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These are source/metadata checks, not scientific replication or an independent rehash of downloaded source artifacts.\n\n| Target | Decision | Exact bridge or mismatch |\n|---|---|---|\n| self-match | inapplicable | d2 differential-path bases/IHVs do not implement or evaluate the exact 32-literal-ASCII-byte fixed-point family. |\n| all-zeros | inapplicable | collision-path identity does not target a prescribed full digest or its zero prefix. |\n| smallest-collision | applicable, provisional only | relevant d2 collision-search implementation technique and historical timing evidence, limited to the original pipeline and device conditions. No shorter collision or validated scope transfer. |\n\nAll entries use scope_keys=[] because the accepted source has no typed scopes. Missing scope authority remains unresolved; no scope is invented. The detailed per-target evidence and conditions are in applicability_assessment.\n\nAccepted observations reused, not recomputed: q20 accounts for 93.9936% / 95.6768% of generator events on A380/UHD 770. Profile seed 90310001 gives 47,497 bases on each, range 992–1,483. Shape-selection seed is 90310002. Captured multiset comparisons are 20/20 and 14/14 equal. Identity seeds 90310011/12 show 47,471/46,821 bases, 13,561/13,083 solutions and 27,163/25,876 d2 records; the best A380 package check covers 118,632 bases. These are finite historical checks with uncapped/saturation qualifications from review #1658.\n\nHistorical rate observations: A380 baseline 490,137 IHVs in 270.50 seconds versus variant 504,686 in 270.43; UHD baseline 84,217 in 272.58 versus variant 85,539 in 273.30. The six paired-seed mean gains are 2.999600% (SD 0.094995 percentage points) and 1.302969% (SD 0.177642 points), six positive pairs each. The paired seed window is the uncertainty unit. A/B seeds are 90310021–26 and 90310031–36, nominal 45-second windows with final-batch overshoot and alternating order. All full-d2 and sol_cap_hits counts are zero. These are verified block-1 IHV rates, not collision rates or fresh independent digest trials.\n\nPreserved corrections: the A380 generator reduction is 10.8945% against the four-baseline mean; the source table instead uses base0. UHD reduction 4.4630% fails the ≥10% generator target. Shape-only production-kernel reductions were already 7.2361%/2.8844% against base0. Kernel/shape/host effects are confounded in the end-to-end A/B. The total 1086.81 timed A/B seconds excludes setup/compilation, preprocessing/selection, profile and identity work. Source cpu_hours=0 establishes no zero host cost. No complete-cost, strongest-baseline, q20c-specific, cross-device or contemporary best-rate claim follows.\n\nPrior-work lookup began with the latest local self-match v10, all-zeros v8 and collision-padding v8 summaries (2026-10-10), including their scopes and limitations. None mentions #4395; their older surveys were not expanded. The source report and its current reviews supply the relevant newer evidence. Dependencies #4107, #4117, #4322, #4324 and #4389 remain the source's attributed prerequisites, not newly checked results of this screening.\n\nNo scientific compute command was run: actual new scientific CPU seconds=0, cpu_hours=0. No experiment, GPU run, proof rerun, route proposal/change, document revision, new artifact or scientific review request is submitted. Three initial read-only requests failed with DNS resolution error Errno 8; the same GETs succeeded with network access, HTTP 200. Only this access failure was retried. Administrative source checks all passed.\n\nSources: [return #4395](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/4395), complete report and attached current reviews; [review #1604](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1604); [review #1658](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1658), especially Recomputed observations and Boundaries; [message #7270](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/chat/messages/7270), supplied in the source response; [shared-research protocol](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/research-protocol?section=shared-research), Cross-area applicability; [live applicability index](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/research-applicability). 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Review #1658 (https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1658, Recomputed observations/Boundaries) identifies its counted unit as verified block-1 solutions/IHVs, not candidate full digests or fixed points. The issued self-match domain requires exactly 32 literal lowercase-hex ASCII bytes and a leading equality prefix against that same input. Neither that legal candidate family nor that output event is measured or constructed by this source. Its collision-path u interval cannot be imported as a fixed-point filter. Generic profiling and multiset checking are methodological inspiration, not an established self-match contribution.","assumptions_md":"Inapplicable describes the scientific contribution as accepted, not a universal impossibility of adapting implementation ideas. No self-match candidate, score, odds gain or throughput gain is implied. 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Historical Intel A380/UHD 770 combined-package gains are +3.00% ±0.09 / +1.30% ±0.18 IHV/s (sample SD of six paired-seed ratios), with generator reductions 10.8945% / 4.4630% against repeated-baseline means. This is relevant to collision-search implementation work in the lane, including preserving full-output identity gates, but does not improve the 128-total-byte reference or establish any full collision. Review #1658 reports all full-d2 counts zero. No typed source scope exists; automatic validated transfer is unavailable.","assumptions_md":"Relevance retains the original differential path/path2.txt, baseline dependencies #4107/#4117/#4322/#4324 and route-plan attribution #4389, not independently re-inspected here. Historical hardware: Arc A380/UHD Graphics 770, Intel runtime 24.52, Linux 6.14, i7-12700 host. Combined changes include q20c, launch shape, host and A380 Q19_WG; q20c-alone end-to-end advantage and strongest tuned host-matched baseline advantage are unestablished. 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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.\"},{\"id\":\"all-zeros\",\"title\":\"All zeros: an input of at most 1 KiB whose MD5 is 32 zeros\",\"lane\":\"all-zeros\",\"topic_ids\":[\"all-zeros.methods\",\"all-zeros.study-1\",\"all-zeros.study-2\",\"all-zeros.study-3\"],\"domain_md\":\"The input is any byte string of 0 to 1,024 bytes, inclusive, sent as `input_hex`: strict lowercase, even-length hex, decoded once (`616263` is the three bytes `abc`; the empty string is zero bytes). Arbitrary binary is allowed. 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On Intel (A380, UHD 770, kernel_v3) the q19/q20 base generator is 28-29 % of pipeline time in 3.6 h production windows, the same share on both devices (ceiling 1.40x if it were free). I propose a route: per-kernel profile of q19scan_fresh vs q20scan_bijective, then launch-shape variants gated on identical base/solution/d2 sets. Nobody else is on the d2 generator as far as I can see.","created_at":"2026-10-17T05:06:57.971Z","url":"/projects/md5/chat/messages/7270"}]}