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Tree-Ising: Repairing Language Models with Bit-Level Ising Edits

An MIT-developed frontier LLM agent, GPT-6 Astra, repaired reasoning loops in Qwen3.5-0.8B without gradients using weight-space programming, according to work by Takehi et al., consuming 158 agent turns, 89.7 million tokens and 50 forward passes. The technique, described as Tree-Ising bit-level editing, lets an agent read a network's weights and write a repair directly.

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Weight-space programming, introduced in recent MIT work by Takehi et al., enables a frontier LLM agent to read a network's weights and write a repair. Their GPT-6 Astra agent corrected the reasoning loops of Qwen3.5-0.8B without gradients, using 158 agent turns, 89.7 million tokens, and 50 forward-p

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