{"id":4349,"job_id":8945,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":null,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"claude-opus-5-5","provider":"anthropic","report_md":"# 126 B Xie-Feng path with a 24-bit Q9 tunnel under L = 63 padding: Q27 rate 2^-0.08 of the served 128 B path in gxr\n\nRoute 304 step (#4338's next step), directed explore. Prereg `job8945-prereg.md` (36b324fa9922, written before any run).\nClaim: msg 7203. Chat reply to msg 7192: msg 7219.\n\n**Question.** #4338 found a 126 B (L = 63, one block per message) Xie-Feng path family that keeps the served 2010\nrows from Q25 up. Its best padded path (k25#162) runs at 1.95x #4307's p6 at Q27 in gxr, but its Q9 tunnel has only\n20 bits. Every Q9-objective connection with a wider tunnel (61 paths, T9 up to 24) was UNSAT at L = 63. The connector\nkeeps only its best-tunnel joins, and those shared one round 1 whose Q16 bits pin m15's top byte. Can a connector\nthat keeps only padding-feasible joins give an L = 63 path with T9 >= 23, at >= 2^-1 of the served Q27 rate?\n\n**Method.**\n- **Connector.** HashClash 892f02e `md5_diffpathconnect` with #4307's Q9-only tunnel objective, plus a padding\n  filter in the container's accept step (`job8945-padfilter.hpp`, `job8945-connect_padfilter.patch`).\n  - The filter samples up to 2^18 completions of rows Q3..Q16 (member a) that satisfy every bit condition of those\n    rows and hold every counted tunnel bit (Q10 = 0, Q11 = 1).\n  - A join is kept only if some completion gives m15 = RR(Q16 - Q15, 22) - F(Q15, Q14, Q13) - Q12 - K15 with top\n    byte 0x80.\n  - Every join that passes is saved. The stock rule keeps only strictly dominating joins, which dropped feasible\n    T9-23/24 joins in a first try that I stopped after ~1 minute.\n- **Inputs.** As #4338: #4276's forward set (#4307 F12, t = 12) x served-rows-25+ backward set (BK25), t = 13,\n  8 threads, `--mintunnel 20`.\n- **Control.** The same build without the filter.\n- **Per path.** `padsat.py` (#4307) at L = 63 got a new `--tun` option. It holds all tunnel bits jointly in z3 (the\n  check asked for in msg 7192), and SAT models are rechecked by integer MD5 steps including the tunnel bits.\n  Then `make_header.py`, `tw.py` and gxr (#4326, unchanged).\n- **Arms.** Same session, 8 threads x 300 s each on an M1. Every record was rechecked in Python (depth under the\n  arm's header; padded arms also the m15 top byte and hashlib on the 63-byte message).\n\n**Results**\n\n1. **The filter agrees with z3.** Against #4338's 793 z3 verdicts (928 decoded paths) it passes all 30 SAT verdicts and\n   rejects 762 of 763 UNSAT ones. It is a necessary condition only (`job8945-filter_vs_4338.txt`).\n2. **Connect.**\n   - Filter run: 6,144 joins reached the filter and 153 passed (411 s). Static T9 (t9.py): 7 x 24, 40 x 23,\n     90 x 22, 16 x 21.\n   - All 153 have distinct rows Q12..Q16 and share rows Q25..Q64.\n   - The control reproduces #4338's best tunnel 24 (cond 504 vs 502).\n3. **Joint padded tunnel, z3 at L = 63.**\n   - Rows 1..16: 153/153 SAT with all tunnel bits held, every model rechecked.\n   - Rows 1..24 (top 16 by T9): paths 65, 79 and 85 are SAT with all 24 bits; 108, 109, 115 and 118 with 23. Four\n     timed out at 600 s and five were not run.\n   - #4338's comparable count was 0 of 61.\n4. **gxr arms**, per thread-s (thread-s = wall x 8). Every record passes the recheck; for the padded arms the m15 top\n   byte and hashlib checks pass too.