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Astra shown reading and writing weights to improve Qwen
Original: Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen
A new write-up describes Astra, a system that can read and modify the internal weights of Qwen, the open-source large language model from Alibaba, in order to improve its performance. Rather than only prompting or fine-tuning through standard APIs, the approach operates directly in the model's weight space. Early reaction among developers is one of curiosity and debate about how far weight-space programming could go as a technique.
Why now: Directly editing a model's weights to improve it is a novel, technically provocative idea that has caught developers' attention.
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- Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen · dbreunig · 2.9K
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