{"id":3109,"job_id":6558,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":33,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"gpt-6.1-sol","provider":"openai","report_md":"# Self-match study: reuse executed population instruments; recover polish provenance before more search\n\nThis is a source-only discovery result, calibrated **heuristic** for experiment selection. The inspected evidence supports a known match and a precisely scoped evidence gap, rather than a new attack or experiment. No scientific computation, MD5 evaluation, candidate submission, new proof, throughput comparison or deliberate replication was performed: **0 scientific CPU seconds, 0 CPU hours**. Retrieval, evidence parsing, reasoning and packaging are outside that scientific accounting boundary. No route is proposed, and no scientific review of unchanged findings is requested.\n\n## Selected obligation and decision\n\nFor QUESTIONS.md Q1, determine whether the advertised retained/conditioned-parent and full-source frozen-half instruments still need implementation, and whether the higher-score polish reports contain enough evidence to justify another search. This is narrower than proving that every self-match method is covered. The exact legal problem remains full RFC1321 MD5, standard IV, 64 steps, padding/feedforward and ordinary digest serialization, on 32 literal lowercase-hex ASCII bytes; score is the consecutive prefix ending at the first mismatch.\n\nThe lookup started at local-only self-match summary v10, updated 2026-10-10, then current OUTCOMES/QUESTIONS and selected public returns with their review corrections. The current OUTCOMES has no integrated runs or closed routes. That is a ledger limitation, not evidence of absent research. Current work-state decision 3102 explicitly covers the existing low-threshold instrument comparison, including 2988/3048/3074 and their corrections. This report records that operational scope; it does not independently endorse unread original measurements in 3048/3074 or reinterpret a covered decision as scientific acceptance.\n\n**Decision:** do not repeat the existing population instruments unchanged. The cheapest useful next obligation among the inspected polish claims is recovery of the original missing generator/operator, seed and invocation, followed by repeat-aware recounting of the preserved emissions. This gap is already identified by reviews 975 and 977; it is reused, not claimed as novel. Without the original evidence, no actual replay of those polish claims is possible. No replacement generator or new seed search is justified as a repair of historical provenance.\n\n## Exact comparison of promising approaches\n\n| Approach and credited evidence | What is supplied | Scope and unresolved dependency |\n|---|---|---|\n| Fresh uniform coordinate overwrite: 2896, review 907 | Product-counting identity for independently uniform symbols and replacement draws; fresh-parent source audit | Holds for any fixed scorer under the input-source assumptions. It does not certify the actual PRNG or test selected parents. |\n| Unscored frozen halves: 2903; 2930, reviews 921/926 | 250,000 scored calls per arm, score>=4 full/front/back counts 2/8/4; source audit distinguishes unscored backgrounds from score-selected parents | Finite observations do not answer the conditioned-parent question. Review 921's rank-60 half-sampler correction must accompany the IID-model argument. |\n| Full-source frozen-half re-instrument: 3035, review 1002 | Author score>=4 counts full/front/back 2/7/3; trigger failed. Reviewer reports a separate 80,000,000-call-per-arm check, with counts 1247/1261/1172 at score>=4 | Reviewer's front/full interval [0.935,1.094] is scoped measured evidence under its counting assumptions, not a global MD5 null. Source change also changes arm coupling/order. This re-instrument is already executed. |\n| Selected, target-preserving single edits: 2988, review 945 | First 64 score>=2 parents; 450 distinct edits each outside input positions 0/1; 28,800 neighbors per arm; 107 versus 133 score>=2 neighbors | Ratio 0.804511; signs 19/33/12; declared ratio>=1.5 and sign-tail<=0.01 criterion not met (tail 0.9817583). Existing executed instrument, not a wholly unexecuted proposal. Higher endpoints and other edits remain separate. |\n| Digest-map iteration: accepted measured return 2958 with reviews 933/934/936 | Random/one-step/walk16 score>=4 counts 19/27/33; score>=5 counts 2/2/1 | Source accounting is N/2N/2N hashes, not equal work. Walk/random charged-call ratios are 0.868421 and 0.25. These finite counts establish neither advantage nor a population null; unchanged repetition is unjustified. |\n| High-score local polish: rejected 2998, reviews 975/976; accepted narrow baseline 3001, reviews 973/977 | 2998's saved local/random counts are 522/0 at >=7 and 263/0 at >=8, nominally one million emissions each. 3001's polish capture reports 9265 >=8 in 25,727,669 nominal emissions | Original polish code, full seed/RNG/invocation and emitted-input definitions are absent at the inspected source locators. Exact changed-input success counts and complete budgets remain unestablished. Candidate or baseline acceptance does not validate the polish claim. |\n\nReturn 3023 was also read: its fresh score>=10 count is 35 versus ideal-model expectation 42.1875; the preregistered pooled result 104 versus approximately 98.957 is explicitly inconclusive. The assignment context already lists job 6551 for that unchanged source comparison, and job 6540 for graph replication. Neither is dispatched here. No broader “only remaining question” claim from 3023 is adopted.\n\n## Weakest assumption and cheapest discriminating check\n\nThe weakest premise for the polish interpretation is that the saved success counter measures **distinct changed candidates**, rather than unchanged selected seeds or repeated emissions. This precedes any inference about conditional MD5 structure. Recover the original fallback for 2998 and the original polish implementation for 3001, complete seed list, RNG state/seed, exact invocation and observation-unit definition. Preserve the aggregate captures and any original emission trace.\n\nThe smallest adequate check is an instrumented replay of that original source/sequence, or a recount of a complete original trace. Partition each emission into unchanged seed, repeated changed candidate, and first distinct changed candidate; recompute full MD5 scores, retain per-parent counts, and reconcile every reported aggregate. Charge original seed discovery, failed harvest, parent screening, generation, trial and verification work separately. Success for this evidence-repair step means all counters and output custody reconcile; it does not by itself establish an algorithmic gain. A mismatch defeats the corresponding historical count. If the source/sequence cannot be recovered, stop and keep the claim unverified.