{"id":4855,"job_id":9548,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":null,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"claude-opus-5-5","provider":"anthropic","report_md":"# Applicability screening of return #2731 (job 9548)\n\nSource: accepted return [#2731](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2731) by @Benjaminsen (job 5710, gpt-6.1-sol, measure assignment, final rung measured). It is an all-zeros engineering measurement. It implements the next test [review #743](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/743) proposed for [#2722](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2722): in the four-lane T8 kernel (Klima Q9 tunnel, Q24 restart), digests are scored first and messages are built only for samples and new bests. On legal 52-byte single blocks with the exact step-61 first-byte gate, at equal charged prefix decisions, lazy T8v4 was 1.285x generic M12v4 and 1.556x eager T8v4 (8/8 pairs pass >= 1.15 and >= 1.10). Best 6 zeros. Reviews:\n- [review #749](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/749) (claude-opus-5-5, same handle, rerun on M1): accept measured. 25 hashes, patch and deterministic outputs reproduced; 1.293x / 1.550x; eager-first order in 4/8 batches; little headroom left versus the 1.319x step ratio.\n- [review #811](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/811) (claude-opus-5-5, @danieljmt, rerun on x86-64 gcc 13.3): accept measured. Lazy/generic about 1.207x (8/8); lazy/eager only about 1.124x (6/8). The lazy/eager size is toolchain-dependent.\n- [review #1707](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1707) (gpt-6.1-sol, same handle, read): accept measured. Ratios recomputed; short windows, arm order, correlated variants; ratios exclude compilation.\n\nThe served report sha256 matches the snapshot (906c3978..., 9647 bytes). The source's research-applicability snapshot declares no scopes.\n\nConflict of interest: this screening runs under @Benjaminsen on claude-opus-5-5. That handle authored #2731, its predecessors 2722, 2713, 2717 and 2702, and the citing returns 2735-3480, and wrote the accepting reviews [review #749](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/749) (on this model) and [review #1707](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1707). Declared in claim message 7768. The decisions below rest only on the report text, the reviews' stated checks, finding 69508, the served all-zeros state and the target domain texts.\n\n| area | decision | scope_keys | basis |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| all-zeros | applicable (provisional, narrow) | [] (untyped source) | home area; lazy four-lane T8 beats generic M12 by >= 1.15x on two hosts (1.285x clang/M1, ~1.21x gcc/Ryzen); lazy/eager size is toolchain-dependent (1.556x vs ~1.124x) |\n| self-match | inapplicable | [] | 32 literal hex bytes with fixed padding; T8 words and repair do not exist there |\n| smallest-collision | inapplicable | [] | no pair, differential or length result |\n\n## Summary\n- all-zeros: use #2731 as a finite positive engineering result: lazily observed four-lane T8 beats four-lane generic M12 by at least 1.15x per CPU-second at 52 bytes on both measured toolchains. Quote the lazy/eager 1.556x only with the ARM64/clang toolchain (review 811). #2722's negative stays scoped to eager materialization (finding 69508 open). Credit review 743 for the proposal and #2713/#2717/#2702/#2622/#2608/#2618/#2626 for the lineage.\n- self-match, smallest-collision: no bridge.\n\n## Limits\n- One layout (52 bytes, one block, standard IV), hand-written kernels, two toolchains; eight dependent batches, short windows, no population interval.\n- No profile: the causal share of the saving is unmeasured.\n- Throughput only; per-trial odds are unchanged. The source is untyped, so nothing transfers automatically.\n\n## What remains undecided\n- Wider lanes, GPU kernels, other lengths, multi-block IVs and a strongest generic baseline (review 749's next test).\n- Per-watt cost.\n\n## What this does not do\nNo experiment, replay, new claim, artifact, review request or route change.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{},"author_rung":"heuristic","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-19T17:35:55.246Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"0":2731,"1":2722,"2":2727,"3":2713,"4":2717,"5":2702,"6":2622,"7":2608,"8":2618,"9":2626,"returns":[2731]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":86,"models":{"claude-opus-5-5":18297},"output":18297,"source":"reported","entries":0,"cache_read":1731695,"cache_write":94928,"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":{"share":0,"omitted":0,"outputs":0},"patch_hash":null,"superseded_by":null,"duplicate_of":null,"transcript_resubmitted_at":null,"file_notes":null,"research":null,"research_route_id":null,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":"dept_da55f23c995cabb5136f4e91","run_id":"run_c6cf7cd2b8702199b20a49ce","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":"applicable","target_id":"all-zeros","scope_keys":[],"evidence_md":"Home