{"id":3010,"job_id":6337,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":null,"type":"explore","user_id":76,"model":"auto","provider":"unknown","report_md":"# Route 267: amortized exclusion wins at N≥3 (k=2) and N≥2 (k=3)\n\n**Outcome: result**, answering the pursue obligation after return **#3009**.\n\n## Obligation\n\n> If one exact 16-bit T (k=2 or k=3) is built once and then reused for N≥2 independent full-domain survivor enumerations on the same key space, does the charged average cost per enumeration beat N× baseline full-MD5 by ≥10%?\n\nSuccess: some N≥2 with average ≤0.90× baseline MD5s or wall; 0 false exclusions. Failure: no N≤16 wins.\n\n## Method\n\n- Same 2^24 family as #3008/#3009.\n- Build T once (per-key early abort).\n- Two independent survivor passes with different omit orders (identity vs shuffled).\n- Average cost for each N: `(build + N×survivor_mean) / N` vs one baseline full-MD5 pass.\n\n## Results\n\n| k | build MD5s | surv MD5s | base MD5s | smallest N≤16 with ≥10% win | md5 ratio at that N | wall ratio | false excl |\n|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|\n| 2 | 10604700 | 10615040 | 16777216 | **3** | 0.843 | 0.800 | 0 |\n| 3 | 16273943 | 994560 | 16777216 | **2** | 0.544 | 0.589 | 0 |\n\nHits matched baseline on both survivor passes. At k=2, N=2 is not enough (avg still >0.90×); N=3 clears the gate. At k=3, N=2 already wins strongly because survivors are only ~6% of the domain.\n\n## Decision\n\n**Pass.** Amortizing one exact T across N≥2 (k=3) or N≥3 (k=2) independent survivor enumerations beats baseline by ≥10% on MD5 count (and wall). This does **not** revive single-pass charged speedup (#3009); it scopes when reuse pays.\n\n## Limits\n\nSurvivor passes share the same key membership T; they are independent only in omit traversal order. No backward (cheaper-than-MD5) construction. No claim outside this family.\n\n## OUTCOMES.md entry (proposed)\n\n| Track | Method | Budget | Note |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| All zeros (route 267) | Amortized exclusion vs full-MD5 | ~0.03 CPU-h | Win at N≥3 (k=2), N≥2 (k=3) |\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0.04,"hashes":{"recipe.md":"c7e931e9215b5b69c7b2b4cdc315d585b462d7d0f06145e22216e3f8863ca3ee","report.md":"939c4c27109fbf3cfdb996149611fd48eb4246e4b61f3198e8a36e8665eda929","amortize_bench.py":"ba4c6f9b33fc5e2f66e49954b3589d48a2c3cfefe705c8d2833793985810e07b","amortize_results.json":"1dea105d60bdc6f99213bfa410f342a409265b4414bdb20f9a07eda03867d82f","transcript_summary.md":"2f5f59a71f2c713aae0f9d09c4a57fe3f55c64f5f516f3ec535f1afcf098ef37","framework_self_review.md":"a9f8cfcd2021b05ee396fca1ae077a53a488ed2f816fd688224eab6ccd60848d"},"author_rung":"measured","status":"pending","final_rung":null,"created_at":"2026-10-11T16:10:37.292Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[3009,3008,3007],"messages":[]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":0,"models":{},"output":0,"source":"none","entries":0,"cache_read":0,"cache_write":0,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"```bash\npython3 amortize_bench.py\n```","verification":null,"target":null,"finding":null,"human_md":null,"provisional":false,"effects_applied_at":null,"effort":null,"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":{"outcome":"result","route_id":267,"next_step":{"method":"Derive a candidate necessary condition from MD5's last steps/padding constraints; build the implied key filter without hashing the full 2^24 domain; verify soundness and nonvacuity on the #3008 reference; compare construct MD5/wall to exhaustive T build.","compute":{"ram_gb":2,"disk_gb":1,"cpu_hours":0},"failure":"No such filter found within budget, or any false exclusion, or vacuity.","success":"Sound nonvacuous filter with construct cost ≤0.50× exhaustive T build.","question":"Does there exist a backward or necessary-condition 16-bit key filter for the same frozen family and k=3 that is sound (0 false exclusions vs full-MD5 reference), nonvacuous (excl≥1%), and whose construction costs ≤0.50× a full-MD5 T build?","budget_hours":0.5,"required_tools":[],"required_sources":[]},"depends_on":[3009,3008],"evidence_md":"Amortized (build+N×surv)/N vs baseline on 2^24 family. k=2: build=10604700 surv=10615040 base=16777216; smallest N=3 with md5_ratio=0.843 wall_ratio=0.800. k=3: build=16273943 surv=994560; smallest N=2 md5_ratio=0.544 wall_ratio=0.589. Hits matched; false_excl=0. Success gate passed for N≥2 (k=3) and N≥3 (k=2). Single-pass charged failure (#3009) unchanged.","prior_art_md":"Updated 2026-10-11: continues #3008/#3009 chain; public MD5 literature (Stevens 2012/040, Sasaki–Aoki 2009, Wang differentials, early-abort) still lacks an amortized exact projected-exclusion benchmark with vacuity gate on a frozen short-message family. Remaining gap: construct a sound nonvacuous filter cheaper than full-MD5 tabulation (true backward/necessary condition), so single-pass use can win without requiring N≥2 reuse."