• BS, Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011
• BS, Discrete Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011
• Ph.D., Theoretical Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, 2016

Journal Articles

Antonio Blanca and Reza Gheissari, 2023, "Sampling from Potts on random graphs of unbounded degree via random-cluster dynamics", Annals of Applied Probability, 33, (6B)

Antonio Blanca, Sarah Cannon and Will Perkins, 2023, "Fast and perfect sampling of subgraphs and polymer systems", ACM Transactions on Algorithms, 20, (1)

Antonio Blanca, Zongchen Chen and Daniel Stefankovic, 2022, "The Swendsen-Wang dynamics on trees", Random Structures & Algorithms, 62, (4), pp. 791-831

Antonio Blanca, Pietro Caputo, Zongchen Chen, Daniel Parisi, Daniel Stefankovic and Eric Vigoda, 2022, "On mixing of Markov chains: coupling, spectral independence, and entropy factorization", Electronic Journal of Probability, 27, (142), pp. 1-42

Antonio Blanca, Pietro Caputo, Daniel Parisi, Alistair Sinclair and Vigoda, 2022, "Entropy decay in the Swendsen–Wang dynamics on Z^d", Annals of Applied Probability, 32, (2), pp. 1018-1057

Antonio Blanca, Alistair Sinclair and Xusheng Zhang, 2022, "The critical mean-field Chayes-Machta dynamics", Combinatorics, Probability and Computing, pp. 1-52

Antonio Blanca, Zongchen Chen, Daniel Stefankovic and Eric Vigoda, 2021, "Hardness of identity testing for restricted Boltzmann machines and Potts models", Journal of Machine Learning Research, 22, (152), pp. 1-56

Antonio Blanca and Reza Gheissari, 2021, "Random-cluster dynamics on random regular graphs in tree uniqueness", Communications in Mathematical Physics, 386, (2), pp. 1243-1287

Antonio Blanca, Zongchen Chen, Daniel Stefankovic and Eric Vigoda, 2020, "Structure learning of H-colorings", ACM Transactions on Algorithms, 16, (3), pp. 1-28

Antonio Blanca, Andreas Galanis, Leslie Ann Goldberg, Daniel Stefankovic, Eric Vigoda and Kuan Yang, 2020, "Sampling in uniqueness from the Potts and random-cluster models on random regular graphs", SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 34, (1), pp. 742-793

Ivona Bezakova, Antonio Blanca, Zongchen Chen, Daniel Stefankovic and Eric Vigoda, 2020, "Lower bounds for testing graphical models: colorings and antiferromagnetic Ising models", Journal of Machine Learning Reasearch, 21, (25), pp. 1-62

Antonio Blanca, Reza Gheissari and Eric Vigoda, 2020, "Random-cluster dynamics in Z^2: rapid mixing with general boundary conditions", Annals of Applied Probability, 30, (1), pp. 418-459

Antonio Blanca, Zongchen Chen and Eric Vigoda, 2020, "Swendsen-Wang dynamics for general graphs in the tree uniqueness region", Random Structures & Algorithms, 56, (2), pp. 373-400

Antonio Blanca, Yuxuan Chen, David Galvin, Dana Randall and Prasad Tetali, 2018, "Phase coexistence for the hard-core model on Z^2", Combinatorics, Probability and Computing, 28, (1), pp. 1-22

Antonio Blanca, Pietro Caputo, Alistair Sinclair and Eric Vigoda, 2018, "Spatial mixing and non-local Markov chains", Random Structures & Algorithms, 55, (3), pp. 584-614

Antonio Blanca and Alistair Sinclair, 2017, "Random-cluster dynamics in Z^2", Probability Theory and Related Fields, 168, (3-4), pp. 821-847

Antonio Blanca and Anant Godbole, 2011, "On Universal cycles for new classes of combinatorial structures", SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 25, (4), pp. 1832-1842

