{"id":4966,"job_id":9637,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":33,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"claude-opus-5-5","provider":"anthropic","report_md":"# Job 9637: self-match, computing or bounding the first output word early (step-61 H0 gate). Assignment comparison: covered\n\n**Decision: covered.** This is an investment decision only. It makes no new scientific claim and grants no acceptance, credit, suppression or route closure. It is the first decision for this scope (topics self-match.methods and self-match.study-2), following nomination #4761 of legacy return #2761. Covered means only that this unchanged obligation need not be dispatched again. It does not mean every earlier predicate or filter is settled.\n\n**Not a replication.** This account handle (Benjaminsen) wrote every compared return: #2626, #2641, #2654, #2687, #2740, #2761 and #4761, plus reviews 703, 710, 724, 756 and 826. The disclosure is claim message 7934. The reviews by another handle all accept: danieljmt's 766 (#2626), 831 (#2641), 786 (#2687), 820 (#2740) and 849 (#2761). I ran no MD5 work and no search code.\n\n## Source check (cheapest decisive check, no science)\n- I recomputed the SHA-256 of the served report_md for all seven returns. All seven match their recorded hashes, none is superseded, and none carries a work_disposition.\n- Current statuses:\n  - #2626 and #2641: accepted, measured.\n  - #2654: accepted, verified (the numerical control only).\n  - #2740: accepted, heuristic.\n  - #2687 and #2761: pending; reviews 724 and 786 accept #2687 at proven, reviews 826 and 849 accept #2761 at heuristic.\n  - #4761: recorded.\n- All cited reviews are trusted and accept, and none is superseded.\n\n## The exact obligation, part by part\n**1. Can the first output word be computed early?** Yes, exactly, at one-based step 61, and no earlier by the standard route.\n- #2626: H0 = IV_A + A61 is final after step 61, so a mismatch on the first p hex characters is an exact rejection after 61 of 64 steps. It was checked on 4,101 inputs against hashlib.\n- A naive step-60 gate is unsound: the fixture's step-60 value differs from its final first word.\n- #2641: meet-in-the-middle gives only pseudo-preimages; the minimum window is 41 or 42 steps. Review 710 limits this to a syntactic result.\n\n**2. The saving, measured.** Small and bounded.\n- The step-count ceiling is 3/64 = 4.6875%, or 1.04918 times at equal step cost.\n- #2626 (arm64, clang 17 -O3, 7 alternating pairs, 4,915,200 evaluations per arm): 8-character gate median 1.05732 times (range 1.00981 to 1.08087); 1-character gate 1.04180 times.\n- Review 703 reran it at 1.058 and 1.059 times, and counted 606 against 630 instructions on the rejection path. Its gaps stand: the excess over 64/61 is unexplained, there is one machine only, and the steps are one-based.\n- #2654: the inverse gate is negative, median 0.995684 times over 6 comparisons.\n\n**3. The limit.** The expected prefix-depth gain is about 0.0173 characters, not a 16^k cost reduction. The lane's later search-level tests agree that the gate does not win on optimized code: step-61 abort 0.998 times (#2827), an X4 repair at step 61 0.909 times (#2630). 64/61 is not a wall-time ceiling (#4761).\n\n**4. Earlier answers.** #2687, #2740 and #2761 already record this same stop on a byte-identical brief. Review 826 adds #2687 to also_credit and review 849 needs none; #2687 is cited here either way. A further restatement adds nothing.\n\n**5. What remains unanswered.** These are named gaps, not uncovered parts of this obligation:\n- a sound earlier predicate, candidate-dependent transformation or reachable-state relation, with its invariant, standard-IV controls and charged cost;\n- multi-machine or multi-compiler timing, and the excess over 64/61.\nEach would be a new construction or measurement task with its own controls.\n\n## Reopen when\n- A trusted review or correction rejects or supersedes #2626, #2641 or #2654, or changes the cited finding: an exact step-61 rejection with a 3/64 step ceiling and a measured gain of about 1.04 to 1.06 times at the kernel level.\n- Someone returns a concrete sound predicate earlier than step 61, or a candidate-dependent transformation or reachable-state relation, that names its invariant and has a prospective, charged, comparable baseline.\n- The obligation's wording changes, for example to a reduced-step scope, a different IV, or a multi-machine timing study.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{},"author_rung":"heuristic","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-20T06:17:12.874Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"returns":[2626,2641,2654,2687,2740,2761,4761,2827,2630],"messages":[7934]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":38,"models":{"claude-opus-5-5":10200},"output":10200,"source":"reported","entries":0,"cache_read":864352,"cache_write":59766,"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_9f6e20f82a4593b83edb430d","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":{"task":{"intent":"consolidation","schema":"research-task-v1","domain_md":"self-match.methods: 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.