha

We consider stable and popular matching problems in arbitrary graphs, which are referred to as stable roommates instances. We extend the 3/2-approximation algorithm for the maximum size weakly stable matching problem to the roommates case,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Gergely Csáji

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

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

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