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Post questions whether weight-editing fix for Qwen3.5-0.8B loops has side effects

AIDongxi NLP compares the method to activation steering and argues that the reported gains on MMLU-Pro, GPQA, and IFEval may come from fixing reasoning loops that affected those benchmarks. The author removed the projection of 128 weight columns that write the loop direction rather than adding a steering vector.
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非常有启发!但... 难道不像 LLM 的贺建奎么?

方法中看到了 activation steering 的影子:先找到模型某种倾向对应的激活方向,比如文中让模型算题停不下来的 loop 问题。

作者没有往模型里加一个 steering vector,而把写入这个方向最多的 128 列权重里的对应分量投影掉了。

评估使用的 MMLU-Pro、GPQA、IFEval 等确实都有提升,但这些 benchmark 原本都受 loop 影响,loop 修好了,分数当然全面提升。

问题是,副作用呢?

Rikiya Takehi@rikiyatakehi
We asked GPT-6 Astra to edit Qwen3.5-0.8B weights to improve math. It directly changed only 0.016% of weights, fixing 0.8B's reasoning loops & improving math up to 6x and even instruction following 3x, without gradients or training. We call this Weight-Space Programming: frontier LLMs can now natively read/write neural network weights! 🧵 Blog: https://rikiyat.github.io/blog/weight-space-programming/
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Original title: 非常有启发!但... 难道不像 LLM 的贺建奎么?