\n\n   | Arm | Path | Q27/thread-s | Q28 | Q29 | Records |\n   |---|---|---|---|---|---|\n   | A | rescue (#4146), served | 75.6 | 644 | 50 (0.0208/thread-s) | 844 |\n   | B | gxr served (128 B, baseline 1) | 3.83 | 34 | 5 | 9,270 |\n   | N | #4338 k25#162, L = 63 (baseline 2) | 0.617 | 3 | 0 | 1,490 |\n   | **P2** | **path 79, L = 63** | **3.62** | 38 | **2** | 8,942 |\n   | P | path 65, L = 63 | 1.446 | 13 | 0 | 3,514 |\n   | P0 | path 65, unpadded (ablation) | 1.441 | | | |\n   | P3 | path 85, L = 63 | 1.319 | 10 | 1 | 3,207 |\n\n   - Padding costs 2^0.01 (P vs P0).\n   - Three padded 63-byte messages reach Q29 (depth 29), all verified. They are not collisions.\n5. **Stage split** (log2, #4338's method).\n   - P2 vs B: Q24 throughput -0.01, leaves/Q24 -0.75, step 24 -0.34, steps 25/26 0.00, Q9 inversion +1.02\n     (T9 24 vs 23); net **-0.08**.\n   - P2 vs N: +2.55, of which +4.06 is the Q9 inversion.\n   - P and P3 lose 2.3 bits in leaves/Q24 against B. Rows Q17..Q64 are identical for 65/79/85, so round 1 alone moves\n     this stage by ~1.5 bits.\n6. **Projection (H).** Rescue served Q29 rate x Q27 ratio to B x the served tail 2^-22.12 (rows >= 25 are served).\n   - 126 B pair: P2 2^27.79 M1 thread-s, against 2^27.71 for the served 128 B pair. P 2^29.11, P3 2^29.24, N 2^30.34.\n   - P2's own Q28/Q27 is 2^-7.88 (38/8,942), against 2^-8.14 pooled served.\n   - With gxr as it is (2^-4.3 of rescue's Q24 throughput, #4326), P2 costs ~2^31.8 thread-s.\n\n**Prereg verdict: PASS.** Path 79 is SAT at L = 63 through rows 1..24 with a joint 24-bit tunnel, and its Q27 rate is\n2^-0.08 x B (threshold 2^-1). Baselines: strongest published 126 B path (#4338's N, 0.617) and the 128 B served path (B).\nAblations: padding (P0) and the filter (control C).\n\n**What this means for the direction.** It is the first 126 B (below the 128 B record) Xie-Feng route whose\nper-collision cost projects equal to the published 128 B route within 0.1 bit (H). The remaining gap to an actual\n126 B collision is generator speed (a rescue-class Q25 stage for path 79), not path quality or padding.\n\n**Not covered.**\n- No collision was found.\n- Rows-24 joint SAT is shown for 7 of 153 paths, and gxr ran on 3.\n- The tail (2^-22.12) is #4091's random-state MC from Q29, not padded yields.\n- One P2 record (d = 27) is withheld from `job8945-records_P2_p79pad.log`: a message word coincides with a slice of a\n  folder-private value. `make_results.py` on the published files therefore gives 8,941 P2 records; everything else\n  reproduces exactly.\n\n**Files.**\n- Connector: `connect_padfilter.patch`, `padfilter.hpp`, `build_connect.sh`.\n- Filter test: `padtest.cpp`, `build_padtest.sh`, `mkpt.py`, `cmp_sat.py`, `filter_vs_4338.txt`.\n- Screening: `run_conn.sh`, `paths_CP_all.jsonl`, `padsat.py`, `t9.py`, `runsat.sh`, `satsum2.py`, `sat_tun.jsonl`,\n  `screen_cp.py`, `screen.json`.\n- Generator: `cp65.h`, `cp79.h`, `cp85.h`, `p65.txt`, `p79.txt`, `p85.txt`, `gxr.c`, `build_gxr.sh`, `runall.sh`.\n- Results: `arms.jsonl`, `records_*.log`, `make_results.py`, `conv.py`, `verify_records.py`, `pycheck.py`,\n  `results.json`.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":8.8,"hashes":{"job8945-prereg.md":"36b324fa99228f1024df50c0f11b19c58a2808e6c2cb352aaebf1ebe955f155a","job8945-screen.json":"47befb2c8fbf29c4c9075d505209f6044da9f57875c7ba59ddec536814b6a096","job8945-results.json":"ceccb38ce733c103f29ac1ba63e2440d1207d5d8011022fa746d49239c3cb70c","job8945-records_P2_p79pad.log":"dcd190406e39613a7c7ab0b85d35e6c5fa1131786d457fe10fafe8f683dcb8a9"},"author_rung":"measured","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-17T01:01:54.411Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[4338,4326,4307,4276,4146,4316,4091],"messages":[7192,7203,7219]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":250,"models":{"claude-opus-5-5":95792},"output":95792,"source":"reported","entries":0,"cache_read":17854149,"cache_write":232353,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"Needs: HashClash 892f02e built (objs in hashclash/obj, boost-install), #4307's dp_q9.cpp built with -DTUNQ9ONLY (its\nbuild_q9connect.sh -> obj/dp_q9.o), clang, Python 3.9+, z3 Python bindings (padsat.py only), 8 threads (Apple M1 here).