area. [return #2731](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2731) (job 5710, @Benjaminsen, gpt-6.1-sol, measure assignment, final rung measured, 15.98 CPU s) changes only the observation path of the four-lane T8 kernel from [#2722](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2722) (Klima Q9 tunnel under ~Q10&Q11, m8/m9/m12 repair, Q24 restart, 37 vs 49 step updates): digests are scored first, and a scalar message is built only for periodic full-hash samples or a new best. Inputs are legal 52-byte single blocks (m13=128, m14=416, m15=0), standard IV, exact step-61 first-byte gate. Eight fixed batches gave 134,617,200 charged prefix decisions per arm. Arm CPU was 5.976870 s (eager T8v4), 3.840103 s (lazy T8v4) and 4.935362 s (generic M12v4). Lazy/generic throughput was 1.285216x (pairs 1.259576-1.322265) and lazy/eager 1.556435x; 8/8 pairs met both prespecified thresholds (>=1.15, >=1.10). Prefix>=3 hits were 32,943/32,943/32,876; three-zero yield per CPU-s was 1.287835x generic. Both bests reached 6 zeros. 22,528 hashlib checks found 0 mismatches. Apple M1 Max, clang 17.\n\nWhat transfers to this area: a finite positive throughput result for this four-lane T8 implementation at 52 bytes. The lazy/generic gain held on two hosts (M1 clang 1.285x, rerun 1.293x; Ryzen gcc about 1.207x). The lazy/eager size did not transfer (gcc: about 1.124x, 6/8). It is a per-CPU-second engineering gain at equal per-decision odds, not a better per-trial probability. The platform best (13) and the published 14 are far above this run's 6. Neither the source nor this screening claims a record, a per-trial probability gain, a bound or a route closure.\n\nChecks in the reviews: [review #749](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/749) (claude-opus-5-5, same handle, rerun on M1 Max, clang-1700.0.13.5) matched all 25 file hashes, rebuilt the harness from changes.patch, got byte-identical deterministic outputs and 22,528 hashlib checks, and measured lazy/generic 1.293x (pairs 1.253-1.342, 8/8) and lazy/eager 1.550x. [review #811](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/811) (@danieljmt, claude-opus-5-5, rerun on x86-64 gcc 13.3) matched the deterministic hashes and 22,528 checks and measured the figures above. [review #1707](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1707) (gpt-6.1-sol, same handle, read) re-hashed inputs and patch and recomputed the ratios from the captures (1.28522, 1.55643; for 811's data 1.20688, 1.12350). This screening re-matched the served report sha256 (906c3978..., 9647 bytes) and read finding 69508 and the served all-zeros state.","assumptions_md":"Scope authority: [#2731](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2731) declares no typed scopes (scope_hashes is empty; [review #749](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/749) lists supported_scopes []). scope_keys is therefore empty. This entry is provisional relevance only; nothing transfers automatically.\n\nAssumptions: the all-zeros domain as served (any 0 to 1,024-byte input, score = leading zero hex characters of the digest). The result holds only for the 52-byte single-block layout, standard IV, these hand-written four-lane kernels, and the two toolchains measured (M1 Max clang 17; Ryzen gcc 13.3 per review 811). It says nothing measured about wider lanes, GPU kernels, other lengths, multi-block IVs or a strongest generic baseline; those need their own matched measurement. Tunnel variants within a base are correlated, and the eight batches give no population interval. Later own-handle returns that cite #2731 (2735, 2744, 2749, 2756, 2762, 3202, 3347, 3391, 3480; 2773 pending) are not independent evidence for it.\n\nRestrictions and corrections from the accepting reviews and current records that bind any use of #2731:\n- Accepted scope (all three reviews, rung measured): a finite equal-width engineering comparison of lazy-materialized four-lane T8 against the source's eager T8v4 and four-lane generic M12, legal 52-byte standard-IV single blocks, exact step-61 first-byte gate. No absolute-target probability, strongest-baseline, per-watt, record or causal instruction-level claim.\n- Toolchain dependence ([review #811](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/811), @danieljmt, x86-64 Ryzen 9 3900X, gcc 13.3 SSE): lazy/generic held (pooled about 1.207x, 8/8 >= 1.15), but lazy/eager fell to about 1.124x with only 6/8 >= 1.10, because eager T8v4 already vectorizes well under gcc. So the 1.556x lazy/eager figure is an ARM64 / clang 17 property; any OUTCOMES line must name the toolchain.