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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%

Community description: MIT CSAIL's weight-space programming: GPT-6 Astra edited 0.016% of Qwen3.5-0.8B's weights with no gradients and lifted MATH-500 from 7.9% to 48.1%. How it works.

Dev.to | Nov 4, 2026 | Ahmad Dogar

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Editor model: GPT-6 Astra, a general-purpose frontier LLM. Weights: the numbers inside a neural network. Which model did MIT use to edit the weights?

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