• 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, 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 (TALG), 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 (SIDMA), 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 Math, 25, (4), pp. 1832-1842

Antonio Blanca, Robert S Harris, David Koslick 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

Antonio Blanca, Zongchen Chen and Daniel Stefankovic, , "The Swendsen-Wang dynamics on trees", Random Structures & Algorithms

Conference Proceedings

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"

Antonio Blanca, Sarah Cannon and Will Perkins, , "Fast and perfect sampling of subgraphs and polymer systems"

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

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