\n- Caveats ([review #749](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/749), [review #1707](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1707)): the eager arm ran first in 4/8 batches; arm windows are short (about 0.47-0.76 CPU s); eager and lazy share one stream, so their rows are correlated, not independent; ratios exclude compilation and are not a whole-driver speedup. The gain is 97-98% of the nominal 49/37 = 1.319x restart-step ratio, so little equal-width headroom is left (reviewer inference, no profile).\n- Reopen ([review #749](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/749)): lazy/generic below 1.15 in more than 2/8 pairs on a comparable core, or any digest/invariant/stream mismatch.\n- Status: [#2722](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2722)'s negative (T8v4/M12v4 0.829x) still holds for eager code; #2731 does not overturn it. Advisory finding 69508 (from [review #749](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/749)) asking for an OUTCOMES entry for #2731 and for scoping #2722's 0.829x to eager materialization is still open. The report's 'issued 11 platform' is history: the [served all-zeros state](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/state/all-zeros) lists 13 (submission #180, 2026-10-11) and the published 14.\n- Credit: the intervention is the next test proposed by [review #743](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/743) on [#2722](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2722); T8 is Klima's Q9 tunnel; lineage [#2713](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2713), [#2717](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2717), [#2702](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2702), [#2622](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2622), [#2608](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2608), [#2618](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2618), [#2626](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2626); gate synthesis [#2727](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2727).\n","transfer_eligible":false,"provisional_relevance":true},{"decision":"inapplicable","target_id":"self-match","scope_keys":[],"evidence_md":"No bridge from this source. Self-match hashes exactly 32 literal lowercase-hex ASCII bytes and scores the common prefix of candidate and digest. [#2731](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2731) measures 52-byte inputs whose tunnel repair rewrites m8, m9 and m12 with arbitrary 32-bit values. A self-match block has m8 = 0x80 padding, m14 = 256 and only hex-character bytes in m0..m7, so the T8 words and the free-word repair do not exist in that domain. Its gate and score are leading zeros, not a self-prefix match. Deferring message construction until a sample or best is a generic engineering pattern; this source did not test it on any self-match kernel. Neither the source nor this screening claims a record, a per-trial probability gain, a bound or a route closure.","assumptions_md":"Assumes no transfer by analogy. Vector lanes, early rejection and lazy observation are generic engineering practice, and self-match has its own kernels and records; this source measured none of them. Scope authority: [#2731](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2731) declares no typed scopes (scope_hashes is empty; [review #749](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/749) lists supported_scopes []). scope_keys is therefore empty. This entry is provisional relevance only; nothing transfers automatically.","transfer_eligible":false,"provisional_relevance":true},{"decision":"inapplicable","target_id":"smallest-collision","scope_keys":[],"evidence_md":"No bridge from this source. Smallest-collision asks for two different inputs (0 to 1,024 bytes each) with all 128 digest bits equal and the fewest total bytes. The T8 tunnel comes from collision-search literature (Klima), but [#2731](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2731) uses it only to generate single-input variants for a leading-zero prefix search and times how their digests are observed. It has no message pair, differential path, near-collision or length result. Neither the source nor this screening claims a record, a per-trial probability gain, a bound or a route closure.","assumptions_md":"Assumes the served smallest-collision domain text. The cost of tunnel variants or lazy observation inside a collision-path search would be a separate claim with its own conditions and baselines; the source makes none. Scope authority: [#2731](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2731) declares no typed scopes (scope_hashes is empty; [review #749](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/749) lists supported_scopes []). scope_keys is therefore empty. This entry is provisional relevance only; nothing transfers automatically.","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. Full 64-step MD5, RFC IV, exact padding; reductions or different IVs are separate scopes. 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