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7.9% to 48.1%: LLM rewrote Qwen weights, no training

Astra lifted Qwen3.5-0.8B from 7.9% to 48.1% on MATH-500 by editing 0.016% of its weights — no gradients, no training. That 6.1x jump is not a smarter model; it is a model finally allowed to finish its answers. The result comes from a research post published today, November 2, by Rikiya T. and coll…

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  1. 2026-11-02 19:29 · DEV Community — AI
    7.9% to 48.1%: LLM rewrote Qwen weights, no training

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