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The stable marriage problem is a well-known problem of matching men to women so that no man and woman, who are not married to each other, both prefer each other. Such a problem has a wide variety of practical applications, ranging from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-11-25 Maria Silvia Pini , Francesca Rossi , Brent Venable , Toby Walsh

Super-stability is one of the stability concepts in the stable matching problem with ties. It is known that there may not exist a super-stable matching, and the existence of a super-stable matching can be checked in polynomial time. In this…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Naoyuki Kamiyama

In the celebrated stable-matching problem, there are two sets of agents M and W, and the members of M only have preferences over the members of W and vice versa. It is usually assumed that each member of M and W is a single entity. However,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Leora Schmerler , Noam Hazon , Sarit Kraus

We consider a variant of socially stable marriage problem where preference lists may be incomplete, may contain ties and may have bounded length. In real world application like NRMP and Scottish medical matching scheme such restrictions…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-07-25 Ashish Shrivastava , C. Pandu Rangan

Strategy-proof mechanisms are widely used in market design. In an abstract allocation framework where outside options are available to agents, we obtain two results for strategy-proof mechanisms. They provide a unified foundation for…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2021-01-05 Jun Zhang

In a two-sided matching market when agents on both sides have preferences the stability of the solution is typically the most important requirement. However, we may also face some distributional constraints with regard to the minimum number…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Kolos Csaba Ágoston , Péter Biró , Richárd Szántó

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

Stable marriage of a two-sided market with unit demand is a classic problem that arises in many real-world scenarios. In addition, a unique stable marriage in this market simplifies a host of downstream desiderata. In this paper, we explore…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Kartik Gokhale , Amit Kumar Mallik , Ankit Kumar Misra , Swaprava Nath

We study the problem of pure exploration in matching markets under uncertain preferences, where the goal is to identify a stable matching with confidence parameter $\delta$ and minimal sample complexity. Agents learn preferences via…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Tejas Pagare , Agniv Bandyopadhyay , Sandeep Juneja

Large-scale, two-sided matching platforms must find market outcomes that align with user preferences while simultaneously learning these preferences from data. Classical notions of stability (Gale and Shapley, 1962; Shapley and Shubik,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Meena Jagadeesan , Alexander Wei , Yixin Wang , Michael I. Jordan , Jacob Steinhardt

It is well known that a stable matching in a many-to-one matching market with couples need not exist. We introduce a new matching algorithm for such markets and show that for a general class of large random markets the algorithm will find a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Itai Ashlagi , Mark Braverman , Avinatan Hassidim

In this paper, we investigate stable matching in structured networks. Consider case of matching in social networks where candidates are not fully connected. A candidate on one side of the market gets acquaintance with which one on the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-27 Ying Ling , Tao Wan , Zengchang Qin

We study fairness in social choice settings under single-peaked preferences. Construction and characterization of social choice rules in the single-peaked domain has been extensively studied in prior works. In fact, in the single-peaked…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Gogulapati Sreedurga , Soumyarup Sadhukhan , Souvik Roy , Yadati Narahari

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 focus on the one-to-one two-sided matching model with two disjoint sets of agents of equal size, where each agent in a set has preferences on the agents in the other set modeled by a linear order. A matching mechanism associates a set of…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-11-27 Daniela Bubboloni , Michele Gori , Claudia Meo

Consider the object allocation (one-sided matching) model of Shapley and Scarf (1974). When final allocations are observed but agents' preferences are unknown, when might the allocation be in the core? This is a one-sided analogue of the…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2023-08-08 Andrew Tai

In a multiple partners matching problem the agents can have multiple partners up to their capacities. In this paper we consider both the two-sided many-to-many stable matching problem and the one-sided stable fixtures problem under…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Péter Biró , Gergely Csáji

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 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

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