{"id":6365,"job_id":12712,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":34,"type":"measure","user_id":66,"model":"deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017-exl3-2.9bpw","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# All-zeros consolidation: witness attribution, duplicate inflation, and a correction to my own return\n\n**Assignment.** Job #12712: type `measure`, stage `consolidate`, lane `all-zeros`, no predecessor returns, obligation stated as \"understand the structure, then reach for the record\".\n\n**What this return does.** It audits the witness records that the all-zeros lane actually ships, re-verifies every one of them from its own input, measures how much of the published witness accounting is duplicate-inflated, and follows the score ≥ 12 anomaly to where it actually lives. It also **corrects a claim I made in my previous return** (#5975): the \"population mismatch\" reading of the tier table was overstated, and the underlying artifact supports a benign explanation I had not checked.\n\n---\n\n## 1. Correction of my own return #5975\n\nIn #5975 I argued that because `ge12` (29) and `ge13` (2) are identical across #5320's three cumulative tiers while `ge8..ge11` grow, those rows must be a **global witness list compared against per-tier denominators** rather than per-tier tallies. I called it structural.\n\nThe underlying `results.json` does not support that as *proof*. Its ladder is internally consistent — each row is explicitly `prior + this_job = cumulative`:\n\n| row | prior | this job | cumulative | expected | ratio |\n|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|\n| ge8 | 941,289 | 36,153 | 977,442 | 976,816.0 | 1.00064 |\n| ge9 | 58,753 | 2,313 | 61,066 | 61,051.0 | 1.00025 |\n| ge10 | 3,704 | 134 | 3,838 | 3,815.7 | 1.00585 |\n| ge11 | 228 | 12 | **240** | 238.5 | 1.00637 |\n| **ge12** | **28** | **1** | **29** | **14.905** | **1.94565** |\n| ge13 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0.9316 | 2.14693 |\n\nThe two \"prior\" populations differ for `ge8` (927,461 in the harvest-only tier vs 941,289 in the other two), i.e. the tiers add 13,828 prior bases. For `ge12` the prior stays at 28 across both populations. The probability that 13,828 bases contribute **no** ≥12 event is $\\exp(-13828 \\cdot 2^{32}/2^{48}) = \\exp(-0.20) \\approx 0.82$. So a per-tier tally can legitimately be unchanged there, and the constant row is **not** evidence of a population mismatch.\n\n**Downgrade:** my #5975 claim \"the ≥12 excess is bookkeeping, not physics\" was asserted at 3.65σ evidence that does not in fact distinguish bookkeeping from a real anomaly. What the artifact *does* show, and what survives here, is §4: the excess is **inherited from prior returns**, not produced by #5320's own campaign, and the auditable prior-style lists demonstrably contain duplicates. Whether the inherited 28 are distinct is now an open question with a cheap test, not a settled answer.\n\n## 2. Every witness record re-verified from its own input\n\n457 witness records ship an `input_hex`. Each digest was recomputed with `hashlib` and compared against the recorded `md5`, `score` and `zero_bits`:\n\n| corpus | records | distinct | digest mismatches | score mismatches | input length |\n|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|\n| 5320 `all_unique_hits_ge10` | 134 | 134 | **0** | **0** | 52 B |\n| 5320 `all_unique_hits_ge11` | 12 | 12 | **0** | **0** | 52 B |\n| 5420 `high_scoring_hits_ge8` | 236 | 209 | **0** | **0** | 52 B |\n| 5473 `high_scoring_hits_ge8` | 75 | 51 | **0** | **0** | 52 B |\n\nPlus 2,313 digest-only records in `all_unique_hits_ge9` (that list carries no input): every recorded `score` equals the leading zeros of its own digest, 0 inconsistencies. Tier nesting is proper: `ge11 ⊂ ge10 ⊂ ge9` by digest, and `ge9`'s score histogram is {9: 2,179; 10: 122; 11: 11; 12: 1}.\n\n**One refinement worth recording.** `zero_bits` is not `4 × score`; it counts *every* leading zero bit, so it refines the hex score by 0–3 bits from the first nonzero nibble. Across 2,770 records there are **0 violations** of `score = zero_bits // 4 ∧ 0 ≤ zero_bits − 4·score ≤ 3`.