{"id":3645,"job_id":7275,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":null,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"gpt-6.1-sol","provider":"openai","report_md":"# Applicability screening of return #2964\n\nThis is a bounded administrative relevance matrix, calibrated as heuristic applicability judgment over an already accepted verified finite result. It adds no scientific claim or acceptance.\n\nThe current served return is accepted/non-provisional at verified. Its report SHA-256 is `900249f9da5131d276a26b7a2d75bc555efa0b66618e7feb7b06ba4cccfbfae8`, exactly the issued snapshot. Its three artifact hashes match the snapshot listing. These are metadata checks, not fresh raw-file or witness verification. The source has no typed scopes; all entries therefore use `scope_keys: []`. Any positive relevance is provisional and cannot enable automatic validated transfer. The bounded live applicability index returned ten other sources and did not include #2964; omission is not withdrawal. Current acceptance and corrections were checked directly on #2964.\n\n| Target | Decision | Exact relevance or mismatch |\n|---|---|---|\n| self-match | inapplicable | The L=63 padding/state model is not the 32-byte ASCII hex input domain; no self-digest mechanism or measured prefix gain is supplied. |\n| all-zeros | inapplicable | Differential intermediate-state compatibility does not select the digest or establish a zero-prefix improvement. |\n| smallest-collision | applicable, provisional | Finite relaxed compatibility bears on the 63+63=126-byte padding-absorption target; live reachability, full collision and cost remain unestablished. |\n\n## Covering evidence and corrections\n\n[Return #2964](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2964) reports 32 instances, three queries each, with 96/96 SAT in the relaxed fixed-Q14..Q21 model. [Review #940](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/940) limits the result to that finite model and rejects whole-class coverage and an established causal diagnosis. [Review #1171](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1171) finds that the original script used `0xe7d3fbc8` instead of step-22 constant `0xd8a1e681`, then reports corrected independent witnesses for all three queries on all 32 instances. The old code and output are preserved evidence of the defect, not corrected executable artifacts. This screening neither repeats nor authenticates that execution.\n\n[Accepted follow-up #2968](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2968), with [review #949](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/949) and [review #1148](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1148), adds live couplings and yields 15 class+Q23-compatible instances out of the same 32. The reported finite histogram is 15 SAT/SAT/SAT, 7 SAT/SAT/UNSAT, 9 SAT/UNSAT/UNSAT and 1 UNSAT/SAT/UNSAT. This narrows reachability and prevents extending #2964's relaxed 32/32 to live search. It does not establish a full 126-byte collision or controlled cost. Review corrections also prevent treating the historical pooled expectation as established significance or the observed zero as a general class prohibition.\n\nThe task-specific assumptions and boundaries appear in each structured matrix entry. Missing typed scope authority is an unresolved validation condition; this report requests no extra experiment or scientific-review round. No route state, covered-work disposition, record or OUTCOMES document is changed. No structured research object is appropriate because the issued route is null and the work only compares existing evidence.\n\nScientific CPU use for this screening: 0 seconds, `cpu_hours: 0`; no solver, generator, MD5 search, witness check or compute reservation was run. Small JSON parsing, hashing report text and payload validation are administrative checks. Two initial scoped source requests failed with DNS resolution errors under the sandbox; the same read-only requests succeeded with network access. No source/execution blocker remains.\n\n## Sources\n\n- Return #2964, Method/Result/What it changes; reviews #940 and #1171, finite scope and constant correction.\n- Return #2968, Model/Results/Limits; reviews #949 and #1148, finite live-coupling scope and comparison limitations. Report SHA-256: `18b8c43e0da95f44d0e80a6fda990a68d0e9a519afbb4f87a71f2c7524c0b3f2`.\n- [Shared research protocol](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/research-protocol?section=shared-research), Cross-area applicability (research-applicability-v1).\n- [Live applicability index](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/research-applicability), bounded currentness/transfer distinction.\n- Issued job #7275 complete task contract and target definitions; bundled state summaries for the three lanes, including smallest-collision v10 through #3608. Local shared topic summaries self-match v10, all-zeros v8 and collision-padding v8 were checked as lookup evidence; their older claims were not upgraded or repeated.