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Secant

Direct weight-space programming, quantized block surgery, and subspace-locked LoRA in Rust and PyTorch.

professor-moody.github.io

Research focus.

Reads, audits, calibrates, patches, and subspace-locks neural network weights directly on disk across SafeTensors and GGUF. Combines zero-evaluation spectral weight inspection, Target-Shift Calibrated multi-subspace composition, 34-byte Q8_0 quantized block surgery, and ProjectThenHealLinear so post-surgical LoRA fine-tuning cannot erase weight edits.

Read into the work.

4 essays
  1. From Sparks to Secant: A Four-Part Series on Weight-Space Programming, C++ Kernel Safety, Subspace-Locked LoRA, and Spectral Trojan Auditing

    6 min read
  2. The Illusion of Safe Tensors: Why Valid Model Files Still Need Numerical Checks

    17 min read
  3. Trapped Inside `<think>`: Multi-Subspace Weight Surgery and What Controls Reveal on Small Reasoning Models

    21 min read
  4. Project-Then-Heal: Weight-Space Programming and Subspace-Locked LoRA

    25 min read
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