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You can absolutely modify compiled binaries to get something different. That's how lots of video game modding and ROM hacks work.
by piperswe 2y ago
You can absolutely modify compiled binaries to get something different. That's how lots of video game modding and ROM hacks work.
- krisoft 2y agoAnd we would absolutely do it more often if compiling would cost as much as training of an LLM costs now.
- verdverm 2y agoI considered adding "normally" to the binary modifications expecting a response like this. The concepts are still worlds apart Weights aren't really a binary in the same sense that a compiler produces, they lack instructions and are more just a bunch of floating point values. Nor can you run model weights without separate code to interpret them correctly. In this sense, they are more like a JPEG or 3d model
- the8thbit 2y agoJPEGs and 3D models are also executable binaries. They, like model weights, contain domain specific instructions that execute in a domain specific and turing incomplete environment. The model weights are the instructions, and those instructions are interpreted by the inference harness to produce outputs.