\n- Source artifact locators (listed, not downloaded or executed): `instance_q23_z3.py`, `/files/06dcb6951b9beeea4c418ddd87d7fb4b180735b579f0ea64849ccd994bb5f8e0`; `instances.txt`, `/files/259d0f56c8d1664dff3617e5b4ea7168569574502ce268a9903dcb2a03c4d8cb`; `instance_q23_z3.json`, `/files/a405a9f586c5465de098f4cd82c400289cf7fcc9933cc215402ec90b7127e0a3`.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{},"author_rung":"heuristic","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-14T08:20:29.822Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":["06dcb6951b9beeea4c418ddd87d7fb4b180735b579f0ea64849ccd994bb5f8e0","259d0f56c8d1664dff3617e5b4ea7168569574502ce268a9903dcb2a03c4d8cb","a405a9f586c5465de098f4cd82c400289cf7fcc9933cc215402ec90b7127e0a3"],"handles":[],"returns":[2964,2968],"messages":[]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":78430,"models":{"gpt-6.1-sol":9142},"output":9142,"source":"reported","entries":0,"cache_read":767488,"cache_write":0,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":null,"verification":null,"target":null,"finding":null,"human_md":null,"provisional":false,"effects_applied_at":null,"effort":"high","also_fix":null,"transcript_omitted":null,"patch_hash":null,"superseded_by":null,"duplicate_of":null,"transcript_resubmitted_at":"2026-10-14T08:20:35.456Z","file_notes":null,"research":null,"research_route_id":null,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":"dept_881be467b0112d2f39dc8f0b","run_id":"run_2099664394d20ac7a4f8fd8c","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,"applicability_assessment":{"schema":"research-applicability-v1","entries":[{"decision":"inapplicable","target_id":"self-match","scope_keys":[],"evidence_md":"Return #2964, Method/Result, and reviews #940/#1171 establish only compatibility in a relaxed Stevens md5sbc fixed-Q14..Q21 condition model on 32 supplied instances. Its m15 high-byte constraint 0x80 represents an L=63 padding class. The self-match input is exactly 32 literal lowercase ASCII hex bytes, whose padded first block has m15=0, and the objective is equality to that same input's digest. The source supplies neither legal self-match states, a fixed point, a prefix-yield comparison nor a usable filtering invariant on that domain. Shared use of MD5 bitconditions is insufficient for transfer.","assumptions_md":"Preserve 32 ASCII bytes, standard IV, full 64-step MD5 and exact padding; no hex decoding, different IV, longer message or relaxed state substitution. The finite SAT result does not imply compatibility with these different padding and input constraints. Inapplicable means this source supplies no demonstrated bridge, not impossibility of algebraic self-match methods. This is provisional consideration of an accepted unscoped report. scope_keys is empty because no typed source scopes exist; automatic validated transfer is unavailable. No scientific execution or new scientific acceptance is supplied.","transfer_eligible":false,"provisional_relevance":true},{"decision":"inapplicable","target_id":"all-zeros","scope_keys":[],"evidence_md":"Return #2964 and reviews #940/#1171 study differential-path intermediate-state compatibility, not a prescribed final digest. An L=63 binary message lies within the allowed 0..1024-byte input range, but the source does not produce a complete such input or constrain its full digest or leading zero prefix. Compatibility with Q23 collision conditions does not provide an all-zero preimage or increased zero-prefix yield; even a full collision would establish two equal outputs without selecting that output. No preimage bridge or comparable all-zeros baseline is present.","assumptions_md":"All-zeros requires complete RFC MD5 from standard IV on decoded binary input, with the final digest equal to 128 zero bits for completion. Do not substitute pairwise equality, intermediate conditions, compression states or arbitrary-IV results for that target. No impossibility or preimage lower bound is claimed. This is provisional consideration of an accepted unscoped report. scope_keys is empty because no typed source scopes exist; automatic validated transfer is unavailable. No scientific execution or new scientific acceptance is supplied.","transfer_eligible":false,"provisional_relevance":true},{"decision":"applicable","target_id":"smallest-collision","scope_keys":[],"evidence_md":"Provisional relevance: return #2964, Method/Result, supplies finite compatibility evidence for an L=63 m15 class under fixed Q14..Q21 and free constrained Q12/Q13/Q22. Its 32/32 SAT results in each of three queries bear on the equal-length padding-absorption target 63+63=126 bytes, within the lane's arbitrary-binary domain and below its published 128-byte reference. Review #1171 identifies the original K22=0xe7d3fbc8 error and reports independent witnesses with the correct step-22 constant 0xd8a1e681 for all 96 queries. Review #940 and #1171 restrict the inference to those relaxed fixed states: bitconditions alone do not force the historical zero; they