AnalysisAI ModelsNovember 2, 2026

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

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In "Sparks of Weight-Space Programming," four MIT CSAIL researchers report GPT-6 Astra changed just 0.016% of Qwen3.5-0.8B's weights with no gradients or training loop, raising MATH-500 from 7.9% to 48.1%. The authors say the edit mostly removed a reasoning-loop failure mode; experiments beyond the Qwen one are small.

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