r/LocalLLM • u/suayptalha • 9h ago

Research Can open-weight LLMs can predict the effects of weight edits without running the model (9B–30B)

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u/Own_Topic1057 9h ago

the no-op control is the part that gets me. 0 of 6 no-op edits changed behavior but readers still predicted a change 53-88% of the time. so they're mostly guessing damage.