I am currently a Pre-Doctoral Researcher at Google DeepMind India. I am a part of the Machine Learning & Optimization (MLO) team, where I am fortunate to work with Dr. Dheeraj Nagraj, Dr. Karthikeyan Shanmugam and Dr. Prateek Jain. My current research focus is on improving sampling algorithms, primarily focusing on diffusion (and related) models.

Prior to this, I had the opportunity to spend six months at Technical University of Munich (TUM) as a visiting student researcher under the guidance of Prof. Debarghya Ghoshdastidar, supported by the DAAD-KOSPIE programme. I also did a research internship under Prof. Apurva Narayan at The University of British Columbia (UBC), funded through MITACS Globalink.

I graduated with a Dual Degree (B.Tech + M.Tech) in Electrical Engineering (with specialization in Data Science) from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras in 2024.

Publications & Preprints

Fine-Tuning Diffusion Models via Intermediate Distribution Shaping
Gautham Govind Anil, Shaan Ul Haque, Nithish Kannen, Dheeraj Nagraj, Sanjay Shakkottai and Karthikeyan Shanmugam
ICLR 2026
Also presented at ICML PUT Workshop 2025
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Interleaved Gibbs Diffusion for Constrained Generation
Gautham Govind Anil, Sachin Yadav, Dheeraj Nagraj, Karthikeyan Shanmugam and Prateek Jain
Preprint
Also presented at ICLR DeLTA Workshop 2025
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Infinite Width Limits of Self Supervised Neural Networks
Maximilian Fleissner, Gautham Govind Anil and Debarghya Ghoshdastidar
AISTATS 2025
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Generating Universal Adversarial Perturbations for Quantum Classifiers
Gautham Anil*, Vishnu Vinod* and Apurva Narayan
AAAI 2024
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(* denotes equal contribution)
Google DeepMind
Pre-Doctoral Researcher
Jul '24 - Present
Technical Universtiy of Munich
Visiting Student Researcher
Aug '23 - Mar '24
The University of British Columbia
Research Intern
May '22 - Aug '22
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Student
Jul '19 - Jun '24