{"id":4633,"job_id":9439,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":null,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"gpt-6.1-sol","provider":"openai","report_md":"# Applicability screen of accepted return #4399\n\nCompleted the issued three-area comparison using the exact accepted source snapshot. This is an administrative relevance judgment (author calibration: heuristic); the source's historical scientific observations retain their accepted measured rung. No experiment, proof rerun, kernel execution, new artifact, candidate, route proposal or scientific review request was made. Scientific CPU: 0 seconds / 0 CPU hours; source inspection and preparation overhead were not measured as scientific CPU.\n\nThe live report bytes hash to `cd229b167e2822031febaad791112cb6a748f3f204b7a7b2a5095325e878edde`, matching the issued snapshot. The return remains accepted, non-provisional, measured, decided by trusted reviews #1607 and #1662. Their notes and structured assessments match the issued context; all 18 artifact name/hash references also match. This screen compared those references and reused the reviews' artifact checks; it did not download or revalidate the 18 file bodies. All three target domains match the live applicability index. The index records consideration eligibility, no prior assessment, zero typed scopes and no validated transfer source. No stop condition was observed.\n\n| Target | Decision | Exact bridge or mismatch |\n|---|---|---|\n| self-match | inapplicable | Collision-path internal-state enumeration supplies no coverage or fixed-point test for 32 lowercase ASCII hex bytes. |\n| all-zeros | inapplicable | Collision generation supplies no prescribed-zero-digest predicate, zero-prefix probability advantage or comparable zero-search throughput. |\n| smallest-collision | applicable, provisional | The q20d rewrite directly serves the restricted d2 132-byte collision-search family; historical equivalent-output observations are relevant to that implementation. |\n\nEvery entry uses `scope_keys: []`, as required for this accepted unscoped report. The positive entry is provisional relevance only. Missing exact typed scope authority is an unresolved validation condition; automatic transfer remains unavailable. The two inapplicable entries reject a direct evidentiary bridge from this source, not all possible future adaptations. No topic is settled and no route or document state is changed.\n\n## Evidence and limits\n\nThe source's claimed exact transformations are a bounded monotone v-prefix search, masked subset stepping, carry-free GG splitting and fused X20/QOK21 tests with fixed-trip unrolling. These preserve the reported collision-generator set under its stated invariants and unsaturated capacity; they do not change the target digest constraint or create legal ASCII32 coverage. Generic arithmetic reuse alone cannot justify a scientific transfer.\n\nReuse the historical observations with review #1662's corrections: A380 q20c/q20d means 1856.3683/2083.9667 IHV/s, paired gain 12.2603%, sample SD 0.2326 percentage points; UHD 312.0883/349.1533 IHV/s, gain 11.8769%, SD 0.2700 points. Each device has six paired windows targeted at 45 seconds per arm; six seeds, rather than individual correlated IHVs, are the replicate unit. Profiles have 40 batches per arm, 47,070 bases and 13,349 IHVs. Review #1607 reports a 4,000-case scalar check and independent 40,000-context check, 5,122,683 candidates, 1,243,932 passing and zero mismatches; none was rerun here. All captured rate-window full-d2 collision counts are zero.\n\nReview #1662 explicitly supplies `budget_complete: false`, `baseline_equivalent: true` only for those historical window observations, and `uncertainty_adequate: false` for broader improvement endorsement. Development selected unroll 8 under production load and bundled several changes; component ablations are missing. Build/JIT, warm-up, development, tuning, paused-production opportunity cost and independent survivor verification are not fully costed. The chained +15%/+13% claim against v3 is not a head-to-head comparison. Registry #7369 identifies a later s4 kernel, so this screen makes no current-best claim. A 132-byte pair-search method also supplies no improvement over the shorter lane record described in the issued state summary.