Akshat Gupta

I am a fourth-year PhD Candidate at UC Berkeley, advised by Gopala Anumanchipalli, affiliated with BAIR and Berkeley Speech Group. I'm also a Research Scientist Intern at Meta Superintelligence Labs. The main focus of my research is Continual Learning.


Research Goal: "To make parameter modification a normal part of model use."


Some of my representative ideas and works can be found below:


As an AI researcher, I'm tired of the model weights being frozen during use. However, changing weights during use will introduce new types of safety and security concerns. The problem of continual learning therefore must be solved in a very careful and wholistic manner.

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Experience
Meta Superintelligence Labs Research Scientist Intern October 2026 – Present
Continual learning
Google Student Researcher Apr 2026 – Aug 2026
Automated discovery, multi-agent systems
IBM Research Research Scientist Intern May 2025 – Aug 2025
Latent reasoning
JPMorgan Chase Senior Associate, AI Research Jun 2021 – Aug 2023
Relation extraction, knowledge graphs

Blogs

  • I wrote a blog on how we're slowly getting ready for continual learning agents - From Thinking Models to Learning Agents.

  • I recently wrote a blog about looking at Humans from the lens of AI, called "Un-Anthropomorphizing Humans".
    • The blog contains some of my thoughts on continual learning and the future of AI and humans. I'd love to hear thoughts about it!

  • I reviewed one of the AI generated papers by Sakana AI. If you're interest, here's the link.


News



Some of my other interests I've spent a lot of my natural compute on:
  • Pickleball: I'm slowly becoming a regular in the East Bay pickleball scene. Happy to introduce people to the game and spots to play at. Goal for end of 2026 is to reach 4.5 level.
  • Poker: Spent a lot of time studying poker, not as much playing. Wish I could play more often!
  • Badminton: Played competitively in my undergraduate years. Some of my fondest memories are of competing in InterIIT Sports Meets.
  • Guitar: Picked up the guitar early in my school days. Still play occasionally.
  • Cricket: Represented my middle school team. Haven't played it properly in many years, yet somehow the only sport I watch.