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We study the design of a decentralized two-sided matching market in which agents' search is guided by the platform. There are finitely many agent types, each with (potentially random) preferences drawn from known type-specific…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Nicole Immorlica , Brendan Lucier , Vahideh Manshadi , Alexander Wei

We study the problem of fair $k$-committee selection under an egalitarian objective. Given $n$ agents partitioned into $m$ groups (\eg, demographic quotas), the goal is to aggregate their preferences to form a committee of size $k$ that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Ameet Gadekar , Aristides Gionis , Suhas Thejaswi , Sijing Tu

One way of evaluating social choice (voting) rules is through a utilitarian distortion framework. In this model, we assume that agents submit full rankings over the alternatives, and these rankings are generated from underlying, but…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Ashish Goel , Reyna Hulett , Anilesh K. Krishnaswamy

We study the minimum-cost metric perfect matching problem under online i.i.d arrivals. We are given a fixed metric with a server at each of the points, and then requests arrive online, each drawn independently from a known probability…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Anupam Gupta , Guru Guruganesh , Binghui Peng , David Wajc

In the online matching on the line problem, the task is to match a set of requests $R$ online to a given set of servers $S$. The distance metric between any two points in $R\,\cup\, S$ is a line metric and the objective for the online…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Antonios Antoniadis , Carsten Fischer , Andreas Tönnis

We study optimal risk sharing among $n$ agents endowed with distortion risk measures. Our model includes market frictions that can either represent linear transaction costs or risk premia charged by a clearing house for the agents. Risk…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-05-07 M. Ludkovski , V. R. Young

Given a set of $m$ agents and a set of $n$ items, where agent $A$ has utility $u_{A,i}$ for item $i$, our goal is to allocate items to agents to maximize fairness. Specifically, the utility of an agent is the sum of its utilities for items…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-01-05 Deeparnab Chakrabarty , Julia Chuzhoy , Sanjeev Khanna

We study the problem of minimizing metric distortion in multi-winner elections, where a committee of size $k$ is selected from a set of candidates based on voters' ordinal preferences. We assume that voters and candidates are embedded on a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Negar Babashah , Hasti Karimi , Masoud Seddighin , Golnoosh Shahkarami

Consider a set of items and a set of $m$ colors, where each item is associated to one color. Consider also $n$ computational agents connected by a ring. Each agent holds a subset of the items and items of the same color can be held by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-10 Gianluca De Marco , Mauro Leoncini , Manuela Montangero

We consider the problem of matching a metric space $(X,d_X)$ of size $k$ with a subspace of a metric space $(Y,d_Y)$ of size $n \geq k$, assuming that these two spaces have constant doubling dimension $\delta$. More precisely, given an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Corentin Allair , Antoine Vigneron

In the online metric matching problem, $n$ servers and $n$ requests lie in a metric space. Servers are available upfront, and requests arrive sequentially. An arriving request must be matched immediately and irrevocably to an available…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Yingxi Li , Ellen Vitercik , Mingwei Yang

We study adaptive two-sided assortment optimization for revenue maximization in choice-based matching platforms. The platform has two sides of agents, an initiating side, and a responding side. The decision-maker sequentially selects agents…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Mohammadreza Ahmadnejadsaein , Omar El Housni

We consider ordinal approximation algorithms for a broad class of utility maximization problems for multi-agent systems. In these problems, agents have utilities for connecting to each other, and the goal is to compute a maximum-utility…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Ben Abramowitz , Elliot Anshelevich

Matching algorithms have demonstrated great success in several practical applications, but they often require centralized coordination and plentiful information. In many modern online marketplaces, agents must independently seek out and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Vade Shah , Bryce L. Ferguson , Jason R. Marden

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

Finding an optimal assignment between two sets of objects is a fundamental problem arising in many applications, including the matching of `bag-of-words' representations in natural language processing and computer vision. Solving the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Nils M. Kriege , Pierre-Louis Giscard , Franka Bause , Richard C. Wilson

In this work we study the metric distortion problem in voting theory under a limited amount of ordinal information. Our primary contribution is threefold. First, we consider mechanisms which perform a sequence of pairwise comparisons…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Ioannis Anagnostides , Dimitris Fotakis , Panagiotis Patsilinakos

It is challenging to quantify numerical preferences for different objectives in a multi-objective decision-making problem. However, the demonstrations of a user are often accessible. We propose an algorithm to infer linear preference…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Junlin Lu

Strategic behavior in two-sided matching markets has been traditionally studied in a "one-sided" manipulation setting where the agent who misreports is also the intended beneficiary. Our work investigates "two-sided" manipulation of the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Hadi Hosseini , Fatima Umar , Rohit Vaish

We study the online minimum cost bipartite perfect matching with delays problem. In this problem, $m$ servers and $m$ requests arrive over time, and an online algorithm can delay the matching between servers and requests by paying the delay…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Tung-Wei Kuo