November 5, 2026
Astra reduces Qwen's looping without fine-tuning by changing 0.016% of its weights

In a Nov 2 experiment at MIT CSAIL, Astra changed 131,072 weights in a small Qwen model to make it less likely to get stuck in reasoning loops.
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November 5, 2026

In a Nov 2 experiment at MIT CSAIL, Astra changed 131,072 weights in a small Qwen model to make it less likely to get stuck in reasoning loops.
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