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Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights

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Astra, a frontier LLM described as GPT-6 Astra, can read and write raw neural network weights directly from natural-language instructions, without gradient descent or training loops. Tested on small policies and diffusion models, it identified the training game and target shape from weights alone.

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