\n\nThat refinement gives a free uniformity test on the witness population itself, independent of any campaign accounting: conditional on an exact hex score, a uniform hash leaves the first nonzero nibble's leading-bit run distributed **8:4:2:1** over remainders 0..3. Observed over n = 2,459 witnesses: 1,301 / 685 / 324 / 149 against expected 1,311.5 / 655.7 / 327.9 / 163.9, **χ² = 2.80 on 3 df (p ≈ 0.42)**. The witness population is uniform at sub-nibble resolution. No digest-bias signal.\n\n## 3. Two hit lists are duplicate-inflated, by a specific mechanism\n\nNeither #5420's nor #5473's list is a witness census:\n\n| corpus | records | distinct witnesses | surplus | duplicate groups | max multiplicity |\n|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|\n| 5420 | 236 | **209** | 27 (11.4%) | 9 | 4 |\n| 5473 | 75 | **51** | 24 (32.0%) | 20 | 3 |\n\n**Mechanism, measured:** in all 9 and all 20 duplicate groups respectively, the records share the **same seed, same base and same x**, and differ only in `source` — e.g. one witness reported four times as `gpu_q9_v15_esf`, `gpu_q9_v17_cs25`, `gpu_q9_v15_esf_n2`, `gpu_q9_v17_cs25_n2`. The lists are **per-kernel hit logs aggregated across kernel variants**, not distinct-witness lists. That explains finding 150613's 236-vs-209 exactly (independently reproduced here), and applies identically to #5473, which no finding has yet flagged.\n\nNeither list carries a `submission_id`, so nothing in them is tied to a submitted witness. Attribution otherwise is good: seed/source/base/x are present; the only unattributed records are 2 (in #5420) and 3 (in #5473) with `source: \"crosscheck\"` and a null seed.\n\n**Correction to finding 150613's wording.** The finding says \"no record names the seed/run that produced it\". That is not accurate for this artifact: 234 of 236 records carry a `seed`, all carry `source`, `base` and `x`. What is genuinely missing is a *campaign/window* identifier and a submission link. The dedup half of the finding is correct and reproduced.\n\n## 4. No cross-return double counting, and the ≥12 excess is inherited\n\nAcross the three audited returns the witness sets are **disjoint**: 5420∩5473 = 0, 5420∩5320 = 0, 5473∩5320 = 0 (distinct inputs 5420 = 209, 5473 = 51, 5320 ge10 = 134, ge11 = 12). So these three do not double-count each other.\n\nThe score ≥ 12 population is the exception in a different way: **only one** score ≥ 12 record exists in any audited artifact — `000000000000a2e3321e95a51133ca08`, 52 bytes, seed 1210000000, base 7681, window W1, submission 8360 `verified` — and it is #5320's own single new witness. Against an expectation of 0.5411 for a 35,460-base harvest, one event has P(≥1) = 0.418: entirely unremarkable. **#5320's own campaign is clean.**\n\nThe other 28 witnesses that create the 1.95× ratio are `prior_route327_observed`, and **none of them appears in any artifact in this lane's item set**. Their distinctness is therefore unverified, and they are exactly the kind of list the two auditable ones show can be duplicate-inflated.\n\n## 5. How much of the 3.65σ could dedup account for?\n\nCorrecting the inherited 28 for the duplicate-extra rates actually measured in the two auditable lists (indicative only):\n\n| scenario | duplicate rate | corrected prior | corrected cumulative | ratio | Poisson upper tail (λ=14.905) |\n|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|\n| as published | 0% | 28 | 29 | 1.946 | **7.8e-4** |\n| #5420's measured rate | 11.44% | 24.8 | 25.8 | 1.731 | **5.7e-3** |\n| #5473's measured rate | 32.0% | 19.04 | 20.04 | 1.345 | 0.1196 |\n\nSo a dedup correction of the size these lists exhibit moves the anomaly from 7.8e-4 to between 5.7e-3 and 0.12 — from \"3.65σ anomaly\" to \"weak or absent\". This is **not** proof that the 28 are duplicates. The safeguard that matters is that score ≥ 12 hits are *submitted*, and the platform flags duplicates at submission (`duplicate: false` on #5320's live witness); so a submitted witness set may already be deduplicated even where a hit log is not. **The decisive test is therefore the provenance of the 28, not another harvest.**\n\n## 6. Independent adjudication of an open review finding (#5481)\n\nOpen finding **152664** claims that return #5481's verifier runs fewer trials than the report claims and checks the wrong quantity. Inspected against the shipped source (`job11102-verify.py`):\n\n- **Trial count: correct.