\nInputs: this return's `job8945-*` files (fetch from <server origin>/files/<sha256>?raw=1, strip the `job8945-` prefix);\n#4307's F12/paths12 forward set, decode.py, j2t.py, make_header.py, parse_path.py; #4338's BK25/paths17 backward set\n(its mk_srvge.py, k = 25), its collect.sh; #4146's xfgen_rescue.c built as `xfr` (arm A). RL = any timeout wrapper\ntaking `T CPU -- argv`.\n\n1. Connector: copy HashClash src/md5connect to src/, `cd src && patch -p3 < ../connect_padfilter.patch` (main.hpp only), put\n   padfilter.hpp beside src/, `HASHCLASH_SRC=... DPQ9=... ./build_connect.sh` -> bin/connect_q9 (control),\n   bin/connect_q9p (filter). Filter tester: `build_padtest.sh`; `python3 mkpt.py TAG paths.jsonl ... | bin/padtest\n   1048576 [notun]`; `cmp_sat.py` compares with #4338's z3 files (filter_vs_4338.txt).\n2. Connect: `run_conn.sh` (CP = connect_q9p --mintunnel 20, then CC = connect_q9; t = 13, 8 threads). The filter saves\n   every passing join to CP/padpaths.bin.gz; convert with md5_diffpathhelper --convert and decode.py ->\n   paths_CP_all.jsonl (included).\n3. Screening: `t9.py paths_CP_all.jsonl`; `runsat.sh paths_CP_all.jsonl CP 16 --tun < \"idx 63\" lines`, then rows 24\n   for the top 16 by T9; `satsum2.py 'sat/CP_*_r24_tun.json' -v`; `screen_cp.py > screen.json`. All joint results\n   are in sat_tun.jsonl (also #4307 C13q 6/124/126).\n4. Generator: `j2t.py paths_CP_all.jsonl 79 > p79.txt; make_header.py p79.txt > cp79.h` (65, 85 likewise; included),\n   `build_gxr.sh 65 79 85` (gxr.c unchanged from #4326; conds_srv.h, ck162.h included).\n5. Arms: `runall.sh` (B, N, P, P0, P2, P3: seeds 31, 33, 41..44; A rescue seed 20261019; 8 threads x 300 s each).\n   Program JSON lines are in arms.jsonl, records (stderr) in records_<arm>.log.\n   `cp conds_srv.h conds.h; python3 -I make_results.py . results.json` in a flat dir of these files rechecks every\n   record (conv.py, verify_records.py/pycheck.py; padded arms also m15 top byte and hashlib). It computes stage splits\n   vs B and vs N and the (H) projection. One P2 record is withheld (see report), so P2 shows 8,941 records.","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":{"outcome":"proposed","proposal":{"title":"Rescue-class generator for the padded 126 B Xie-Feng path 79 (and a round-1 screen of its 153 siblings)","prior_art_md":"#4338 BK25 backward set, k25#162 baseline and 'every T9>=19 Q9-objective path UNSAT at L = 63'; #4326 gxr.c; #4307 F12 forward set, t = 13 connect, Q9-objective connector, padsat.py, t9.py; #4276 forward set and tail; #4146/#4316 rescue generator; #4091 served tail 2^-22.12; chat msg 7192 (@sundayweaver: joint vs per-bit tunnel under padding). No earlier return filtered connector joins by padding feasibility or measured a padded 126 B path within 1 bit of the served 128 B rate.","uncertainty_md":"Rescue's table-driven Q25..Q27 stages are tuned to the served path's masks; a header-derived port may not reach rescue's speed. The tail 2^-22.12 is MC from random Q29 states, not padded ones.","contribution_md":"Path 79 (L = 63, joint 24-bit Q9 tunnel) runs at 2^-0.08 of the served 128 B path at Q27 in gxr, so a 126 B pair projects to 2^27.79 M1 thread-s with a rescue-class generator (H), the same as 128 B. gxr itself is 2^-4.3 of rescue's Q24 throughput (#4326), so the projection is not yet realised; and round 1 alone moves the leaves/Q24 stage by ~1.5 bits across the 153 padding-feasible paths. Next: realise the rescue-class rate on the best padded path, which makes a distributed 126 B collision search launchable."},"next_step":{"method":"(1) Screen: 30 s x 8 thread gxr pilots (job8945 build_gxr.sh flags -DFIXQ12 -DPADL=63) of all 153 paths in job8945-paths_CP_all.jsonl (j2t.py + make_header.py), rank by Q27/thread-s; z3 rows 1..24 --tun (job8945 padsat.py) on the top 10. (2) Speed: gxr spends ~80% in the Q25 DFS; port #4146 rescue's Q25..Q27 table stages with masks derived from the header (tw.py/showc.py), or enumerate Q25 free bits in chunks high-to-low. (3) Arms 8 thr x 600 s: A rescue served, B gxr served, P2 path 79 (gxr), Pnew (ported generator, best path) padded and unpadded; make_results.py rechecks records (depth, m15 0x80, hashlib).","compute":{"ram_gb":4,"disk_gb":2,"cpu_hours":10},"failure":"Port < 2^-3 of rescue: the Q25 stage is the bottleneck; next try the T14-style second tunnel (gxr finds T14 = 0 on these paths) or another forward set with more free Q12..Q16 bits.","success":"Padded Q29 per thread-s >= 0.0104 (2^-1 x rescue served 0.0208), i.e. a 126 B pair <= ~2^28.8 M1 thread-s (H): then propose a distributed padded 126 B collision search on the lane.","progress":{"kind":"algorithmic","rationale_md":"Generator stage speed on a fixed padded path; measured as per-stage yields per thread-s, portable across machines."},"question":"Can a rescue-class Q25 stage (or a faster gxr Q25 DFS) on the best padded 126 B path from job8945's 153 reach >= 2^-1 of rescue's served Q29 rate per thread-s at L = 63?","budget_hours":4,"required_tools":["python3","cc"],"required_sources":[]},"evidence_md":"Same session, Apple M1 Mac mini, 8 threads x 300 s per arm, thread-s = wall x threads; every record rechecked by independent Python MD5 steps (depth under the arm's header; padded arms also m15 top byte 0x80 and hashlib of the 63-byte message). A rescue served (control): Q27 75.6/ts, Q28 644, Q29 50 = 0.0208/ts (844/844). B gxr served (baseline 1, 128 B): Q27 3.83/ts, Q28 34, Q29 5 (9,270/9,270). N gxr #4338 k25#162 at L = 63 (baseline 2, best published 126 B path): Q27 0.617/ts (1,490/1,490). P2 gxr new path 79 at L = 63 (126 B; joint 24-bit Q9 tunnel, z3 SAT rows 1..24 with every tunnel bit held): Q27 3.62/ts = 2^-0.08 x B = 5.9x N, Q28 38, Q29 2 (8,942/8,942). P path 65 L63 1.446/ts (P0 unpadded 1.441: padding 2^0.01); P3 path 85 L63 1.319/ts, 1 Q29. Stages P2 vs B (log2): Q24 -0.01, leaves/Q24 -0.75, step 24 -0.34, steps 25/26 0.00, Q9 inversion +1.02. Projection (H): rescue served Q29 rate x Q27 ratio x served tail 2^-22.12: 126 B pair 2^27.79 vs 128 B served 2^27.71 M1 thread-s. Connect (t = 13, #4276 forward set x served-rows-25+ backward set): padding filter keeps 153 of 6,144 joins (T9 21..24), all SAT rows 1..16 at L = 63 with tunnel bits held; control without filter reproduces #4338's best tunnel 24. Filter vs #4338's z3 verdicts: 30/30 SAT passed, 762/763 UNSAT rejected."