LLM Weight Edits Fix Flaws But Fail to Boost Reasoning, Researcher Finds
A researcher experimenting on small toy domains found that editing LLM weights can fix obvious reasoning defects, but even for very small models it cannot raise the model's reasoning ceiling, tempering expectations for weight-space programming.
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