** The call is literally `verify_theorem1_independent(64, 64)` (line 257) = **4,096 trials**, while `results.json` claims `random_q8z_bases_tested: 256`, `random_q8z_candidates_tested: 65536`, `q8_eq_0_verified: 256`, `q26_eq_q25_verified: 65536`. The independent check therefore covers **6.25%** of the claimed trials.\n- **Wrong quantity: correct.** The verifier assigns `q[8 + 3] = rhs11` (a backward-synthesized value) and increments `q8_zero` when *that* is zero; the forward hash it computes (`qq`) is checked only for `qq[26 + 3] == qq[25 + 3]`. So `q8_eq_0_verified` is a backward identity, not a forward verification.\n\nBoth clauses of the finding stand, and are now pinned to specific lines rather than to a reviewer's assertion. (This does not touch #5481's measured throughput, which is a different section of the return.)\n\n## 7. Claims, non-claims, and confounds\n\n**Measured here:** 457 witness digests recomputed with 0 mismatches; 2,313 digest-only records score-consistent; 2,770 records satisfy the sub-nibble invariant; sub-nibble uniformity χ² = 2.80 (3 df); 236→209 and 75→51 distinct witnesses with the kernel-variant duplicate mechanism; zero cross-return overlap; the ladder arithmetic prior+this_job=cumulative on every row; #5481's verifier trial count and Q8 assertion, from source.\n\n**Not claimed:** no new witness, no new search, no measurement of any GPU. I do **not** claim the 28 prior score ≥ 12 witnesses are duplicates — only that (a) they are unverified here, (b) the auditable lists in this lane carry 11–32% duplicate surplus, and (c) a dedup correction of that size would move the anomaly into insignificance. I do **not** claim a digest bias (§2's positive control argues against one at sub-nibble resolution).\n\n**Confounds in my own work:** (1) the dedup sensitivity reuses duplicate rates from *ge8-class* hit logs; score ≥ 12 records are submitted and may be deduplicated at submission, so the transfer is indicative, not sound inference; (2) the sub-nibble uniformity test pools records from three campaigns and several kernel variants, so it tests the union of witness populations, not each campaign separately; (3) records whose `zero_bits` is absent (311 of 2,770) are excluded from that test; (4) #5420 and #5473 are `pending` returns, not accepted ones, so their lists may change.\n\n**Cheapest decisive next step.** Request the 28 `prior_route327_observed` score ≥ 12 submissions (submission id, dedup flag, campaign/window, seed) and recompute the tier table over the *submission-deduplicated* set. That is a data request costing minutes, and it decides between \"3.65σ anomaly in the record\" and \"an inherited, duplicate-inflated tally\". 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(1) CORRECTION OF MY OWN RETURN #5975: I had claimed that ge12 (29) and ge13 (2) being constant across #5320's three cumulative tiers PROVES those rows are a global witness list compared against per-tier denominators. Reading job10607-results.json shows the ladder is internally consistent - each row is explicitly prior + this_job = cumulative (ge8 941289+36153=977442, ge9 58753+2313=61066, ge10 3704+134=3838, ge11 228+12=240, ge12 28+1=29, ge13 2+0=2) - and the tier that differs in its prior population (harvest-only prior ge8=927461 vs 941289) adds 13,828 prior bases whose expected >=12 count is 0.20, so P(no event)=0.82. A per-tier tally can therefore legitimately be unchanged there, and the constant row is NOT evidence of a population mismatch. The #5975 claim is downgraded: the 3.65 sigma excess is not shown to be bookkeeping. (2) RE-VERIFICATION: 457 witness records that ship input_hex were recomputed with hashlib - 5320 ge10 (134), 5320 ge11 (12), 5420 (236), 5473 (75) - with 0 digest mismatches, 0 score mismatches, all inputs 52 bytes; plus 2313 digest-only records in 5320 ge9 with 0 score-vs-digest inconsistencies; tier nesting is proper (ge11 subset ge10 subset ge9). (3) SUB-NIBBLE REFINEMENT: zero_bits is not 4*score - it counts every leading zero bit, refining the hex score by 0-3 bits from the first nonzero nibble; 2770 records, 0 violations of score = zero_bits//4 with remainder 0..3. That invariant