Researchers say LLMs can be good at natively reading and writing neural network weights; GPT-6 Astra edited Qwen3.5-0.8B's weights to make it better at math (Rikiya Takehi)
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Rikiya Takehi : Researchers say LLMs can be good at natively reading and writing neural network weights; GPT-6 Astra edited Qwen3.5-0.8B's weights to make it better at math TL;DR If you were asked to handcraft a neural network that plays Go, what would you do? If you were handed raw neural network…
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Weight-Space Programming: how GPT-6 Astra edited Qwen's weights and took MATH-500 from 7.9% to 48.1% - 2026-11-04 09:46 · DEV Community — AI
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Bagaimana GPT-6 Astra Memperbaiki Qwen3.5-0.8B dengan Mengedit 0,016% Bobotnya - 2026-11-04 02:26 · r/mlscaling
Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights - 2026-11-03 20:53 · Pandaily
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Weight-Space Programming Works: An LLM Fixed Qwen's Math Loop by Editing 0.016% of Its Weights - 2026-11-03 14:30 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
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Astra’s Weight‑Space Programming: A Practical Guide to Tuning Qwen - 2026-11-03 09:06 · r/LocalLLaMA
[Paper] Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights - 2026-11-03 05:35 · Analytics India Magazine
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'Like gene editing for neural networks': MIT researchers used GPT-6 Astra to edit Qwen's open weights directly, boosting math performance - 2026-11-02 21:36 · r/LocalLLM
MIT researchers say GPT-6 Astra improved a small Qwen model’s math score from 7.9% to 48.1% by directly editing just 0.016% of its weights, without gradient-based training. - 2026-11-02 21:25 · r/LocalLLaMA
GPT-6 Astra Edits Qwen Weights: MATH-500 7.9% to 48.1% - 2026-11-02 21:00 · Ethan Mollick (X)
If this holds up, it is big: "We asked GPT-6 Astra to edit Qwen3.5-0.8B weights to improve math - 2026-11-02 20:18 · r/singularity
MIT researchers say GPT-6 Astra improved a small Qwen model’s math score from 7.9% to 48.1% by directly editing just 0.016% of its weights, without gradient-based training. - 2026-11-02 20:18 · r/MachineLearning
Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights [R] - 2026-11-02 20:00 · Techmeme
Researchers say LLMs can be good at natively reading and writing neural network weights; GPT-6 Astra edited Qwen3.5-0.8B's weights to make it better at math (Rikiya Takehi) - 2026-11-02 19:24 · Lobsters AI
Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights