Dice Question Streamline Icon: https://streamlinehq.com

Extend two-provider multi-period bounds to m providers

Establish whether, under aggregate workload constraints, the two-provider O(1)-per-evaluation-period excess-infeasibility bound of Cheapest‑Feasible Matching relative to Greedy‑Shortest Matching extends to m providers in the multi-period setting.

Information Square Streamline Icon: https://streamlinehq.com

Background

In the multi-period analysis with two providers, the paper shows that the excess number of infeasible matches incurred by Cheapest‑Feasible Matching (CFM) relative to Greedy‑Shortest Matching (GSM) is at most one per evaluation hyper-period, yielding an O(1) bound.

The authors explicitly pose as an open question whether this O(1) per-period bound scales to m providers when aggregate workload constraints apply.

References

In the case of multi-period multi-providers, we leave as an open question whether, under aggregate workload constraints, the two-provider $O(1)$ -per-evaluation-period bound between CFM and GSM lifts to $m$ providers, to start, we provide a generalized lemma on a constrained adversary's optimal strategy against CFM and GSM.

Automated Market Making for Goods with Perishable Utility (2511.16357 - Zang et al., 20 Nov 2025) in Section 6, Regret Analysis (closing paragraph)