Qwen-Scope: Turning Sparse Features into Development Tools for Large Language Models · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2605.11887/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enWed, 04 Nov 2026 05:35:47 GMTQwen-Scope: Turning Sparse Features into Development Tools for Large Language Models — mentioned by yurimohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50349420urn:hackerpapers:mention:2605.11887:50349420Tue, 03 Nov 2026 08:20:18 GMT<p>Maybe they weren&#x27;t aware of the bug, steering is a good method to quickly improve the model, more popularly used to refuse unsafe queries. Qwen researchers do work on interpretability and try to make it practical in production: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.11887 , I&#x27;ve read this paper this summer. Overall yes, when you edit weights what often happens is that performance deteriorates elsewhere, this generally scales with how destructive your method of editing is and how expansive your edits are. Analogous to if you use a jackhammer and touch every surface in the house versus using a small chisel…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2605.11887/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CL