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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)

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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  18. 2026-11-03 14:30 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
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  22. 2026-11-03 09:06 · r/LocalLLaMA
    [Paper] Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights
  23. 2026-11-03 05:35 · Analytics India Magazine
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  28. 2026-11-02 22:16 · VentureBeat AI
    'Like gene editing for neural networks': MIT researchers used GPT-6 Astra to edit Qwen's open weights directly, boosting math performance
  29. 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.
  30. 2026-11-02 21:25 · r/LocalLLaMA
    GPT-6 Astra Edits Qwen Weights: MATH-500 7.9% to 48.1%
  31. 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
  32. 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.
  33. 2026-11-02 20:18 · r/MachineLearning
    Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights [R]
  34. 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)
  35. 2026-11-02 19:24 · Lobsters AI
    Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights
  36. 2026-11-02 19:15 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights
  37. 2026-11-02 18:45 · r/singularity
    Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights
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