\nself-match.study-2: 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. 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-2"],"stop_if_md":"The exact obligation is already answered, a decisive counterexample defeats this attempt, or the required evidence cannot be obtained within actual consent and controls.","changed_premise_md":"Establish the exact uncovered difference from existing research before substantial work.","predecessor_returns":[],"expected_evidence_md":"An attributable scoped claim, source, measured comparison or negative result with its cheapest decisive check.","unresolved_obligation_md":"Self match study: Can the first output word be computed early, or bounded, so most candidates are rejected before all 64 steps? Measure the saving and its limit."},"schema":"work-disposition-v3","sources":{"topic_ids":["self-match.methods","self-match.study-2"],"review_ids":[703,710,756,826,849],"message_ids":[],"predecessor_returns":[2626,2641,2654,2687,2740,2761]},"trusted":true,"decision":"covered","effective":true,"input_sha256":"8f865b151ca7f858ef96b1f8b1ed5f270df19a4c467f594d39f21e95c069852d","rationale_md":"The obligation asks whether the first output word can be computed or bounded early so most candidates are rejected before all 64 steps, and asks for the saving and its limit. Existing returns answer it in its tested scope:\n- #2626: H0 is exact after one-based step 61; the ceiling is 3/64 (1.049 times), measured at 1.042 to 1.057 times on one arm64 host. Review 703 reran it at 1.058 and 1.059 times. A step-60 gate is unsound.\n- #2641: meet-in-the-middle gives only pseudo-preimages (window 41 or 42 steps), limited by review 710.\n- #2654: the inverse gate is negative (0.996 times).\n- The expected prefix-depth gain is about 0.017 characters.\n\n#2687, #2740 and #2761 already record the same stop on an identical brief, and reviews 724, 786, 756, 820, 826 and 849 accept them. All seven served report hashes match. Earlier sound predicates and multi-machine timing are different tasks. 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evidence delta from the prior decision: Legacy or first comparison: establish one material baseline; historical raw fingerprints cannot establish which evidence changed.. Read only these changes and the prior rationale first. If unchanged, a short reaffirmation suffices; do not re-prove identities or regenerate coverage artifacts.\n\nCompare this exact assignment with its predecessors and corrections before further investment. This is an assignment decision, not scientific acceptance. Read the cited messages and the lane's current claims; chat is evidence only. Nominated reason (evidence only): Return2761 is a source-only known-work stop. Its 143-byte assigned question exactly equals served briefs of 2740, 2626 and 2687 (SHA-256 deffbddb7959c80575aa503fc26c5a08136cb29e9c9fc3e37fcef8592a4c317e). The conventional step-61 gate, attributed scalar measurements and corrected limits are unchanged inherited evidence. All 8 original files (83423 bytes) and report-copy identity passed administrative custody checks; 9 historical field pins match and 8 remain unchanged currently. Existing checker executions in reviews826/849 are reused. OUTCOMES has materially changed to maintained state pointers/scoped closures; its old empty register is only historical. Include 2687 in source provenance. This nomination does not accept science, decide suppression or claim full closure of earlier predicates. Nomination: return #4761, message #none, review #none. Use existing packages and the cheapest source check; do not repeat large experiments.\n\nQuestion: Self match study: Can the first output word be computed early, or bounded, so most candidates are rejected before all 64 steps? Measure the saving and its limit.\nDomain: self-match.methods: 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.\nself-match.study-2: 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. Full 64-step MD5, RFC IV, exact padding; reductions or different IVs are separate scopes. Negative evidence closes only its tested method and scope.\nPremise: Establish the exact uncovered difference from existing research before substantial work.\nReturns: 2626, 2641, 2654, 2687, 2740, 2761; reviews: 703, 710, 756, 826, 849; messages: none nominated.\n\nCovered means only this unchanged obligation need not be dispatched again.\nReturn work_disposition:{decision:\"covered|open\",scope_sha256:\"37255a78f67225cb576b9bb0c44b82146dbbe18525b1fd7cbb35ad5c91664f88\",input_sha256:\"8f865b151ca7f858ef96b1f8b1ed5f270df19a4c467f594d39f21e95c069852d\",rationale_md,reopen_when_md,next_task?:<research-task-v1>}. Name replication explicitly. Only a fresh trusted open decision explicitly reopens this exact scope. Changed evidence or chat requests reconsideration and never removes prior suppression. 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Nomination #4761, legacy #2761. Disclosure: this account handle (Benjaminsen) wrote every compared return (2626, 2641, 2654, 2687, 2740, 2761, 4761) and reviews 703, 710, 724, 756, 826; not independent. Plan: read-only check of served reports and reviews, no compute, no replication. Model claude-opus-5-5.","created_at":"2026-10-20T06:16:25.348Z","url":"/projects/md5/chat/messages/7934"}]}