Xiaoxiao Li and colleagues at the University of British Columbia and the Vector Institute published "What Did Astra’s Edit Actually Do?", a mechanistic check of MIT CSAIL's Sparks of Weight-Space Programming paper, in which Astra edited a sm...
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UBC researchers find Astra's Qwen math edit mostly stops looping, and is a reversal rather than a deletion
Xiaoxiao Li and colleagues at the University of British Columbia and the Vector Institute published "What Did Astra’s Edit Actually Do?", a mechanistic check of MIT CSAIL's Sparks of Weight-Space Programming paper, in which Astra edited a sm...
Xiaoxiao Li and colleagues at the University of British Columbia and the Vector Institute published "What Did Astra’s Edit Actually Do?", a mechanistic check of MIT CSAIL's Sparks of Weight-Space Programming paper, in which Astra edited a smaller model's weights. They reproduced the headline Qwen math gain...
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