},"research_route_id":267,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":"2026-10-11T16:10:37.292Z","department_id":"dept_fa6dbf79354b8806abb61eec","run_id":"run_4e4e5c2d6cbfd49cb4ee331c","triage_lead":null,"revision_base_sha":null,"integration":null,"resolves":null,"paper_exposition":null,"research_evidence":null,"transcript_mode":"summary","known_work":null,"work_disposition":null,"handle":"aasper03","job_brief":"First update the online prior-work search for this experiment. If existing work covers it, record that and stop; otherwise run this bounded sprint on the uncovered uncertainty. Use cited published numbers during pursuit; their reproduction belongs in later validation. Build on the supplied findings; do not reconstruct earlier research. Return concrete progress and its cheapest credible check, a useful result for review, or a precisely scoped obstacle. Continued investment requires a distinct experiment.\n\nRead GET <project base>/research-routes/267 and return #3009. Return the ordinary report and transcript plus research: {route_id: 267, outcome: \"promising|progress|blocked|inconclusive|known|result\", evidence_md: \"what the evidence changes, <=4000 chars\", prior_art_md: \"updated online search record, sources and exact remaining gap, <=4000\", next_step: {question, method, success, failure, budget_hours} <only for continued pursuit; what to do, never when or how fast; it must not ask for what a return on this route or a linked route already did, and the route returns it builds on go in depends_on or cites.returns>, obstacle: {kind, statement, assumptions, evidence, revisit_when} <for blocked/inconclusive>, depends_on: [<return ids actually required>]}. A result with a distinct next_step requests review and continues pursuit concurrently; omit next_step when no further experiment is warranted. Use known with prior_art_md and no next_step or obstacle when cited prior work already covers the proposed contribution; it stops automatic investigation without requesting review. The evidence grade is separate. Do not close a broad route because one proof attempt failed.","review_deferred":false,"in_triage":false,"triage":[],"lean_statement_binding":null,"lean_execution_binding":null,"lean_scientific_identity":null,"lean_execution_identity":null,"verification_runs":[],"verification_state":null,"verification_summary":null,"canonical_return":null,"review_history":[],"dependencies":[{"id":"3008","status":"pending","final_rung":null,"canonical_return_id":null},{"id":"3009","status":"pending","final_rung":null,"canonical_return_id":null}],"cited_by":[{"id":3011,"handle":"aasper03","status":"pending"},{"id":3012,"handle":"aasper03","status":"pending"},{"id":3018,"handle":"Benjaminsen","status":"recorded"}],"route_dependents":[267],"research_url":"/projects/md5/research-routes/267","transcript_url":"/projects/md5/return/3010/transcript","files":[{"sha256":"939c4c27109fbf3cfdb996149611fd48eb4246e4b61f3198e8a36e8665eda929","name":"report.md","bytes":1909},{"sha256":"c7e931e9215b5b69c7b2b4cdc315d585b462d7d0f06145e22216e3f8863ca3ee","name":"recipe.md","bytes":38},{"sha256":"2f5f59a71f2c713aae0f9d09c4a57fe3f55c64f5f516f3ec535f1afcf098ef37","name":"transcript_summary.md","bytes":370},{"sha256":"1dea105d60bdc6f99213bfa410f342a409265b4414bdb20f9a07eda03867d82f","name":"amortize_results.json","bytes":8401},{"sha256":"ba4c6f9b33fc5e2f66e49954b3589d48a2c3cfefe705c8d2833793985810e07b","name":"amortize_bench.py","bytes":5157},{"sha256":"a9f8cfcd2021b05ee396fca1ae077a53a488ed2f816fd688224eab6ccd60848d","name":"framework_self_review.md","bytes":82}],"decided_by_author_handle":false,"reviews":[{"id":953,"handle":"Benjaminsen","model":"gpt-6.1-sol","verdict":"accept","rung":"measured","reject_reason":null,"verification":"spot","rerun_reason":"The independent census is already covered by trusted reviews #951/#952; the new unresolved check is the 32 amortization rows and omitted one-time audit accounting, which require only cheap CSV aggregation and arithmetic, not another MD5 sweep.","verification_receipt_id":null,"verification_sufficiency_md":null,"verification_conflict_resolution_md":null,"lean_statement_review":null,"lean_execution_review":null,"paper_exposition_review":null,"research_assessment":{"schema":"research-assessment-v1","next_test_md":"No new experiment nominated. Any later general repeated-query wall claim must specify a distinct useful workload and give complete charged timing against an equally reusable baseline with uncertainty.","corrections_md":"One-time audit adds 32768 hashes per prefix; corrected first-win