Probably Correct Optimal Stable Matching for Two-Sided Markets Under Uncertainty

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Hauptverfasser: Athanasopoulos, Andreas, George, Anne-Marie, Dimitrakakis, Christos
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author Athanasopoulos, Andreas
George, Anne-Marie
Dimitrakakis, Christos
author_facet Athanasopoulos, Andreas
George, Anne-Marie
Dimitrakakis, Christos
contents We consider a learning problem for the stable marriage model under unknown preferences for the left side of the market. We focus on the centralized case, where at each time step, an online platform matches the agents, and obtains a noisy evaluation reflecting their preferences. Our aim is to quickly identify the stable matching that is left-side optimal, rendering this a pure exploration problem with bandit feedback. We specifically aim to find Probably Correct Optimal Stable Matchings and present several bandit algorithms to do so. Our findings provide a foundational understanding of how to efficiently gather and utilize preference information to identify the optimal stable matching in two-sided markets under uncertainty. An experimental analysis on synthetic data complements theoretical results on sample complexities for the proposed methods.
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spellingShingle Probably Correct Optimal Stable Matching for Two-Sided Markets Under Uncertainty
Athanasopoulos, Andreas
George, Anne-Marie
Dimitrakakis, Christos
Machine Learning
We consider a learning problem for the stable marriage model under unknown preferences for the left side of the market. We focus on the centralized case, where at each time step, an online platform matches the agents, and obtains a noisy evaluation reflecting their preferences. Our aim is to quickly identify the stable matching that is left-side optimal, rendering this a pure exploration problem with bandit feedback. We specifically aim to find Probably Correct Optimal Stable Matchings and present several bandit algorithms to do so. Our findings provide a foundational understanding of how to efficiently gather and utilize preference information to identify the optimal stable matching in two-sided markets under uncertainty. An experimental analysis on synthetic data complements theoretical results on sample complexities for the proposed methods.
title Probably Correct Optimal Stable Matching for Two-Sided Markets Under Uncertainty
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.03018