Abstract
Our input is a bipartite graph G=(A\cup B,E) where each vertex in A\cup B has a preference list strictly ranking its neighbors. The vertices in A and in B are called students and courses, respectively. Each student a seeks to be matched to cap(a)\geq 1 many courses while each course b seeks cap(b)\geq 1 many students to be matched to it. The Gale-Shapley algorithm computes a pairwise-stable matching (one with no blocking edge) in G in linear time. We consider the problem of computing a popular matching in G - a matching M is popular if M cannot lose an election to any matching where vertices cast votes for one matching versus another. Our main contribution is to show that a max-size popular matching in G can be computed by the 2-level Gale-Shapley algorithm in linear time. This is an extension of the classical Gale-Shapley algorithm and we prove its correctness via linear programming.
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