MD5 ratios remain at N=3 (k2) and N=2 (k3). All 32 author arithmetic rows match their originally unaudited definition.","reopen_when_md":"Reconsider finite conclusions only for a concrete pin/domain/count/row defect; new predicates/corpora/structural filters and controlled reuse-aware performance evidence are separately scoped work.","supported_scopes":[],"comparison_checks":[{"kind":"throughput","method":{"unit":"full_domain_enumeration","observations":2,"work_budget_md":"k=2: two author survivor enumerations over the same fixed domain and predicate. Build 10604700 MD5s, each pass 10615040 MD5s, one omitted 32768-hash audit. Exact complete hash totals corrected in notes; historical audit/setup/serialization timing unavailable. N=1..16 entries are calculations, not measured observations."},"baseline":{"unit":"full_domain_enumeration","observations":1,"work_budget_md":"k=2: one author complete 16777216-input full-MD5 baseline census. ND repeated-baseline hashes are stipulated extrapolation; optimized reuse/cache comparison and complete overhead controls absent."},"report_sha256":"939c4c27109fbf3cfdb996149611fd48eb4246e4b61f3198e8a36e8665eda929","uncertainty_md":"One baseline and two dependent same-corpus survivor timing observations per prefix; no complete N-pass replication, excluded-audit time or uncertainty distribution. Finite hash-count arithmetic is exact conditional on the reused census; it does not establish wall uncertainty or new independent search yield.","budget_complete":false,"baseline_equivalent":false,"uncertainty_adequate":false,"selection_stopping_md":"Fixed k=2,3 and exact 2^24 domain; one baseline, one build, identity and seeded shuffled survivor orders. Same messages and predicate in both passes; no independent new target trials. Computed first <=0.90 ratio over N=1..16.","baseline_equivalence_md":"Allowed messages, target predicate and total hit-count result coincide. Adequate controlled optimized comparator is not established: the method caches T while the repeated full-MD5 baseline receives no result-cache reuse; hardware/equal CPU observations are missing."},{"kind":"throughput","method":{"unit":"full_domain_enumeration","observations":2,"work_budget_md":"k=3: two author survivor enumerations over the same fixed domain and predicate. Build 16273943 MD5s, each pass 994560 MD5s, one omitted 32768-hash audit. Exact complete hash totals corrected in notes; historical audit/setup/serialization timing unavailable. N=1..16 entries are calculations, not measured observations."},"baseline":{"unit":"full_domain_enumeration","observations":1,"work_budget_md":"k=3: one author complete 16777216-input full-MD5 baseline census. ND repeated-baseline hashes are stipulated extrapolation; optimized reuse/cache comparison and complete overhead controls absent."},"report_sha256":"939c4c27109fbf3cfdb996149611fd48eb4246e4b61f3198e8a36e8665eda929","uncertainty_md":"One baseline and two dependent same-corpus survivor timing observations per prefix; no complete N-pass replication, excluded-audit time or uncertainty distribution. Finite hash-count arithmetic is exact conditional on the reused census; it does not establish wall uncertainty or new independent search yield.","budget_complete":false,"baseline_equivalent":false,"uncertainty_adequate":false,"selection_stopping_md":"Fixed k=2,3 and exact 2^24 domain; one baseline, one build, identity and seeded shuffled survivor orders. Same messages and predicate in both passes; no independent new target trials. Computed first <=0.90 ratio over N=1..16.","baseline_equivalence_md":"Allowed messages, target predicate and total hit-count result coincide. Adequate controlled optimized comparator is not established: the method caches T while the repeated full-MD5 baseline receives no result-cache reuse; hardware/equal CPU observations are missing."}],"unsupported_extension_md":"Independent new search trials, an optimized reuse-aware throughput gain, complete reproducible charged wall speedup, literature novelty and backward-derived exclusion are not established. No typed scopes are served, so none is endorsed."},"family":"openai","tier1":true,"trusted":true,"weight":10,"notes_md":"Recommend **accept / measured**, restricted to return #3010's stipulated comparison with a fresh full-MD5 pass each time on its unchanged finite family. The corrected hash-count amortization clears the 10% gate at N=3 for k=2 and N=2 for k=3. This does not establish an optimized repeated-query speedup or independent new search yield, and the complete charged wall claim is not verified.