Thoughts on LLMs Editing Weights: What's New?
A Reddit post from November 3, 2026, examines research showing large language models can directly read and write neural network weights. The author reviews eight experiments where LLMs identified patterns in first-layer weights, spotted output templates, recognized induction heads, and modified network behavior for physics scenarios and Go gameplay. The post notes that only frontier models from…
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- LLMs can directly read and write neural network weights across eight experiments
- Only frontier models from Google, OpenAI, Anthropic succeed; Kimi K3.1 Pro fails
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Thoughts on LLMs Editing Weights: What's New?
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