MIT CSAIL: GPT-6 Astra edited 0.016% of a small Qwen model's weights and lifted MATH-500 from 7.9% to 48.1% -- critics say it's standard ML engineering
MIT CSAIL researchers (Rikiya Takehi, Jayden Teoh, Alex Zhang and Omar Khattab) published 'Sparks of Weight-Space Programming' on Nov 2. They gave OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra access to the raw weights of Alibaba's small Qwen3.5-0.8B model plus a Python environment, and asked it to fix the model's habit of…
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MIT CSAIL: GPT-6 Astra edited 0.016% of a small Qwen model's weights and lifted MATH-500 from 7.9% to 48.1% -- critics say it's standard ML engineering
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