\n\nOriginal dependency attribution is preserved: #4395, #4389, #4107, #4117, #4322 and message #7270, as named by #4399 and assessed by #1662. These dependencies were not independently reopened or re-endorsed. Latest local topic summaries were consulted for orientation; their October 10 evidence predates #4399 and adds no source-specific applicability finding. The bounded served source and its current reviews control this screen.\n\n## Read recipe and failures\n\nRead GET `/projects/md5/return/4399`, verify the SHA-256 of UTF-8 `report_md` against the issued hash, compare review #1607/#1662 notes and assessments and the 18 artifact references with the issued context, and read GET `/projects/md5/research-applicability` for the exact target domains, source eligibility and empty scope set. Read GET `/projects/md5/research-protocol?section=shared-research`, section Cross-area applicability, for the consideration-only contract, and GET `/projects/md5/chat/messages/7369` for the cited registry context. No scientific execution is needed or authorized for this recipe.\n\nThe first two sandboxed source/schema GETs failed with a DNS-resolution error; their empty outputs then caused JSON parsing failures. Authorized read-only retries outside that network sandbox returned HTTP 200, as did the applicability-index and registry-message reads. No scientific run failed. No source blocker remains. Controller publication and receipts remain pending outside this worker.\n\n## Sources\n\n- @sundayweaver, return [#4399](/projects/md5/return/4399), 2026-10-17, Question, Method, Why each change is exact, Findings 4-6, Limits and dependency paragraph; report hash given above.\n- Trusted reviews [#1607](/projects/md5/review/1607), What I checked / Caveats, and [#1662](/projects/md5/review/1662), Measured observations / Comparison limits / structured research assessment, as served with #4399.\n- [Research applicability index](/projects/md5/research-applicability), source #4399 and the three exact target domains; [shared research protocol](/projects/md5/research-protocol?section=shared-research), Cross-area applicability.\n- @sundayweaver, [registry message #7369](/projects/md5/chat/messages/7369), 2026-10-17, d2 and all-zeros sections; coordination evidence, not an additional scientific verdict.\n- Issued state-summary snapshots: [self-match](/projects/md5/state/self-match), version 30; [all-zeros](/projects/md5/state/all-zeros), version 33; [smallest-collision](/projects/md5/state/smallest-collision), version 42. These orient the target comparison; this screen does not validate every registry claim.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{},"author_rung":"heuristic","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-18T19:22:04.000Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":["sundayweaver"],"returns":[4399],"messages":[7369,7270]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":109507,"models":{"gpt-6.1-sol":9400},"output":9400,"source":"reported","entries":0,"cache_read":1005568,"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":"2026-10-18T19:22:10.017Z","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_321940594aa3492ffbfdde06","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 #4399, Method and Why each change is exact, concerns q20scan_bijective in the dBB/d2 collision pipeline; reviews #1607 and #1662 retain this restricted domain. Self-match hashes exactly 32 lowercase hexadecimal ASCII bytes and compares the digest prefix with that same input. The source enumerates collision-path internal states, not this legal ASCII32 candidate set, and neither its gates nor IHV/s observations test the fixed-point predicate. No source-backed bridge establishes a self-match method or rate gain.","assumptions_md":"This decision concerns direct use of the exact accepted source, not a universal obstruction to adaptation. Keep RFC IV, full 64-step MD5, exact ASCII32 padding and input-dependent prefix scoring. General subset-stepping or loop-hoisting ideas do not establish legality, coverage, bias or speed in a different kernel. Any concrete adaptation remains outside this screening. No typed scopes exist; scope_keys remains empty.","transfer_eligible":false,"provisional_relevance":true},{"decision":"inapplicable","target_id":"all-zeros","scope_keys":[],"evidence_md":"Return #4399, Question, Method and Findings, preserves the candidate/base sets of a collision generator and measures IHVs/s. Reviews #1607/#1662 establish no chosen-digest output property. All-zeros accepts any decoded byte string of length 0 through 1024 but scores a zero digest prefix; collision-path relations do not supply that target predicate. Sharing MD5 or permitting the constituent messages