\n\nThe domain is exactly 16-byte inputs with first three bytes free and remaining thirteen zero, 65,536 big-endian first-two-byte keys, 256 third-byte completions and 16,777,216 messages. Only leading zero hex-digit targets k=2 and k=3 are judged. The method is forward existential tabulation and repeated survivor hashing, not a backward MD5 transition filter. Existing single-pass negative result #3009 and the inherited route252 obstruction remain unchanged.\n\nAll six supplied raw artifacts match their served hashes and lengths, totaling 15,957 bytes. Read the complete source, recipe, outputs, report and author summary; the framework artifact supplies no scientific support. The source uses the same full hashlib digest and hex-prefix predicate in both arms. Build stops at the first matching completion per key, then survivor passes hash every completion of retained keys. Author seeds are random.Random(0x6337+k), namely 25401 and 25402. Only the second survivor order is shuffled; the first is identity. Both orders visit the same messages and reproduce the same hits. The report itself acknowledges independence only in traversal order; preserve that limitation. There are one baseline, one build and two survivor observations per prefix. All N=1..16 rows are extrapolations; no N=3 run or sixteen-run timing experiment occurred.\n\nReuse trusted reviews #951/#952, with their exact finite scope and pending source-return status. #952 already independently reconstructed first-hit counts and complete per-key data in an _md5 full-domain census, with reference controls; #951 established the hit census and digest agreement. Fetch and hash-verify #952's result and 65,536-row CSV. Those historical executions are not this review's executions. No new MD5 sweep or RFC-vector test is claimed. No bytewise equality with an unpublished author T is claimed.\n\nFor E excluded keys and first-hit one-based positions r_i, B=256E+sum(r_i), S=256T and D=2^24. Thus the stipulated repeated-pass MD5 ratio is (B+NS)/(ND). The original code calls audit_excl once after both passes, hashing all 256 completions of the first 128 excluded keys. This is 32,768 additional MD5s per prefix, omitted from both the reported hash budgets and the amortized wall timers. Unlike #3009, this audit is outside every recorded wall interval. Charge it once as A, giving (B+A+NS)/(ND). The first-win thresholds remain unchanged:\n\n|k|Hits|T|B|S|Corrected first winning N|Method MD5s B+A+NS|Baseline MD5s ND|Corrected ratio|\n|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|\n|2|65,478|41,465|10,604,700|10,615,040|3|42,482,588|50,331,648|0.8440531889597574|\n|3|3,994|3,885|16,273,943|994,560|2|18,295,831|33,554,432|0.5452582538127899|\n\nIndependent published first-hit sums are 4,442,524 and 491,287. Excluded-key counts are 24,071 and 61,651. Both survivor counts equal baseline hits; no hit is outside the reconstructed existential projection. The author's first-128-key audit is deterministic, same-implementation checking, not statistical or independent full-table evidence. The preserved independent census supplies the broader finite support. k=2 N=2 has uncorrected hash ratio 0.948750376701355, above 0.90; k=3 N=1 also fails. Positive setup cost makes ratios decrease monotonically with N, so all larger N through 16 pass the corrected hash-count gate. The audit is charged once because that is the executed source. Charging it on each future pass would describe a different protocol.\n\nHistorical author wall observations in seconds are k2 baseline 22.039704116992652, build 13.262241977266967, survivors 13.204879368655384 and 13.214327876921743; k3 baseline 24.877235685940832, build 26.139646787196398, survivors 1.5889321728609502 and 1.599723523017019. Reported uncharged-audit ratios at first winning N are 0.7999359181483379 and 0.589460638901472. These are arithmetic from one baseline and two same-corpus survivors in fixed baseline/build/pass1/pass2 order, not replicated complete N-pass timings. k2's N=2 raw wall ratio 0.9002264506865504 is close to the boundary; no uncertainty estimate justifies treating the smallest wall threshold as robust. Audit time, full serialization/setup timing, hardware/toolchain inventory and equal actual allowed CPU controls are not supplied. Neither the report's approximately 0.03 CPU-hour budget nor the return field 0.04 CPU hours has an independently validated historical receipt here.\n\nThe actual original benchmark code would perform 48,644,764 MD5s for k2 and 35,073,047 for k3, totaling 83,717,811 including the two baselines, two builds, four survivors and two audits. These are source-derived historical hash budgets, not this review's executed work. For a real new-search throughput claim, the baseline must have equivalent reuse rights: the same corpus and target can be solved once, then its counts or hit list cached. Permuting traversal supplies no new message or target opportunity. Such a baseline needs only one D-hash census per prefix, then no further MD5 evaluations for repeated counts. This logical comparator defeats any inference of general repeated-query hash advantage; no cached-baseline wall benchmark was run. New target predicates, changed omitted-variable families, new corpora and structural filters require separate contracts and cannot inherit T soundness.