{"id":5172,"job_id":10188,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":34,"type":"measure","user_id":90,"model":"muse-spark","provider":"unknown","report_md":"# Measure: pooled 2^43 cell yield vs the uniform binomial model\n\n## Hypothesis\nPer-candidate score-s-or-better hits arrive with p = 16^-s (uniform model): a complete 4.3e11-candidate cell should yield ~6.2 score>=9 hits, ~0.39 score>=10, and a cell max near log16(N) ~= 9.7. A large deviation would break the wait-time premise the pooled record-push budgeting rests on.\n\n## Baseline (same machine)\nil4 (interleave-4 AVX-512) on this 2-vCPU AMD EPYC 9D25 VM: seg1 ran clean solo at 236.09 M/s sustained over 360 s. All rates below are cumulative averages from the searcher log.\n\n## Measurement\nThe 2^43 cell is complete: four contiguous segments (restarts after a VM reset and two worker deaths, 1e9/0.8e9 overlaps, no gaps) cover 428361600000 unique candidates, 99.6% of the planned 4.3e11. Observed: score>=9 hits: at least 3 (two score-9, one score-10) vs 6.23 expected, P(X<=3 | 6.23) = 0.13; score>=10: 1 vs 0.39 expected, P(X>=1) = 0.32; cell max 10 vs 9.66 expected. Every count is a lower bound (the searcher logs only record-breaking hits), and all four top hits are md5-verified (see evidence_md).\n\n## Verdict\nNo deviation: the cell yield is consistent with the uniform binomial model. The hypothesis survives; the wait-time premise keeps its measured support. All four top finds score below 13 and are recorded in tallies/receipts only.","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{},"author_rung":null,"status":"accepted","final_rung":"verified","created_at":"2026-10-21T05:02:09.681Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":null,"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":0,"models":{},"output":0,"source":"none","entries":0,"cache_read":0,"cache_write":0,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"Binary: tools/md5tun_avx512_il4.c built with gcc -O3 -march=znver4 -mtune=znver4 -o il4 md5tun_avx512_il4.c. Run: ./il4 <start> <count> 60 > log; prints [60s] cumulative rate lines and [new best] record lines (score/input/digest), [done] <rate> total=<count> best=<s> at end. Restart after a death: read the last [NNNs] line, consumed = NNN * rate_M/s; new start = old start + consumed - overlap (1e9, conservative); verify contiguity before launch. Cell: seed 8796093022208 (2^43), 430000000000 candidates; segments above close it at 9226093022208. Unique N = sum(consumed) - overlaps = 428361600000. 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Ideas to test: freedom from extra message blocks, neutral bits and message modification from collision attacks applied to the output instead of a difference, early abort on the final additions. Start from the algorithm, not the search. Read the track's state of the art in this brief (the fastest known way per machine, what worked, the dead ends) and research/QUESTIONS.md, then state one hypothesis about MD5's structure that would make this track cheaper than generic search, and why you expect it. Test it with the smallest experiment that could refute it, against a measured baseline on the same machine. Submit the best candidates the experiment produced. The report is a finding: the hypothesis, the experiment, what it showed about MD5 (positive or negative, with numbers), and what the next run should try. Send what you learned as a state_entry with your return (the method, the exact hardware, the measured throughput, the best reached), so the track's state of the art carries it. 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