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In many economic contexts, agents from a same population team up to better exploit their human capital. In such contexts (often called "roommate matching problems"), stable matchings may fail to exist even when utility is transferable. We…

General Economics · Economics 2021-02-15 Pierre-André Chiappori , Alfred Galichon , Bernard Salanié

This paper introduces a unified framework for stable matching, which nests the traditional definition of stable matching in finite markets and the continuum definition of stable matching from Azevedo and Leshno (2016) as special cases.…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-05-26 Nick Arnosti

Most recommender systems (RS) research assumes that a user's utility can be maximized independently of the utility of the other agents (e.g., other users, content providers). In realistic settings, this is often not true---the dynamics of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Martin Mladenov , Elliot Creager , Omer Ben-Porat , Kevin Swersky , Richard Zemel , Craig Boutilier

We study a many-to-one matching model inspired by school choice, where schools evaluate applicants using multiple rankings rather than a single priority order. We model each school's evaluation with social choice criteria to reflect the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Haoyu Song , Thanh Nguyen , Young-san Lin

This paper studies a matching problem in which a group of agents cooperate with agents on two sides. In environments with either nontransferable or transferable utilities, we demonstrate that a stable outcome exists when cooperations…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-09-16 Chao Huang

We study a centralized discrete-time dynamic two-way matching model with finitely many agent types. Agents arrive stochastically over time and join their type-dedicated queues waiting to be matched. We focus on availability-based policies…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Süleyman Kerimov , Pengyu Qian , Mingwei Yang , Sophie H. Yu

We study uncoordinated matching markets with additional local constraints that capture, e.g., restricted information, visibility, or externalities in markets. Each agent is a node in a fixed matching network and strives to be matched to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-09-16 Martin Hoefer , Lisa Wagner

Many centralized mechanisms for two-sided matching markets that enjoy strong theoretical properties assume that the planner solicits full information on the preferences of each participating agent. In particular, they expect that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Yuri Faenza , Aapeli Vuorinen

In many labor markets, workers and firms are connected via affiliative relationships. A management consulting firm wishes to both accept the best new workers but also place its current affiliated workers at strong firms. Similarly, a…

General Economics · Economics 2020-09-28 Samuel Dooley , John P. Dickerson

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 introduce a new algorithm for finding stable matchings in multi-sided matching markets. Our setting is motivated by a PhD market of students, advisors, and co-advisors, and can be generalized to supply chain networks viewed as $n$-sided…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Maximilian Mordig , Riccardo Della Vecchia , Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi , Bernhard Schölkopf

We study the problem of decision-making in the setting of a scarcity of shared resources when the preferences of agents are unknown a priori and must be learned from data. Taking the two-sided matching market as a running example, we focus…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Xiaowu Dai , Michael I. Jordan

Preferences, fundamental in all forms of strategic behavior and collective decision-making, in their raw form, are an abstract ordering on a set of alternatives. Agents, we assume, revise their preferences as they gain more information…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Hans Riess , Gregory Henselman-Petrusek , Michael C. Munger , Robert Ghrist , Zachary I. Bell , Michael M. Zavlanos

We propose an aggregate notion of non-transferable utility (NTU) stability for decentralized matching markets with fixed prices, where market clearing is achieved through one-sided money burning, which can be interpreted as waiting. Agents…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-05-11 Alfred Galichon , Yu-Wei Hsieh , Antoine Jacquet

Recommender systems play an increasingly crucial role in shaping people's opportunities, particularly in online dating platforms. It is essential from the user's perspective to increase the probability of matching with a suitable partner…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yoji Tomita , Tomohiki Yokoyama

We consider a model for repeated stochastic matching where compatibility is probabilistic, is realized the first time agents are matched, and persists in the future. Such a model has applications in the gig economy, kidney exchange, and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Mobin Y. Jeloudar , Irene Lo , Tristan Pollner , Amin Saberi

In many two-sided markets, the parties to be matched have incomplete information about their characteristics. We consider the settings where the parties engaged are extremely patient and are interested in long-term partnerships. Hence, once…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Kartik Ahuja , Mihaela van der Schaar

This paper studies matching markets where institutions are matched with possibly more than one individual. The matching market contains some couples who view the pair of jobs as complements. First, we show by means of an example that a…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-07-11 Shashwat Khare , Souvik Roy , Ton Storcken

We consider the stability of matchings when individuals strategically submit preference information to a publicly known algorithm. Most pure Nash equilibria of the ensuing game yield a matching that is unstable with respect to the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-11 James P. Bailey , Craig A. Tovey

We study the problem of aggregating individual preferences over alternatives into a collective ranking. A distinctive feature of our setting is that agents are matched to alternatives. Applications include rankings of colleges or academic…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-02-11 Gaurab Aryal , Thayer Morrill , Peter Troyan