Hacker News · 300+· syllogism·· 11 days ago65
The 'Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen' post is misleading
The 'Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen' post is misleading
Brief overview
Astra directly reads weights in 17K-172K weight network experiments, but in the 800M weight Qwen3.5 mathematical ability improvement experiment, it requires combining Python programming and model execution, not just reading weights; Astra modifying 0.016% weights increased Qwen3.5-0.8B's MATH-500 from 7.9% to 48.1% and tripled IFEval.
Source: Hacker News · 300+ · honnibal.dev