Antonio Blanca, Robert S Harris, David Koslicki and Paul Medvedev, , "The statistics of k-mers from a sequence undergoing a simple mutation process without spurious matches", Journal of Computational Biology, 29, (2), pp. 55-168

Conference Proceedings

Antonio Blanca and Xusheng Zhang, 2023, "Rapid mixing of global Markov chains via spectral independence: the unbounded degree case"

Antonio Blanca, 2015, "Dynamics for the mean-field random-cluster model", 40, pp. 528-543

Antonio Blanca, David Galvin, Dana Randall and Prasad Tetali, , "Phase coexistence and slow mixing for the hard-core model on Z^2", 8096, pp. 379-394

Antonio Blanca and Alistair Sinclair, , "Random-cluster dynamics in Z^2", pp. 498–513

Antonio Blanca, Reza Gheissari and Eric Vigoda, , "Random-cluster dynamics in Z^2: rapid mixing with general boundary conditions", 145, pp. 67:1-67:19

Ivona Bezakova, Antonio Blanca, Zongchen Chen, Daniel Stefankovic and Eric Vigoda, , "Lower bounds for testing graphical models: colorings and antiferromagnetic Ising models", 99, pp. 283-298

Antonio Blanca, Zongchen Chen, Daniel Stefankovic and Eric Vigoda, , "Structure learning of H-colorings", 83, pp. 152-185

Antonio Blanca, Zongchen Chen and Eric Vigoda, , "Swendsen-Wang dynamics for general graphs in the tree uniqueness region", 32, pp. 1-18

Antonio Blanca, Andreas Galanis, Leslie Ann Goldberg, Daniel Stefankovic, Eric Vigoda and Kuan Yang, , "Sampling in uniqueness from the Potts and random-cluster models on random regular graphs", 33, pp. 1-15

Antonio Blanca, Pietro Caputo, Alistair Sinclair and Eric Vigoda, , "Spatial mixing and non-local Markov chains", pp. 1965-1980

Antonio Blanca, Zongchen Chen, Daniel Stefankovic and Eric Vigoda, , "Hardness of identity testing for restricted Boltzmann machines and Potts models", 125, pp. 514-529

Antonio Blanca, Robert Harris, David Koslicki and Paul Medvedev, , "The statistics of k-mers from a sequence undergoing a simple mutation process without spurious matches"

Antonio Blanca, Zongchen Chen, Daniel Stefankovic and Eric Vigoda, , "The Swendsen-Wang dynamics on trees", 207, pp. 43:1-43:15

Antonio Blanca, Alistair Sinclair and Xusheng Zhang, , "The critical mean-field Chayes-Machta dynamics", 207, pp. 47:1-47:15

Antonio Blanca, Pietro Caputo, Daniel Parisi, Alistair Sinclair and Eric Vigoda, , "Entropy decay in the Swendsen-Wang dynamics on Z^d"

Antonio Blanca, Pietro Caputo, Zongchen Chen, Daniel Parisi, Daniel Stefankovic and Eric Vigoda, , "On mixing of Markov chains: coupling, spectral independence, and entropy factorization", pp. 3670-3692

Antonio Blanca and Gheissari, , "Sampling from Potts on random graphs of unbounded degree via random-cluster dynamics", 245, pp. 24:1-24:15

Antonio Blanca, Sarah Cannon and Will Perkins, , "Fast and perfect sampling of subgraphs and polymer systems", 245, pp. 4:1-4:18

Mahdi Belbasi, Antonio Blanca, Robert Harris, Da Koslicki and Paul Medvedev, , "The minimizer Jaccard estimator is biased and inconsistent", 38, pp. i169-i176

Antonio Blanca and Reza Gheissari, , "On the tractability of sampling from the Potts model at low temperatures via Swendsen-Wang dynamics"

Antonio Blanca, Zongchen Chen, Daniel Stefankovic and Eric Vigoda, , "Complexity of high-dimensional identity testing with coordinate conditional sampling", 195, pp. 1774-1790

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