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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

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

In the Stable Marriage Problem two sets of agents must be paired according to mutual preferences, which may happen to conflict. We present two generalizations of its sex-oriented version, aiming to take into account correlations between the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Caldarelli , Andrea Capocci , Paolo Laureti

The classical Stable Roommates problem is to decide whether there exists a matching of an even number of agents such that no two agents which are not matched to each other would prefer to be with each other rather than with their…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Robert Bredereck , Jiehua Chen , Ugo Paavo Finnendahl , Rolf Niedermeier

Let $p_n$ denote the probability that a random instance of the stable roommates problem of size $n$ admits a solution. We derive an explicit formula for $p_n$ and compute exact values of $p_n$ for $n\leq 12$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-12-09 Stephan Mertens

We study the notion of robustness in stable matching problems. We first define robustness by introducing (a,b)-supermatches. An $(a,b)$-supermatch is a stable matching in which if $a$ pairs break up it is possible to find another stable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-10-30 Begum Genc , Mohamed Siala , Barry O'Sullivan , Gilles Simonin

The stable allocation problem is a many-to-many generalization of the well-known stable marriage problem, where we seek a bipartite assignment between, say, jobs (of varying sizes) and machines (of varying capacities) that is "stable" based…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-26 Ágnes Cseh , Brian C. Dean

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 stable marriage problem N men and N women have to be matched by pairs under the constraint that the resulting matching is stable. We study the statistical properties of stable matchings in the large N limit using both numerical and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Michael Dzierzawa , Marie-Jose Omero

We study the problem of finding "fair" stable matchings in the Stable Marriage problem with Incomplete lists (SMI). In particular, we seek stable matchings that are optimal with respect to profile, which is a vector that indicates the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Frances Cooper , David Manlove

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

We show that the ratio of matched individuals to blocking pairs grows linearly with the number of propose--accept rounds executed by the Gale--Shapley algorithm for the stable marriage problem. Consequently, the participants can arrive at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-05-15 Patrik Floréen , Petteri Kaski , Valentin Polishchuk , Jukka Suomela

We study a natural generalization of stable matching to the maximum weight stable matching problem and we obtain a combinatorial polynomial time algorithm for it by reducing it to the problem of finding a maximum weight ideal cut in a DAG.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Tung Mai , Vijay V. Vazirani

In this article we study the stable marriage game induced by the men-proposing Gale-Shapley algorithm. Our setting is standard: all the lists are complete and the matching mechanism is the men-proposing Gale-Shapley algorithm. It is well…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-16 Sushmita Gupta , Kazuo Iwama , Shuichi Miyazaki

We study the classical, two-sided stable marriage problem under pairwise preferences. In the most general setting, agents are allowed to express their preferences as comparisons of any two of their edges and they also have the right to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Ágnes Cseh , Attila Juhos

We consider two variants of the classical Stable Roommates problem with Incomplete (but strictly ordered) preference lists SRI that are degree constrained, i.e., preference lists are of bounded length. The first variant, EGAL d-SRI,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-09-01 Ágnes Cseh , Robert W. Irving , David F. Manlove

In the roommate matching model, given a set of 2n agents and n rooms, we find an assignment of a pair of agents to a room. Although the roommate matching problem is well studied, the study of the model when agents have preference over both…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Jing Leng , Sanjukta Roy

Following up a recent work by Ashlagi, Kanoria and Leshno, we study a stable matching problem with unequal numbers of men and women, and independent uniform preferences. The asymptotic formulas for the expected number of stable matchings,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-14 Boris Pittel

In the well-studied Stable Roommates problem, we seek a stable matching of agents into pairs, where no two agents prefer each other over their assigned partners. However, some instances of this problem are unsolvable, lacking any stable…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Frederik Glitzner , David Manlove

Stable matching is a fundamental problem studied both in economics and computer science. The task is to find a matching between two sides of agents that have preferences over who they want to be matched with. A matching is stable if no pair…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Juho Hirvonen , Sara Ranjbaran