# Algorithm - 10-20 unnanncounced quizes - Exams on paper - 4- 5 assignments cpp or free to choose - slides: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~wayne/kleinberg-tardos/ - book: https://github.com/davie890/CS102-Algorithm-Analysis/raw/master/Algorithm%20Design%20by%20Jon%20Kleinberg%2C%20Eva%20Tardos.pdf ------ ### You dint start untill u know there is a soluttion ### this course is about explaining and understanding and even thinking of proof of algorithms not making new algorithms ## Stable matching Problem if random matching, ignoring preferance we make unstable pair preferance over the other one not 1st preferance a perfect matching is when there are no unstable pair matchinhgs is a set of a pair an empty set is also a matching Do stable matchings always exisit? ### self reinforcing method - Gale-Shapely deferred acceptance While each hospital hasnt offered to their preferance list (decreasing preferance list) pick a hospital offer to first preffered student not offered to yet if the student is somewhere, extend offer, if the student likes this more he will switch else the student rejects (in each of these a hospital now is unmatched and will be reconsidered) (students accept in increasing preferance) Return a stable matching matching: -no hospital is repeated since proposes if unmatched student only accepts so only keeps one all hospitals get matched: -contradiction there is a hospital unmatched -since student accepts and only trades up and the algorithm doesnt end until hospital doesnt offer all students, all hospitals get matched \[counting] all n hospitals hence all h students matched haence it is a **perfect match**