Directly editing Qwen3.5-0.8B weights with GPT-6 Astra boosts math scores by about 6x

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A research team at MIT published findings on 'Weight-Space Programming,' showing that directly editing Qwen3.5-0.8B weights using GPT-6 Astra improved math performance by up to 6 times.

Key points

•A research team at MIT, including Rikya Takehi, published results on November 2.
•They used a method called 'Weight-Space Programming' to directly rewrite model weights.
•This approach improved the math performance of Qwen3.5-0.8B by up to 6 times.

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