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Stable matching in a community consisting of men and women is a classical combinatorial problem that has been the subject of intense theoretical and empirical study since its introduction in 1962 in a seminal paper by Gale and Shapley, who…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Hugo Gimbert , Claire Mathieu , Simon Mauras

In this paper, we consider one-to-one matchings between two disjoint groups of agents. Each agent has a preference over a subset of the agents in the other group, and these preferences may contain ties. Strong stability is one of the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Naoyuki Kamiyama

Two-sided matching markets describe a large class of problems wherein participants from one side of the market must be matched to those from the other side according to their preferences. In many real-world applications (e.g. content…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Hadi Hosseini , Sanjukta Roy , Duohan Zhang

In a stable matching problem there are two groups of agents, with agents on one side having their individual preferences for agents on another side as a potential match. It is assumed silently that agents can freely and costlessly ``switch"…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Boris Pittel , Kirill Rudov

The Stable Roommates problems are characterized by the preferences of agents over other agents as roommates. A solution is a partition of the agents into pairs that are acceptable to each other (i.e., they are in the preference lists of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Müge Fidan , Esra Erdem

The classic Stable Roommates problem (which is the non-bipartite generalization of the well-known Stable Marriage problem) asks whether there is a stable matching for a given set of agents, i.e. a partitioning of the agents into disjoint…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Jiehua Chen , Danny Hermelin , Manuel Sorge , Harel Yedidsion

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

In many economic contexts, agents from a same population team up to better exploit their human capital. In such contexts (often called "roommate matching problems"), stable matchings may fail to exist even when utility is transferable. We…

General Economics · Economics 2021-02-15 Pierre-André Chiappori , Alfred Galichon , Bernard Salanié

In the Stable Roommates Problem (SR), a set of $2n$ agents rank one another in a linear order. The goal is to find a matching that is stable: one that has no pair of agents who mutually prefer each other over their assigned partners. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Christine T. Cheng , Will Rosenbaum

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

We consider a matching problem in a bipartite graph $G$ where every vertex has a capacity and a strict preference order on its neighbors. Furthermore, there is a cost function on the edge set. We assume $G$ admits a perfect matching, i.e.,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Telikepalli Kavitha , Kazuhisa Makino

The topic of stable matchings (marriages) in a bipartite graph has become widely popular, starting with the appearance of the classical work by Gale and Shapley. We give a detailed survey on selected known results in this field that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-11 Alexander V. Karzanov

The stable marriage and stable roommates problems have been extensively studied due to their high applicability in various real-world scenarios. However, it might happen that no stable solution exists, or stable solutions do not meet…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Kristóf Bérczi , Gergely Csáji , Tamás Király

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

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

The stable allocation problem is one of the broadest extensions of the well-known stable marriage problem. In an allocation problem, edges of a bipartite graph have capacities and vertices have quotas to fill. Here we investigate the case…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-07-14 Agnes Cseh , Martin Skutella

The Stable Roommates problem involves matching a set of agents into pairs based on the agents' strict ordinal preference lists. The matching must be stable, meaning that no two agents strictly prefer each other to their assigned partners. A…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Michael McKay , David Manlove

In the Hospitals/Residents (HR) problem, agents are partitioned into hospitals and residents. Each agent wishes to be matched to an agent in the other set and has a strict preference over these potential matches. A matching is stable if…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-14 Georgios Askalidis , Nicole Immorlica , Augustine Kwanashie , David F. Manlove , Emmanouil Pountourakis

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

We consider equilibrium one-on-one conversations between neighbors on a circular table, with the goal of assessing the likelihood of a (perhaps) familiar situation: sitting at a table where both of your neighbors are talking to someone…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-11-18 Kenny Peng