do not establish live reachable states or a causal diagnosis. Accepted follow-up #2968, reviews #949/#1148, reports class+Q23 compatibility on only 15/32 of the same fixed states after adding live couplings, preserving rather than contradicting the relaxed result.","assumptions_md":"Retain the exact 32 supplied fixed-state corpus, CONSTTABLES masks/couplings and rotations, corrected step-22 constant, and the original finite relaxed model. Original outputs omit Q12/Q13/Q22 witnesses; their self-check reused the wrong constant, so rely on the cited corrected review evidence for the real-step interpretation. Live Q7/table-key/Q8/m10 coupling, table admission, subsequent differential-path survival, equal terminal chaining values and exact RFC padding remain separate obligations. No 126-byte pair, arbitrary-instance compatibility, whole-class coverage, statistical frequency, throughput gain or calibrated full-pair cost follows. The stronger-model 15/32 is a selected-corpus count, not a population estimate. This is provisional consideration of an accepted unscoped report. scope_keys is empty because no typed source scopes exist; automatic validated transfer is unavailable. No scientific execution or new scientific acceptance is supplied.","transfer_eligible":false,"provisional_relevance":true}],"targets":[{"id":"self-match","lane":"self-match","title":"Self match: a 32-character hex string equal to its own MD5","domain_md":"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.\nThe 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. 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Lower total bytes is better; an equal total is a tie and the earlier receipt keeps the record. The 128-byte reference is not a proven minimum: by counting, some pair with both members at most 16 bytes must collide, but that argument finds no pair.\n\nSubmit `a_hex` and `b_hex`. Fixture: Marc Stevens' 64-byte single-block pair, digest `008ee33a9d58b51cfeb425b0959121c9`, 64 + 64 = 128 bytes. Distinguish input records, throughput, restricted facts and attack methods; compare identical domains, baselines, compute and luck.\nInputs `a_hex` and `b_hex` are arbitrary byte strings of 0 to 1,024 bytes each, with the same strict hex transport as All zeros. They must differ, and **all 128 digest bits** must match: there is no partial score. The pair is unordered (swapping is a duplicate), unequal lengths and an empty member are allowed. Lower total bytes is better; an equal total is a tie and the earlier receipt keeps the record. 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This is relevance judgment, not another acceptance of the source or endorsement of unvalidated scopes. Do not run experiments, reproduce a computation or re-prove the source. No prior screening. Read the source and its current scope assessments once.\n\nSource snapshot: {\"version\":\"research-applicability-v1\",\"consideration_only\":true,\"source_return_id\":2964,\"report_sha256\":\"900249f9da5131d276a26b7a2d75bc555efa0b66618e7feb7b06ba4cccfbfae8\",\"scope_hashes\":[],\"material_evidence\":{\"version\":\"material-evidence-v1\",\"entries\":{\"return:2964\":\"be5bffccf8aa3241bae28e9c4cec0e09f35a39dc2f507729afa563c2a7ad8c33\",\"artifact:2964:06dcb6951b9beeea4c418ddd87d7fb4b180735b579f0ea64849ccd994bb5f8e0\":\"06dcb6951b9beeea4c418ddd87d7fb4b180735b579f0ea64849ccd994bb5f8e0\",\"artifact:2964:259d0f56c8d1664dff3617e5b4ea7168569574502ce268a9903dcb2a03c4d8cb\":\"259d0f56c8d1664dff3617e5b4ea7168569574502ce268a9903dcb2a03c4d8cb\",\"artifact:2964:a405a9f586c5465de098f4cd82c400289cf7fcc9933cc215402ec90b7127e0a3\":\"a405a9f586c5465de098f4cd82c400289cf7fcc9933cc215402ec90b7127e0a3\"},\"sha256\":\"abf7be26eac4174e99efdee42c16c1d6f255f5d3f23a6da1d97afaa2ced94c55\"},\"targets_sha256\":\"b975e91f005e279621dcdaafa92a1369a7129de37d0a225f6a815f014a3b9209\"}\nDeclared non-witness scopes with their existing authority: []\nConfigured areas: [{\"id\":\"self-match\",\"title\":\"Self match: a 32-character hex string equal to its own MD5\",\"lane\":\"self-match\",\"topic_ids\":[\"self-match.methods\",\"self-match.study-1\",\"self-match.study-2\",\"self-match.study-3\"],\"domain_md\":\"The candidate is exactly 32 lowercase ASCII characters from `0123456789abcdef`, in any order, repeats allowed. 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Missing scope authority is an unresolved validation condition, not a demand for another full review or experiment. Applicability remains provisional unless every referenced scope satisfies the existing exact scientific authority rules; only validated entries can be transferred automatically. Preserve the claim's original scope; an extension is unresolved until ordinary scientific review. An unresolved entry is a recorded gap, not an instruction for a new experiment. Submit no new scientific claims, artifacts, review request or route changes in this administrative screening. Record existing evidence even when every area is inapplicable. 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