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For most people, social contacts play an integral part in finding a new job. As observed by Granovetter's seminal study, the proportion of jobs obtained through social contacts is usually large compared to those obtained through postings or…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-07 Esteban Arcaute , Sergei Vassilvitskii

To guarantee all agents are matched in general, the classic Deferred Acceptance algorithm needs complete preference lists. In practice, preference lists are short, yet stable matching still works well. This raises two questions: $\bullet$…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Ishan Agarwal , Richard Cole

We consider design of monetary mechanisms for two-sided matching. Mechanisms in the tradition of the deferred acceptance algorithm, even in variants incorporating money, tend to focus on the criterion of stability. Instead, in this work we…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Robin Bowers , Bo Waggoner

We study the problem of an organization that matches agents to objects where agents have preference rankings over objects and the organization uses algorithms to construct a ranking over objects on behalf of each agent. Our new framework…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-08-12 Terence Highsmith

We study a practical centralized matching problem which assigns children to daycare centers. The collective preferences of siblings from the same family introduce complementarities, which can lead to the absence of stable matchings, as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Zhaohong Sun , Tomohiko Yokoyama , Makoto Yokoo

This paper proposes a model to explain the potential role of inter-group conflicts in determining the rise and fall of signaling norms. Individuals in a population are characterized by high and low productivity types and they are matched in…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2023-08-08 Ethan Holdahl , Jiabin Wu

Roommate problems with convex preferences always have stable matchings. Efficiency and individual rationality are, moreover, compatible with strategyproofness in such convex roommate problems. Both of these results fail without the…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-04-01 Sophie Bade

How does competition in markets for information affect the creation and division of surplus? We study this question in a search environment in which an agent searches sequentially for a high-quality good and learns about the quality of…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-05-26 Teddy Mekonnen , Bobak Pakzad-Hurson

This paper studies a house allocation problem in a networked housing market, where agents can invite others to join the system in order to enrich their options. Top Trading Cycle is a well-known matching mechanism that achieves a set of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Youjia Zhang , Pingzhong Tang

In human conversation an input post is open to multiple potential responses, which is typically regarded as a one-to-many problem. Promising approaches mainly incorporate multiple latent mechanisms to build the one-to-many relationship.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Chaotao Chen , Jinhua Peng , Fan Wang , Jun Xu , Hua Wu

Matching platforms, from ridesharing to food delivery to competitive gaming, face a fundamental operational dilemma: match agents immediately to minimize waiting costs, or delay to exploit the efficiency gains of thicker markets. Yet…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Jie Liu , Hailun Zhang , Jiheng Zhang

Consider an actor making selection decisions using a series of classifiers, which we term a sequential screening process. The early stages filter out some applicants, and in the final stage an expensive but accurate test is applied to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Avrim Blum , Kevin Stangl , Ali Vakilian

Mechanism design has traditionally assumed that the set of participants are fixed and known to the mechanism (the market owner) in advance. However, in practice, the market owner can only directly reach a small number of participants (her…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Dengji Zhao

Multiple choice benchmarks have long been the workhorse of language model evaluation because grading multiple choice is objective and easy to automate. However, we show multiple choice questions from popular benchmarks can often be answered…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Nikhil Chandak , Shashwat Goel , Ameya Prabhu , Moritz Hardt , Jonas Geiping

In this paper, we study a matching market model on a bipartite network where agents on each side arrive and depart stochastically by a Poisson process. For such a dynamic model, we design a mechanism that decides not only which agents to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Naonori Kakimura , Donghao Zhu

Peer prediction mechanisms incentivize agents to truthfully report their signals even in the absence of verification by comparing agents' reports with those of their peers. In the detail-free multi-task setting, agents respond to multiple…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Grant Schoenebeck , Fang-Yi Yu

Existing language model benchmarks provide contradictory model rankings, even for benchmarks that aim to capture similar skills. This dilemma of conflicting rankings hampers model selection, clouds model comparisons, and adds confusion to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Guanhua Zhang , Ricardo Dominguez-Olmedo , Moritz Hardt

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

We consider a market in which both suppliers and consumers compete for a product via scalar-parameterized supply offers and demand bids. Scalar-parameterized offers/bids are appealing due to their modeling simplicity and desirable…

General Economics · Economics 2020-03-04 Mariola Ndrio , Khaled Alshehri , Subhonmesh Bose

Algorithmic monoculture arises when many decision-makers rely on the same algorithm to evaluate applicants. An emerging body of work investigates possible harms of this kind of homogeneity, but has been limited by the challenge of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Kenny Peng , Nikhil Garg