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When computing stable matchings, it is usually assumed that the preferences of the agents in the matching market are fixed. However, in many realistic scenarios, preferences change over time. Consequently, an initially stable matching may…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Niclas Boehmer , Klaus Heeger , Rolf Niedermeier

We study stable matching problems with locality of information and control. In our model, each agent is a node in a fixed network and strives to be matched to another agent. An agent has a complete preference list over all other agents it…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Martin Hoefer , Lisa Wagner

Experimental evaluation is an integral part in the design process of algorithms. Publicly available benchmark instances are widely used to evaluate methods in SAT solving. For the interpretation of results and the design of algorithm…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Markus Iser , Luca Springer , Carsten Sinz

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

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 consider the classic problem of establishing a statistical ranking of a set of n items given a set of inconsistent and incomplete pairwise comparisons between such items. Instantiations of this problem occur in numerous applications in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-04-07 Mihai Cucuringu

We introduce the problem of adapting a stable matching to forced and forbidden pairs. Specifically, given a stable matching $M_1$, a set $Q$ of forced pairs, and a set $P$ of forbidden pairs, we want to find a stable matching that includes…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Niclas Boehmer , Klaus Heeger

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

Fair classification has been a topic of intense study in machine learning, and several algorithms have been proposed towards this important task. However, in a recent study, Friedler et al. observed that fair classification algorithms may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Lingxiao Huang , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

Several countries successfully use centralized matching schemes for school or higher education assignment, or for entry-level labour markets. In this paper we explore the computational aspects of a possible similar scheme for assigning…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-01-26 Katarina Cechlarova , Tamas Fleiner , David F. Manlove , Iain McBride

We consider the problem of stable matching with dynamic preference lists. At each time step, the preference list of some player may change by swapping random adjacent members. The goal of a central agency (algorithm) is to maintain an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-29 Varun Kanade , Nikos Leonardos , Frédéric Magniez

Reinforcement learning (RL) techniques have achieved impressive performance on simulated benchmarks such as Atari100k, yet recent advances remain largely confined to simulation and show limited transfer to real-world domains. A central…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Aryan Amit Barsainyan , Jing Yu Lim , Dianbo Liu

The objective comparison of Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms is notoriously complex as outcomes and benchmarking of performances of different RL approaches are critically sensitive to environmental design, reward structures, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Sinan Ibrahim , Grégoire Ouerdane , Hadi Salloum , Henni Ouerdane , Stefan Streif , Pavel Osinenko

The past few years have seen a surge of work on fairness in allocation problems where items must be fairly divided among agents having individual preferences. In comparison, fairness in settings with preferences on both sides, that is,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Shivika Narang , Arpita Biswas , Y Narahari

This work presents a hybrid approach to solve the maximum stable set problem, using constraint and semidefinite programming. The approach consists of two steps: subproblem generation and subproblem solution. First we rank the variable…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 W. J. van Hoeve

In stable matching, one must find a matching between two sets of agents, commonly men and women, or job applicants and job positions. Each agent has a preference ordering over who they want to be matched with. Moreover a matching is said to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Andrei Constantinescu , Marc Dufay , Diana Ghinea , Roger Wattenhofer

We study a generalization of the classical stable matching problem that allows for cardinal preferences (as opposed to ordinal) and fractional matchings (as opposed to integral). After observing that, in this cardinal setting, stable…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Ioannis Caragiannis , Aris Filos-Ratsikas , Panagiotis Kanellopoulos , Rohit Vaish

We study stable matching problems where agents have multilayer preferences: There are $\ell$ layers each consisting of one preference relation for each agent. Recently, Chen et al. [EC '18] studied such problems with strict preferences,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Matthias Bentert , Niclas Boehmer , Klaus Heeger , Tomohiro Koana

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

The Stable Marriage Problem is to find a one-to-one matching for two equally sized sets of agents. Due to its widespread applications in the real world, especially the unique importance to the centralized match maker, a very large number of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-06-26 Gui-Yuan Shi , Yi-Xiu Kong , Bo-Lun Chen , Guang-Hui Yuan , Rui-Jie Wu