MIT CSAIL researchers say Astra removed a loop-causing direction in two layers of Qwen3.5-0.8B, raising MATH-500 from 7.9% to 48.1% and IFEval from 21.0% to 62.3% with 50 forward passes and no gradients; the post passed 9,000 likes and drew reactions from...
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GPT-6 Astra fixed a small model by editing 0.016% of its weights directly, with no training
MIT CSAIL researchers say Astra removed a loop-causing direction in two layers of Qwen3.5-0.8B, raising MATH-500 from 7.9% to 48.1% and IFEval from 21.0% to 62.3% with 50 forward passes and no gradients; the post passed 9,000 likes and drew reactions from...
MIT CSAIL researchers say Astra removed a loop-causing direction in two layers of Qwen3.5-0.8B, raising MATH-500 from 7.9% to 48.1% and IFEval from 21.0% to 62.3% with 50 forward passes and no gradients; the post passed 9,000 likes and drew reactions from Omar Khattab and Kenton Varda. Skeptics note it's basic...
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