Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too
- 3rd November 2026 Yesterday’s hot paper was Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights by Rikiya Takehi, Jayden Teoh, Alex Zhang, and Omar Khattab.
- The paper found that frontier models, in particular GPT-6 Astra, can both interpret and modify the raw weights of a machine learning model—literally a text description of the model containing a bunch of floating point numbers.
- I’ve been playing with one of the examples from the paper and I’m delighted to share that Qwen 3.8 27B running on my laptop can do this as well!
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- 3rd November 2026 Yesterday’s hot paper was Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights by Rikiya Takehi, Jayden Teoh, Alex Zhang, and Omar Khattab.
- The paper found that frontier models, in particular GPT-6 Astra, can both interpret and modify the raw weights of a machine learning model—literally a text description of the model containing a bunch of floating point numbers.
- I’ve been playing with one of the examples from the paper and I’m delighted to share that Qwen 3.8 27B running on my laptop can do this as well!
Sources: Simonwillison