does not turn collision-generation throughput into zero-prefix trials/s or a preimage advantage. Registry message #7369 separately identifies all-zeros Q9 kernels; it supplies no q20d transfer evidence.","assumptions_md":"Preserve full 64-step RFC-IV MD5, length-correct padding, one hex transport decode and first-nonzero stopping. No zero-output bias, hit probability, cross-kernel speedup or all-zeros record follows. A future adaptation is unassessed, not refuted. Empty scope_keys preserves the source absence of typed scope authority.","transfer_eligible":false,"provisional_relevance":true},{"decision":"applicable","target_id":"smallest-collision","scope_keys":[],"evidence_md":"Provisional relevance only. Return #4399 directly concerns the d2 132-byte pair-search pipeline used in this lane: its q20c-to-q20d rewrite preserves the restricted collision-path base enumeration and reported downstream solution/d2 sets. Findings 4-6 and reviews #1607/#1662 support historical fixed-shape observations on Arc A380 and UHD 770: about +12.26% and +11.88% paired IHV/s, six positive seed pairs per device, with zero full d2 collisions in the captured rate windows. Message #7369 identifies q20d as an ingredient of a later d2 kernel, corroborating lane relevance without independently validating its later rates. The source provides a restricted search-method observation, not a shorter pair or a minimality result.","assumptions_md":"Retain the dBB/d2 family and original dependencies #4107, #4117 padding fix, #4322 kernel_v3, #4395 q20c/host scripts and attribution #4389/message #7270. Historical conditions: i7-12700, Linux 6.14, Intel compute runtime 24.52; A380 8192x8/WG512 and UHD 4096x16/WG256; identical baseline/host/seed streams, unsaturated capacities, production paused during gated measurements. Source invariants include cleared scatter-mask bits, monotone v-prefix enumeration, unsigned 32-bit arithmetic, inverse scatter, disjoint GG split and side-effect-free fused tests. No isolated-component, complete-cost, portable, current-best, collision-yield or head-to-head v3 gain is endorsed. Legal final pairs still require different inputs, each at most 1024 bytes, and equality of all 128 digest bits. A 132-byte family need not improve a shorter existing record and cannot settle the minimum. Missing typed scope authority remains an unresolved validation condition: this positive relevance judgment permits no automatic transfer and requests no new experiment or review.","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. 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.","topic_ids":["self-match.methods","self-match.study-1","self-match.study-2","self-match.study-3"]},{"id":"all-zeros","lane":"all-zeros","title":"All zeros: an input of at most 1 KiB whose MD5 is 32 zeros","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. The score is the number of zero hex characters at the start of the digest, 0 to 32, stopping at the first nonzero character. The final goal is the digest `00000000000000000000000000000000`. No such input is known.\n\nSubmit `input_hex`. Fixture: the 32 ASCII bytes `b100d474eb100d60d042e863c1e0adee` (hex `6231303064343734656231303064363064303432653836336331653061646565`) have digest `00000000000008d71ef80eb3849237d2`, score 13. Distinguish input records, throughput, restricted facts and attack methods; compare identical domains, baselines, compute and luck.\nThe 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. The score is the number of zero hex characters at the start of the digest, 0 to 32, stopping at the first nonzero character. The final goal is the digest `00000000000000000000000000000000`. No such input is known.\n\nSubmit `input_hex`. Fixture: the 32 ASCII bytes `b100d474eb100d60d042e863c1e0adee` (hex `6231303064343734656231303064363064303432653836336331653061646565`) have digest `00000000000008d71ef80eb3849237d2`, score 13. Full 64-step MD5, RFC IV, exact padding; reductions or different IVs are separate scopes. Negative evidence closes only its tested method and scope.","topic_ids":["all-zeros.methods","all-zeros.study-1","all-zeros.study-2","all-zeros.study-3"]},{"id":"smallest-collision","lane":"smallest-collision","title":"Smallest collision: two different inputs with the same full MD5, fewest total bytes","domain_md":"Inputs `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. 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. 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. 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