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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

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

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 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

Since the early days of research in algorithms and complexity, the computation of stable matchings is a core topic. While in the classic setting the goal is to match up two agents (either from different "gender" (this is Stable Marriage) or…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Robert Bredereck , Klaus Heeger , Dušan Knop , Rolf Niedermeier

An important aspect in systems of multiple autonomous agents is the exploitation of synergies via coalition formation. In this paper, we solve various open problems concerning the computational complexity of stable partitions in additively…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-06 Haris Aziz , Felix Brandt , Hans Georg Seedig

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

A group of $n$ agents with numerical preferences for each other are to be assigned to the $n$ seats of a dining table. We study two natural topologies:~circular (cycle) tables and panel (path) tables. For a given seating arrangement, an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Damien Berriaud , Andrei Constantinescu , Roger Wattenhofer

We study popular matchings in three classical settings: the house allocation problem, the marriage problem, and the roommates problem. In the popular matching problem, (a subset of) the vertices in a graph have preference orderings over…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Frank Connor , Louis-Roy Langevin , Ndiamé Ndiaye , Agnès Totschnig , Rohit Vasishta , Adrian Vetta

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

We study the problem of counting the number of popular matchings in a given instance. A popular matching instance consists of agents A and houses H, where each agent ranks a subset of houses according to their preferences. A matching is an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-12-13 Rupam Acharyya , Sourav Chakraborty , Nitesh Jha

In bipartite matching problems, agents on two sides of a graph want to be paired according to their preferences. The stability of a matching depends on these preferences, which in uncertain environments also reflect agents' beliefs about…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Jonathan Shaki , Jiarui Gan , Sarit Kraus

Let $G = (A \cup B,E)$ be a bipartite graph where the set $A$ consists of agents or main players and the set $B$ consists of jobs or secondary players. Every vertex has a strict ranking of its neighbors. A matching $M$ is popular if for any…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Telikepalli Kavitha

We consider popular matching problems in both bipartite and non-bipartite graphs with strict preference lists. It is known that every stable matching is a min-size popular matching. A subclass of max-size popular matchings called dominant…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Yuri Faenza , Telikepalli Kavitha , Vladlena Powers , Xingyu Zhang

The Possible-Winner problem asks, given an election where the voters' preferences over the set of candidates is partially specified, whether a distinguished candidate can become a winner. In this work, we consider the computational…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Batya Kenig

We consider the task of allocating indivisible items to agents, when the agents' preferences over the items are identical. The preferences are captured by means of a directed acyclic graph, with vertices representing items and an edge…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Nina Chiarelli , Clément Dallard , Andreas Darmann , Stefan Lendl , Martin Milanič , Peter Muršič , Ulrich Pferschy

Allocating indivisible items among a set of agents is a frequently studied discrete optimization problem. In the setting considered in this work, the agents' preferences over the items are assumed to be identical. We consider a very recent…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Nina Chiarelli , Clément Dallard , Andreas Darmann , Stefan Lendl , Martin Milanič , Peter Muršič , Ulrich Pferschy

We study the Stable Fixtures problem, a many-to-many generalisation of the classical non-bipartite Stable Roommates matching problem. Building on the foundational work of Tan on stable partitions, we extend his results to this significantly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Frederik Glitzner , David Manlove

The many-to-one stable matching problem provides the fundamental abstraction of several real-world matching markets such as school choice and hospital-resident allocation. The agents on both sides are often referred to as residents and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Federico Bobbio , Margarida Carvalho , Andrea Lodi , Alfredo Torrico

Coalition formation is concerned with the question of how to partition a set of agents into disjoint coalitions according to their preferences. Deviating from most of the previous work, we consider an online variant of the problem, where…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Martin Bullinger , René Romen