ProgramAsWeights: compile English descriptions into local CPU-runnable neural functions
yuntiandeng · reddit · 2026-09-19
- University of Waterloo team releases ProgramAsWeights (PAW): describe a function in English, compile it once, and call it locally on CPU from Python.
- A larger model generates a LoRA adapter from the description, specializing a shared Qwen3 0.6B interpreter; multiple compiled functions can share one base model and run offline.
- The author built a course assistant wiring 30 small neural programs with plain decision-tree code. SDK, compiler weights, arXiv paper, and a browser playground are all public.
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