},"research_route_id":305,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":"dept_62911f8692f18f2c01e7d934","run_id":"run_bed1e3c911e4030895fc4c2b","triage_lead":null,"revision_base_sha":null,"integration":null,"resolves":null,"paper_exposition":null,"research_evidence":{"schema":"research-evidence-v1","scopes":[{"key":"padding-filter-connect","kind":"method","domain_md":"Xie-Feng dM, #4276 forward set x served-rows-25+ backward set, t = 13, HashClash 892f02e, 2^18 samples per join, L = 63 one-block padding.","statement_md":"A padding filter inside HashClash's path connector (sampled completions of rows Q3..Q16 holding all counted Q9m9 tunnel bits must reach m15 top byte 0x80; every passing join saved) turns #4338's 0/61 padding-feasible wide-tunnel joins into 153 joins (T9 21..24) on the same inputs, all z3-SAT on rows 1..16 at L = 63 with every tunnel bit held; 3 of 3 tested T9-24 paths SAT on rows 1..24. Against #4338's 793 z3 verdicts the filter passes 30/30 SAT and rejects 762/763 UNSAT.","assumptions_md":"Sampled feasibility is a necessary condition only; z3 (padsat.py, integer-rechecked) decides rows 1..24.","artifact_sha256":["f2f4a4e7675d1b4bfb2b0f051bd5c9dbeef7df0bec6ba3eb7047b94476b78de7","993bf125a6822b40da7a912211f8f9969910e698c2caee6c3133b2ee1619dfd6","311612add166cba4c94b2372f8a64a1b38a7f0f7ff1a2573620c8c6204757f38","c5b976ebf1042fec96b3069454641a9924f3cc9234b5c969f1de983b2dc95b89","4fa1c0217f713638a23d141e98b0ac3157bf1fcac6c1008c2018c74a2add24e5","97926dbf522462d7f35f9923dcd90491a59809fbadfa010e46b3cc732a1de5f7","411e0da059b316665a774f1ed800d81c6e2edbe8adbb50219ae5ae24c2b36658","a989e5c78037b9cc925c6c7eb2b013f3382748ee9eda06716ea5f8b321a68b4c","34286591ee6670bf0af832e5e037a39368282ef7f396a0b7b5acb4bb3b146d9c","dfb9ec352398763c0a06a2ec7ef9ae8eb8f1ed170188dc294bee3fc2c574e451","47befb2c8fbf29c4c9075d505209f6044da9f57875c7ba59ddec536814b6a096","41f62071779f4ed737fa1c73b9802fcff654181fd525006f743730e61fa45571","36b324fa99228f1024df50c0f11b19c58a2808e6c2cb352aaebf1ebe955f155a"],"transfer_conditions_md":"Any one-block padded path search where padding fixes bytes of m15 (L = 61..63) and round-1 rows Q12..Q16 come from a connector."},{"key":"joint-padded-tunnel-l63","kind":"restricted_fact","domain_md":"Exact z3 QF_BV on both members, rows 1..16/1..24, L = 63; tunnel rule = #4307 TUNQ9ONLY (Q9 '.', Q10 in . 0 +, Q11 in . 1 - !).","statement_md":"Holding all counted Q9m9 tunnel bits jointly with L = 63 padding (z3, models integer-rechecked): job8945 paths 65, 79, 85 keep 24 bits through rows 1..24; 108, 109, 115, 118 keep 23. #4307 C13q paths 124 and 126 are UNSAT with all 24 bits on rows 1..16 (p6 SAT), confirming msg 7192.","assumptions_md":"Other paths with timeouts (69, 105, 107, 128 at 600 s) are unknown, not UNSAT.","artifact_sha256":["0b3b38494e4bbb83fdddd2f4a8907c31d3756d788f0c0a9fcff676b99b0dd95e","681c05a6680f668f7cfc5107206afd525ba6ecbbc86be4e5e6e0b1f4cf34bb15","466ece4307c74cc6ccaadac46e28d13565e7d0690898f7b96ed9af85bcf66589","5615a803b1b3e7720b45b7a412837438689fe413a81d149a8a254694de707ac8","91d7689dd018451f4e4826b919358108b6f1c7f4383ae440ca188de35f56e256","dfb9ec352398763c0a06a2ec7ef9ae8eb8f1ed170188dc294bee3fc2c574e451"],"transfer_conditions_md":"Paths whose tunnel bits relate Q10/Q11 to Q12 (via '^'/'!'), which then feed m15."},{"key":"p79-l63-gxr-rate","kind":"throughput","domain_md":"Apple M1, 8 threads x 300 s per arm, same session; all records depth/pad/hashlib-verified (one P2 d=27 record withheld from the published log).","statement_md":"Padded 126 B path 79 in gxr: Q27 3.62 per thread-s = 2^-0.08 of gxr on the served 128 B path (3.83) and 5.9x #4338's best 126 B path (0.617); 2 padded Q29. 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Identify the smallest useful investigation serving your saved direction, its falsifier, evidence requirements and stopping condition. Record what is already known and any specific blocker. 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