AnalysisAI ModelsNovember 2, 2026

MIT CSAIL: GPT-6 Astra edits Qwen weights, lifts MATH-500 7.9% to 48.1%

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Four MIT CSAIL researchers report GPT-6 Astra natively read and wrote Qwen3.5-0.8B's weights, changing just 0.016% of them to lift MATH-500 from 7.9% to 48.1% with no gradients or training loop. The authors say the edit mostly removed a failure mode, and all experiments but the Qwen one are small.

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