MIT CSAIL demonstrates weight-space editing on small models; Claude rewrites 8 neurons of Gemma 4 12B to alter Italian tense translation
Read the original at www.reddit.com→Yesterday MIT CSAIL showed GPT-6 Astra editing the weights of a small model by hand. It changed a few neurons of Qwen3.5-0.8B, the model stopped looping on math problems, and its scores jumped. No training at all. I...
Original headline: "I tried MIT's "weight-space programming" on my own use case: Claude rewrote 8 neurons of Gemma 4 12B to change how it translates one Italian tense"
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- Nov 3, 18:48 UTC r/LocalLLaMA lead source I tried MIT's "weight-space programming" on my own use case: Claude rewrote 8 neurons of Gemma 4 12B to change how it translates one Italian tense