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Let $G = (A \cup B, E)$ be an instance of the stable marriage problem with strict preference lists. A matching $M$ is popular in $G$ if $M$ does not lose a head-to-head election against any matching where vertices are voters. Every stable…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Agnes Cseh , Yuri Faenza , Telikepalli Kavitha , Vladlena Powers

This paper studies two-sided many-to-one matching in which firms have complementary preferences. We show that stable matchings exist under a balancedness condition that rules out a specific type of odd-length cycles formed by firms'…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-05-17 Chao Huang

We consider the stable assignment problem on a graph with nonnegative real capacities on the edges and quotas on the vertices, in which the preferences of agents are given via diversifying choice functions. We prove that for any input of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-29 Alexander V. Karzanov

We study a matching problem between agents and public goods, in settings without monetary transfers. Since goods are public, they have no capacity constraints. There is no exogenously defined budget of goods to be provided. Rather, each…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Sara Fish , Yannai A. Gonczarowski , Sergiu Hart

A super-stable matching, which was introduced by Irving, is a solution concept in a variant of the stable matching problem in which the preferences may contain ties. Irving proposed a polynomial-time algorithm for the problem of finding a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Naoyuki Kamiyama

The study of stable matchings usually relies on the assumption that agents' preferences over the opposite side are complete and known. In many real markets, however, preferences might be uncertain and revealed only through costly…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Moshe Babaioff , Rotem Gil , Assaf Romm

In this paper, we study the fundamental problem of finding a stable matching in two-sided matching markets. In the classic variant, it is assumed that both sides of the market submit a ranked list of all agents on the other side. However,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Samuel McCauley , Benjamin Moseley , Helia Niaparast , Shikha Singh

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

We initiate the study of external manipulations in Stable Marriage by considering several manipulative actions as well as several manipulation goals. For instance, one goal is to make sure that a given pair of agents is matched in a stable…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Niclas Boehmer , Robert Bredereck , Klaus Heeger , Rolf Niedermeier

An instance of the super-stable matching problem with incomplete lists and ties is an undirected bipartite graph $G = (A \cup B, E)$, with an adjacency list being a linearly ordered list of ties. Ties are subsets of vertices equally good…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Changyong Hu , Vijay K. Garg

We consider the stable matching problem when the preference lists are not given explicitly but are represented in a succinct way and ask whether the problem becomes computationally easier and investigate other implications. We give…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-21 Marvin Künnemann , Daniel Moeller , Ramamohan Paturi , Stefan Schneider

While the stable marriage problem and its variants model a vast range of matching markets, they fail to capture complex agent relationships, such as the affiliation of applicants and employers in an interview marketplace. To model this…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Marina Knittel , Samuel Dooley , John P. Dickerson

The stable marriage problem and its extensions have been extensively studied, with much of the work in the literature assuming that agents fully know their own preferences over alternatives. This assumption however is not always practical…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-21 Baharak Rastegari , Paul Goldberg , David Manlove

In a stable matching setting, we consider a query model that allows for an interactive learning algorithm to make precisely one type of query: proposing a matching, the response to which is either that the proposed matching is stable, or a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Ehsan Emamjomeh-Zadeh , Yannai A. Gonczarowski , David Kempe

Colloquially, there are two groups, $n$ men and $n$ women, each man (woman) ranking women (men) as potential marriage partners. A complete matching is called stable if no unmatched pair prefer each other to their partners in the matching.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-18 Boris Pittel

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

We thoroughly study a generalized version of the classic Stable Marriage and Stable Roommates problems where agents may share partners. We consider two prominent stability concepts: ordinal stability [Aharoni and Fleiner, Journal of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Jiehua Chen , Sanjukta Roy , Manuel Sorge

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 the problem of reforming an envy-free matching when each agent is assigned a single item. Given an envy-free matching, we consider an operation to exchange the item of an agent with an unassigned item preferred by the agent that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Takehiro Ito , Yuni Iwamasa , Naonori Kakimura , Naoyuki Kamiyama , Yusuke Kobayashi , Yuta Nozaki , Yoshio Okamoto , Kenta Ozeki

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