Machine Learning Algorithms & Natural Language Processing

Nov 3, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

MIT's GPT-6 Astra Edits Qwen Weights Directly, Boosting Math Skills 6x Without Training

MIT researchers demonstrate GPT-6 Astra directly modifying Qwen3.5-0.8B's weights, improving MATH-500 scores from 7.9% to 48.1% (6x) by altering only 0.016% of parameters without gradient descent, and even writing neural network weights from scratch for games, outperforming PPO baselines 20x.