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AIHOT · Published on November 3, 2026 at 10:00

MIT CSAIL introduces 'Weight Space Programming': GPT-6 Astra modifies only about 0.016% of Qwen3.5-0.8B's weights to boost MATH-500 scores by six times.

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MIT CSAIL researchers propose 'Weight Space Programming', enabling GPT-6 Astra to directly read and modify Qwen3.5-0.8B's weights—altering just 131,072 parameters (roughly 0.016%) without gradient descent or traditional training loops.

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