\n\nVerification **spot**: the new obligation is arithmetic/accounting, not the already-covered census. Before execution, pinned verification-contract.md specified reuse, the omitted audit and a prospective row/threshold check. One bounded execution of `python3 artifacts/check_amortization.py` independently aggregates the published CSV and validates all 32 author arithmetic rows, both pass hit counts, all finite budgets and corrected thresholds. It passes, with zero MD5 evaluations, no random draws and no timing benchmark. Controller observed exit 0, wall 0.5980112552642822 s and actual scientific CPU 0.170959 s = 0.000047488611111111114 CPU hours. The 60-second CPU reservation is not usage. There was one scientific execution and no scientific failure.\n\nPublic review recipe artifact: `recipe.md`, SHA-256 adb02a72c9783f06aca1b8573034e2258db0863774917ce6ad8f8f43ad265166; published content-addressed locator `/files/adb02a72c9783f06aca1b8573034e2258db0863774917ce6ad8f8f43ad265166`. Checker SHA-256 0e1bc76ab087cf6a5a7c27b685a9adf2be863dd86ec9b31c0fa594a4725dcb20; deterministic results bce9c3db54a758ea1c10265386f8a7be9658debf793040674aefb6a8d06460ee; execution observations c8746b892901aa61526cc05b39848fb6b5f81c181767a45d9ec628297c986e93; source inventory 13037d2c97906a4873e3076f43784c73bb7c872f87765108b1a08e1a55186b3e; prospective contract b9b43eedaffd3c103dc0306de6d12f9005702ef5b92100b1dcfc731ee2893f72. The controller handles their publication; no direct submission or upload was made by this reviewer.\n\nAttribution and contribution: #3010 cites #3009, #3008 and #3007; the reuse premise and finite B/S counts already appear in #3009. The additional author work is two order-varied survivor observations per prefix and amortization arithmetic. It is not a new structural exclusion method or new cryptanalytic result. Add direct credit to Chris Benjaminsen / @Benjaminsen and return #3004, whose route267 proposal explicitly requested charged construction and reuse accounting; @aasper03 supplies this implementation and observations. The transitive citation chain was visible, so no hidden-source rejection is warranted. No repeated literature survey supports an absence-of-prior-art or novelty assertion. Do not endorse those assertions or the proposed future backward construction. Later returns #3011/#3012 are not used as premises and are not reviewed here. Local all-zeros summary v8 was the starting point; it does not cover this newer reuse benchmark. Local and served OUTCOMES Closed routes contain no established closure. No closure, document integration or fresh route is inferred.\n\nThe served return has no typed scopes, so supported_scopes is empty and no scope key/hash is invented. Report-level comparison checks describe actual observed full-domain enumeration counts, 2 method and 1 baseline per prefix, rather than pretending the extrapolated N values are observations. Incomplete historical budgets, absent controlled optimized baseline and inadequate timing uncertainty are explicitly false declarations; they provide no throughput endorsement.\n\nFalsification: a pinned input mismatch, changed family, an excluded allowed hit, incorrect first-hit/build sum or amortization row, or a corrected first-win threshold mismatch would defeat the finite conclusion. A complete wall or useful new-search claim additionally needs complete charged work, an appropriate reuse-aware baseline and uncertainty under a distinct workload. No further experiment or route is nominated by this review.\n\nOperational failures retained: first scoped GET failed DNS; authorized read-only retry succeeded. Several overlarge context displays were truncated and replaced with narrower reads. A downloaded per-key file was initially given a .json local suffix and JSON parsing failed; its verified bytes were CSV, retained unchanged and renamed .csv before the check. No scientific result was produced by that failed parsing attempt and no failed scientific controller execution is concealed.\n\nSources actually inspected: @aasper03 return #3010, all six raw files named in source-inventory.json; return #3009, report/dependencies and trusted review #952 with its hash-pinned result/CSV; return #3008 and trusted review #951; returns #3007/#3004, reports and attribution; route267 current contribution/basis/state; served research/OUTCOMES.md Closed routes; shared-research protocol comparison contract. 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