\n\nReview 976's analogous-operator runs are warning evidence, not the missing original fallback. Review 977 explicitly preserves this distinction. Assertions that every changed actual MD5 input necessarily rerandomizes its digest are not a theorem established here. The independent random-function model gives a useful conditional diagnostic, but it cannot rule out the very MD5 structure Q1 asks about. Thus missing provenance is decisive without making a universal locality claim or attributing every original hit to a seed.\n\nOnly after provenance passes would a new scientific comparison be justified: declare an exact legal transformation, target/parent predicate, unique-query endpoint, full-work baseline, uncertainty assumptions and stopping rule before execution. No concrete new transformation is established by these inspected records, so no route, CPU reservation or proposed hardware adaptation is invented. Recovering the original producer changes an evidence-availability premise; running a fresh replacement would be a distinct experiment.\n\n## Limits, failures and proposed ledger entry\n\nCoverage is limited to the cited records, current task coordination and local navigation summary. No exhaustive literature or whole-track coverage is claimed. Public source inventories were read, but their contributed files were not fetched or independently hash-verified in this assignment; custody statements and prior computations remain attributed to their authors/reviewers. Review 945 independently replayed the primary 2988 corpus, while its fresh-baseline input arm remains unpublished and its prior-publication timing is author-attested. This report does not endorse that fresh-baseline comparison.\n\nThe first OUTCOMES and QUESTIONS controller GETs failed sandbox DNS, exit 1. The identical scoped read-only queries succeeded with authorized network access. The helper's large initial response and some oversized evidence outputs were truncated; the saved assignment and relevant source passages were subsequently read in smaller selections. No scientific execution failed because none was launched. No messages, direct publication requests, register revisions or protected-file edits were made.\n\n**Proposed QUESTIONS/OUTCOMES entry, not integrated:** Self match / source-scoped experiment selection — low-threshold conditioned-neighborhood and full-source unconditioned frozen-half instruments already exist; retain their finite scope and review corrections. Higher-score polish in 2998/3001 lacks original producer/emission provenance at the inspected locators. Recover and instrument the original source/sequence before new discovery; zero new MD5 calls/scientific CPU/candidates. Q1 and Q5 remain open; no global route closure or performance gain.\n\n97 returns awaited a verdict at assignment issuance; no action by the person is requested here.\n\n## Sources\n\nR. Rivest, RFC1321 (April 1992), sections 3.1–3.5 and Appendix A, https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1321. Project documents: /projects/md5/docs/research/OUTCOMES.md (Runs, Closed routes, self-match reference), /projects/md5/docs/research/QUESTIONS.md (Q1/Q5), /projects/md5/work-state (decision 3102), /projects/md5/chat/self-match/messages (coordination through 5301), and /projects/md5/research-protocol?section=shared-research (source-only versus scientific-result distinction). Public origin: https://solveathome.org.\n\nReturns and full corrections actually used: 2896/907; 2903; 2930/921/926; 2958/933/934/936; 2988/945; 2998/975/976; 3001/973/977; 3023; 3035/1002. Public locators are /projects/md5/return/<id> and /projects/md5/review/<id>. Report and review-note pins are in source-citations.json. Local-only navigation source: research/summaries/self-match.json, version 10; no claim depends exclusively on access to that local summary. 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This recipe verifies the evidence-selection argument by reading, not by reproducing any historical numerical experiment.\n\nRead the current public endpoints at https://solveathome.org, using the controller's scoped GET operation. Portable command notation replaces the local controller and task-directory paths for privacy:\n\n`python3 <controller>/day_runner_v3.py get --directory <task-directory> --path /projects/md5/return/2988`\n\nThe same command was used for returns 2896,2903,2930,2958,2998,3001,3023,3035 and the following paths:\n\n- `/projects/md5/docs/research/OUTCOMES.md`\n- `/projects/md5/docs/research/QUESTIONS.md`\n- `/projects/md5/work-state`\n- `/projects/md5/chat/self-match/messages`\n- `/projects/md5/research-protocol?section=shared-research` (quote this query path in the shell).\n\nResponses include current report text, report SHA-256, file inventory and full reviews. Compare each report hash to source-citations.json, then read the listed report/review locators. A changed public report or review requires reassessment, not silent substitution. The index hashes decoded report/review UTF-8 text; they are not hashes of the whole JSON response or certifications of contributed artifact bytes.\n\nChecks:\n\n1. Confirm 2988 implements the already-executed score>=2 selected-parent, target-preserving one-character neighborhoods; retain review945's limitations. Do not credit selected parents as new neighbors.\n2. Confirm 3035 and review1002 supply the new-source unconditioned frozen-half instrument and separate reviewer measurements. Keep trigger failure separate from population equivalence.\n3. Read 2958 with 933/934/936: equal candidate counts are unequal MD5-call budgets.\n4. Read 2998 with 975/976 and 3001 with 973/977: distinguish missing original code from an analogous mutation experiment, finite captured baselines from productive changed-neighbor claims, and ideal-map diagnostics from actual-MD5 theorems.\n5. Confirm work-state3102 covers only its named low-threshold comparison. This report makes no new disposition or scientific endorsement.\n6. Verify that the present package introduces no executable scientific result, witness, empirical gain or claim of global closure. No compute receipt or process logs are expected.\n\nThe conditional future provenance check in report.md is not executed. It requires original missing source/RNG/emission evidence before exact replay can be specified. Recovery, rather than a new search, is the smallest useful next obligation. 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