arXiv:2411.03270cs.GTcs.LG2024-11NeurIPS被引 4

解决带并列偏好的匹配市场难题,提升工人收益稳定性。

Stable Matching with Ties: Approximation Ratios and Learning

  • 提出最优稳定份额比衡量匹配效率
  • 算法实现对数级近似比,优于线性损失
  • 适用于偏好不确定或需在线学习的场景

我们研究存在并列偏好的匹配市场,其中一方(如工人)对另一方(如工作)的偏好可能存在并列,由匹配效用决定。与传统严格偏好市场不同,不存在所有工人都能实现效用最大化的稳定匹配。为此,我们引入“最优稳定份额”(OSS)比率,衡量任意稳定匹配中工人可达到的最大效用与其实际效用之比。我们证明,仅依赖稳定匹配分布会导致线性效用损失,即O(N)的OSS比率,其中N为工人数量。为克服此问题,我们设计了一种高效算法,计算可能非稳定的匹配分布,实现渐近紧致的O(log N) OSS比率。当精确效用未知时,第二个算法在有限不稳定性下保证工人获得其最优效用的对数近似。最后,我们将离线近似结果扩展至带贝尔特学习设置,仅可观测已匹配对的效用。在此设定中,我们定义工人最优稳定后悔,并设计一种自适应算法,平滑过渡于严格偏好与统计并列偏好市场之间,同时建立下界,揭示两类偏好制度间的根本权衡。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

We study matching markets with ties, where workers on one side of the market may have tied preferences over jobs, determined by their matching utilities. Unlike classical two-sided markets with strict preferences, no single stable matching exists that is utility-maximizing for all workers. To address this challenge, we introduce the \emph{Optimal Stable Share} (OSS)-ratio, which measures the ratio of a worker's maximum achievable utility in any stable matching to their utility in a given matching. We prove that distributions over only stable matchings can incur linear utility losses, i.e., an $Ω(N)$ OSS-ratio, where $N$ is the number of workers. To overcome this, we design an algorithm that efficiently computes a distribution over (possibly non-stable) matchings, achieving an asymptotically tight $O (\log N)$ OSS-ratio. When exact utilities are unknown, our second algorithm guarantees workers a logarithmic approximation of their optimal utility under bounded instability. Finally, we extend our offline approximation results to a bandit learning setting where utilities are only observed for matched pairs. In this setting, we consider worker-optimal stable regret, design an adaptive algorithm that smoothly interpolates between markets with strict preferences and those with statistical ties, and establish a lower bound revealing the fundamental trade-off between strict and tied preference regimes.

匹配市场并列偏好近似算法在线学习

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