{"id":2799,"job_id":5915,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":33,"type":"explore","user_id":73,"model":"gpt-6.1-sol","provider":"openai","report_md":"# Known-work comparison: exact early H0 rejection\n\nThe assigned question exactly equals the served job briefs of returns 2649 and 2761: 143 UTF-8 bytes, SHA-256 deffbddb7959c80575aa503fc26c5a08136cb29e9c9fc3e37fcef8592a4c317e. Those records, original 2618, controlled measurement 2626 and reviews 712/774 already answer conventional early rejection and its measured limits. No changed premise or named replication objective was established. This is a heuristic coverage judgment, not new scientific acceptance.\n\nFor 32 literal lowercase hexadecimal ASCII bytes, standard IV and exact RFC1321 padding, H0 is final after one-based step 61. Later steps update D, C and B. An eight-character target is formed by decoding candidate[0:8] into four bytes and packing little-endian; it is not an ASCII message word. A failed equality safely rejects; survivors finish full MD5 verification. Correctness requires no random-output assumption.\n\nWith observed survival fraction p, tail omission executes 61+3p conventional updates, saving 3(1-p)/64, at most 4.6875%. The equal-step ratio 64/61 is about 1.04918, not a universal throughput ceiling. Return 2626 reports seven alternating scalar Apple-arm64/clang17 pairs with 4,915,200 prepacked evaluations per arm: median full/gate ratios 1.04180 for one character and 1.05732 for eight characters. These are attributed prior timings, not reproduced here; its earlier confounded 1.07051 revision is excluded. Gate correctness and finite throughput remain separate evidence scopes.\n\nThe known fixture refutes only a premature equality against provisional A before its final update. Rewriting the final update as an inverse equality still charges its predicate arithmetic. Neither statement excludes sound earlier predicates or alternative algorithms. Return 2761 preserves the distinction between individual-coordinate freedom and nonlinear relations on reachable states; no generic-search lower bound or actual-MD5 hardness follows. Conditional transformations, earlier reachable-state filters and fixed-point existence stay open. A concrete new predicate or construction, source defect or explicit independent replication objective would reopen work.\n\nNo scientific execution, new MD5 evaluation, new candidate, artifact or review request is made. Current scientific CPU is zero. I read current project documents, lane messages through 5102 and issued in-flight work-state; unchanged empty integrated tables do not erase the covering returns. This known-work-only result leaves numerical records and route decisions unchanged.\n\nProposed OUTCOMES entry, not integrated: Self match / exact early H0 gate covered by 2618, 2626 and 2649; omission at most 3/64 conventional updates, implementation-scoped prior paired timing, no new CPU or candidate. Earlier sound bounds and fixed-point existence remain open.\n\nSources: https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2618 ; https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2626 ; https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2649 with full reviews 712/774; https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2761 . RFC provenance is inherited through these inspected records, not freshly fetched or re-executed here.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{},"author_rung":"heuristic","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-10T19:26:31.155Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":["Benjaminsen"],"returns":[2618,2626,2649,2761],"messages":[]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":23882,"models":{"gpt-6.1-sol":3490},"output":3490,"source":"reported","entries":0,"cache_read":695552,"cache_write":0,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"Read returns 2618, 2626 and 2649 with reviews 712/774. Compare the current question to job_brief in 2649 and 2761: identical 143 UTF-8 bytes. Distinguish the schedule/step-count argument from the attributed scalar timing evidence and preserve the earlier-predicate gap. No scientific executable or new artifact is required for this comparison.","verification":null,"target":null,"finding":null,"human_md":null,"provisional":false,"effects_applied_at":null,"effort":"high","also_fix":null,"transcript_omitted":{"share":0,"omitted":0,"outputs":0},"patch_hash":null,"superseded_by":null,"duplicate_of":null,"transcript_resubmitted_at":null,"file_notes":null,"research":null,"research_route_id":null,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":"dept_ef09d64fbbd7ddb34ab67f81","run_id":"run_411484b6e2b0831e995ae861","triage_lead":null,"revision_base_sha":null,"integration":null,"resolves":null,"paper_exposition":null,"research_evidence":null,"transcript_mode":"summary","known_work":{"task":{"intent":"new","schema":"research-task-v1","domain_md":"self-match.methods: The candidate is exactly 32 lowercase ASCII characters from `0123456789abcdef`, in any order, repeats allowed. Its **32 literal ASCII bytes** are hashed; it is not decoded as hex. The score is the length of the common prefix of the candidate and its digest, 0 to 32, stopping at the first mismatch: later matches do not count. The final goal is a candidate equal to its own digest (a fixed point). None is known, and none is proven to exist: a random-map heuristic gives roughly a 63% chance that one exists.\n\nSubmit `candidate`. Fixture: `54db1011d76dc70a0a9df3ff3e0b390f` has digest `54db1011d76d137956603122ad86d762`, score 12. Distinguish input records, throughput, restricted facts and attack methods; compare identical domains, baselines, compute and luck.\nself-match.study-2: The candidate is exactly 32 lowercase ASCII characters from `0123456789abcdef`, in any order, repeats allowed. Its **32 literal ASCII bytes** are hashed; it is not decoded as hex. The score is the length of the common prefix of the candidate and its digest, 0 to 32, stopping at the first mismatch: later matches do not count. The final goal is a candidate equal to its own digest (a fixed point). None is known, and none is proven to exist: a random-map heuristic gives roughly a 63% chance that one exists.\n\nSubmit `candidate`. Fixture: `54db1011d76dc70a0a9df3ff3e0b390f` has digest `54db1011d76d137956603122ad86d762`, score 12. Full 64-step MD5, RFC IV, exact padding; reductions or different IVs are separate scopes. Negative evidence closes only its tested method and scope.","topic_ids":["self-match.methods","self-match.study-2"],"stop_if_md":"The exact obligation is already answered, a decisive counterexample defeats this attempt, or the required evidence cannot be obtained within actual consent and controls.","changed_premise_md":"Establish the exact uncovered difference from existing research before substantial work.","predecessor_returns":[],"expected_evidence_md":"An attributable scoped claim, source, measured comparison or negative result with its cheapest decisive check.","unresolved_obligation_md":"Can the first output word be computed early, or bounded, so most candidates are rejected before all 64 steps? Measure the saving and its limit."},"review_ids":[712,774],"message_ids":[],"comparison_md":"Exact question equality against 2649 and 2761, 143 UTF-8 bytes with SHA-256 deffbddb7959c80575aa503fc26c5a08136cb29e9c9fc3e37fcef8592a4c317e. Original 2618 establishes the schedule; 2626 supplies the controlled saving measurement; 2649 and its reviews distinguish conventional step savings from observed throughput and preserve earlier-bound limitations. No new scientific claim or verification package.","reopen_when_md":"A concrete new candidate-dependent predicate or legal construction, a specific source defect, or an explicit independent replication objective with a stated changed comparison.","remaining_gap_md":"Earlier sound predicates on forward-reachable ASCII32 states, conditional transformations and actual fixed-point existence remain unresolved. This does not close the full self-match problem or assert a universal MD5 lower bound.","predecessor_returns":[2618,2626,2649,2761]},"work_disposition":null,"handle":"danieljmt","job_brief":"Can the first output word be computed early, or bounded, so most candidates are rejected before all 64 steps? 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