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Consider the group of $n$ men and $n$ women, each with their own preference list for a potential marriage partner. The stable marriage is a bipartite matching such that no unmatched pair (man, woman) prefer each other to their partners in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-25 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 2009-09-25 Maria Pini , Francesca Rossi , Brent Venable , Toby Walsh

The stable marriage problem with ties is a well-studied and interesting problem in game theory. We are given a set of men and a set of women. Each individual has a preference ordering on the opposite group, which can possibly contain ties.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Felix Bauckholt , Laura Sanità

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

Assume that $n = 2k$ potential roommates each have an ordered preference of the $n-1$ others. A stable matching is a perfect matching of the $n$ roommates in which no two unmatched people prefer each other to their matched partners. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Byron Chin , Marcus Michelen

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

We study the stable marriage problem from different points of view. We proposed a microscopic dynamic that lead the system to a stationary state that we are able to characterize analytically. Then, we derive a thermodynamical description of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-11 Alejandro Lage-Castellanos , Roberto Mulet

Following up on purely theoretical work of Bredereck et al. [AAAI 2020], we contribute further theoretical insights into adapting stable two-sided matchings to change. Moreover, we perform extensive empirical studies hinting at numerous…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Niclas Boehmer , Klaus Heeger , Rolf Niedermeier

Research regarding the stable marriage and roommate problem has a long and distinguished history in mathematics, computer science and economics. Stability in this context is predominantly core stability or one of its variants in which each…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-17 Haris Aziz

In the theory of two-sided matching markets there are two well-known models: the marriage model (where no money is involved) and the assignment model (where payments are involved). Roth and Sotomayor (1990) asked for an explanation for the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Kimmo Eriksson , Johan Karlander

We consider the two-sided stable matching setting in which there may be uncertainty about the agents' preferences due to limited information or communication. We consider three models of uncertainty: (1) lottery model --- in which for each…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Haris Aziz , Péter Biró , Serge Gaspers , Ronald de Haan , Nicholas Mattei , Baharak Rastegari

Suppose each of $n$ men and $n$ women is located at a point in a metric space. A woman ranks the men in order of their distance to her from closest to farthest, breaking ties at random. The men rank the women similarly. An interesting…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Hossein Karkeh Abadi , Balaji Prabhakar

In this paper we consider stable matchings subject to assignment constraints. These are matchings that require certain assigned pairs to be included, insist that some other assigned pairs are not, and, importantly, are stable. Our main…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-06-14 Gregory Gutin , Philip R. Neary , Anders Yeo

For a many-to-one matching model, we study the matchings obtained through the restabilization of stable matchings that had been disrupted by a change in the population. We include a simple representation of the stable matching obtained in…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-02-28 Millán Guerra Beatriz Alejandra

Given a set of $n$ men represented by $n$ points lying on a line, and $n$ women represented by $n$ points lying on another parallel line, with each person having a list that ranks some people of opposite gender as his/her acceptable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Suthee Ruangwises , Toshiya Itoh

Consider a one-to-one two-sided matching market with workers on one side and single-position firms on the other, and suppose that the largest individually rational matching contains $n$ pairs. We show that the number of workers employed and…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-06-02 Gregory Z. Gutin , Philip R. Neary , Anders Yeo

We study the stable marriage problem in the partial information setting where the agents, although they have an underlying true strict linear order, are allowed to specify partial orders. Specifically, we focus on the case where the agents…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Vijay Menon , Kate Larson

Robust Stable Marriage (RSM) is a variant of the classical Stable Marriage problem, where the robustness of a given stable matching is measured by the number of modifications required for repairing it in case an unforeseen event occurs. We…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Begum Genc , Mohamed Siala , Gilles Simonin , Barry O'Sullivan

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

This paper develops a method to use singles' data in a non-parametric revealed preference setting of collective household choice. We use it to test the controversial assumption of preference stability between singles and couples, without…

Econometrics · Economics 2026-05-07 Stefan Hubner