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Sampling stable marriages: why spouse-swapping won't work

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Sampling stable marriages: why spouse-swapping won't work
We study the behavior of random walks along the edges of the stable marriage lattice for various restricted families of allowable preference sets. In the "k-attribute model," each man is valued in each of k attributes, and each woman's ranking of the men is determined by a linear function, representing her relative ranking of those attributes; men's rankings of the women are determined similarly. We show that sampling with a random walk on the marriage lattice can take exponential time, even when k = 2. Moreover, we show that the marriage lattices arising in the k-attribute model are more restrictive than in the general setting; previously such a restriction had only been shown for the sets of preference lists. The second model we consider is the "k-range model," where each person lies in a position in [i, i + k - 1], for some i, on every preference list of the opposite sex. When k = 1 there is a unique stable marriage. When k = 2 there already can be an ...
Nayantara Bhatnagar, Sam Greenberg, Dana Randall
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Type Conference
Year 2008
Where SODA
Authors Nayantara Bhatnagar, Sam Greenberg, Dana Randall
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