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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 marriage (SM) problem has a wide variety of practical applications, ranging from matching resident doctors to hospitals, to matching students to schools, or more generally to any two-sided market. In the classical formulation, n…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-07-07 M. Gelain , M. S. Pini , F. Rossi , K. B. Venable , T. Walsh

The stable marriage problem requires one to find a marriage with no blocking pair. Given a matching that is not stable, Roth and Vande Vate have shown that there exists a sequence of matchings that leads to a stable matching in which each…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Vijay Kumar Garg , Changyong Hu

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

The Stable Marriage Problem (SMP) has been extremely discussed in the literature and it is useful to a number of real-world applications. We propose a generalized version of the SMP in which numbers of the matching groups are different as…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Bernardo Alves Furtado

The stable marriage problem has a wide variety of practical applications, ranging from matching resident doctors to hospitals, to matching students to schools, or more generally to any two-sided market. We consider a useful variation of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-07-06 Mirco Gelain , Maria Silvia Pini , Francesca RossI , Kristen Brent Venable , Toby Walsh

Consider a cyclically ordered collection of $r$ equinumerous agent sets with strict preferences of every agent over the agents from the next agent set. A weakly stable cyclic matching is a partition of the set of agents into disjoint union…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-19 Boris Pittel

The Balanced Stable Marriage problem is a central optimization version of the classic Stable Marriage problem. Here, the output cannot be an arbitrary stable matching, but one that balances between the dissatisfaction of the two parties,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Sushmita Gupta , Sanjukta Roy , Saket Saurabh , Meirav Zehavi

In human society, a lot of social phenomena can be concluded into a mathematical problem called the bipartite matching, one of the most well known model is the marriage problem proposed by Gale and Shapley. In this article, we try to find…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-02-10 Gui-Yuan Shi , Yi-Xiu Kong , Hao Liao , Yi-Cheng Zhang

We study stable matchings that are robust to preference changes in the two-sided stable matching setting of Gale and Shapley[GS62]. Given two instances $A$ and $B$ on the same set of agents, a matching is said to be robust if it is stable…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Rohith Reddy Gangam , Tung Mai , Nitya Raju , Vijay V. Vazirani

Focusing on the bipartite Stable Marriage problem, we investigate different robustness measures related to stable matchings. We analyze the computational complexity of computing them and analyze their behavior in extensive experiments on…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Kimon Boehmer , Niclas Boehmer

We improve the upper bound for the maximum possible number of stable matchings among $n$ jobs and $n$ applicants from $131072^n+O(1)$ to $3.55^n+O(1)$. To establish this bound, we state a novel formulation of a certain entropy bound that is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-07 Cory Palmer , Dömötör Pálvölgyi

In this paper, we consider permutation manipulations by any subset of women in the men-proposing version of the Gale-Shapley algorithm. This paper is motivated by the college admissions process in China. Our results also answer an open…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Weiran Shen , Yuan Deng , Pingzhong Tang

We propose a generalization of the classical stable marriage problem. In our model, the preferences on one side of the partition are given in terms of arbitrary binary relations, which need not be transitive nor acyclic. This generalization…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-28 Linda Farczadi , Konstantinos Georgiou , Jochen Könemann

We initiate the study of distortion in stable matching. Concretely, we aim to design algorithms that have limited access to the agents' cardinal preferences and compute stable matchings of high quality with respect to some aggregate…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Aris Filos-Ratsikas , Georgios Kalantzis

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

In this paper we show that when individuals in a bipartite network exclusively choose partners and exchange valued goods with their partners, then there exists a set of exchanges that are pair-wise stable. Pair-wise stability implies that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2010-11-12 Ankur Mani , Asuman Ozdaglar , Alex , Pentland

The set of stable matchings induces a distributive lattice. The supremum of the stable matching lattice is the boy-optimal (girl-pessimal) stable matching and the infimum is the girl-optimal (boy-pessimal) stable matching. The classical…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-13 Ndiame Ndiaye , Sergey Norin , Adrian Vetta

We use algorithmic methods from online learning to explore some important objects at the intersection of model theory and combinatorics, and find natural ways that algorithmic methods can detect and explain (and improve our understanding…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Maryanthe Malliaris , Shay Moran

We study the classical, two-sided stable marriage problem under pairwise preferences. In the most general setting, agents are allowed to express their preferences as comparisons of any two of their edges and they also have the right to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Ágnes Cseh , Attila Juhos