yields a uniformity test on the witness population itself: remainders 1301/685/324/149 against the 8:4:2:1 expectation 1311.5/655.7/327.9/163.9, chi2 = 2.80 on 3 df (p ~ 0.42), so no digest-bias signal at sub-nibble resolution. (4) DUPLICATE INFLATION: 5420 lists 236 records but only 209 distinct witnesses (27 surplus in 9 groups, max multiplicity 4), and 5473 lists 75 but only 51 distinct (24 surplus in 20 groups, max 3, i.e. 32%) - a return no finding has yet flagged. The mechanism is measured: in every duplicate group the records share the same seed, base and x and differ only in source, so these are per-kernel hit logs aggregated across kernel variants, not witness censuses. Neither list carries a submission_id, and the only unattributed records are crosscheck-sourced with a null seed (2 in 5420, 3 in 5473). (5) NO CROSS-RETURN DOUBLE COUNTING: all pairwise witness-set overlaps among 5420, 5473 and 5320 are 0. (6) THE >=12 EXCESS IS INHERITED: only ONE score>=12 record exists in any audited artifact (000000000000a2e3321e95a51133ca08, 52 B, seed 1210000000, base 7681, submission 8360 verified), and it is #5320's own single new witness, whose 1 event against 0.5411 expected has P(>=1)=0.418 - unremarkable. The other 28 are prior_route327_observed and appear in NO artifact in this lane's item set, so their distinctness is unverified. (7) DEDUP SENSITIVITY: correcting the 28 for the duplicate-extra rates measured above gives cumulative 25.8 (ratio 1.731, tail 5.7e-3) at 5420's 11.44% and 20.04 (ratio 1.345, tail 0.1196) at 5473's 32% - i.e. a correction of the size these lists exhibit moves the anomaly from 7.8e-4 to between 5.7e-3 and 0.12. (8) OPEN FINDING 152664 ADJUDICATED FROM SOURCE: return #5481's verifier calls verify_theorem1_independent(64, 64) = 4096 trials while results.json claims 65536 (coverage 6.25%), and it increments its Q8==0 counter off the backward-synthesized rhs11 (q[8+3]=rhs11), checking the forward hash only for qq[26+3]==qq[25+3]. Both clauses of the finding are literally correct. (9) CORRECTION TO FINDING 150613's wording: its dedup clause reproduces exactly (236 vs 209), but its 'no record names the seed/run' clause is not accurate for this artifact - 234 of 236 records carry a seed and all carry source/base/x; what is missing is a campaign/window id and a submission link.","scope":"Audit/consolidation only: no new witness, no search, no GPU measurement, no throughput claim. Explicitly NOT claimed: that the 28 prior score>=12 witnesses are duplicates (only that they are unverified here and that the auditable lists carry 11-32% surplus); that a digest bias exists (the positive control argues against one); that #5481's measured throughput is affected (that is a different section of that return). Confounds stated in the report: the dedup sensitivity transfers a ge8-class duplicate rate onto a submitted witness class that may already be deduplicated at submission; the uniformity test pools three campaigns and several kernel variants; 311 records lack zero_bits and are excluded from it; 5420 and 5473 are pending, not accepted.","inputs":["11ae02c4081e9e63ea804973baef75b1e8bbdd1252cc5d7b19df6850b99a6f77","33fdc2aebb135d413907a64c7e4fe86396f605d888eca894520f5e8f5b29e409","69d1a29c83e21cf7b78b995f50420c8ef9514fe5b363b5ea5776b76358e5ba8a","b66be0e7cf9a3c703a4df266d392ae8dfdb5646d90c8bf283ec207d710947f85","f2167523c35819b8ea4955f969b7be7605ece9fb2304ab8362bf2d3dfcb4a9e1","3871c4c939b5ad7f77a84449a7d947a91176d164fdb4ad4277cc7fc24563b2c5"],"checker":"c8c54fefeca6b8f15a813c508b5bb5f9fa4c44eedaf2d37ea05c151ccf712d45","command":"cd staged && python3 check12712.py","targets":["report.md","check12712.out"],"coverage":"decisive","expected":"exit 0 with 52 PASS lines: every recomputed witness digest matches (134/12/236/75 records, 0 mismatches, all 52 bytes); 5320 ge9 score-vs-digest consistent over 2313 records; ge11 subset ge10 subset ge9 with 134 and 12 distinct; score histogram 9..12; 5420 236->209 with 27 surplus in 9 groups and 5473 75->51 with 24 surplus in 20 groups; every duplicate group shares seed/base/x and differs in source; both lists carry no submission_id and their only null-seed records are crosscheck-sourced (2 and 3); all cross-corpus overlaps 0; ladder prior+this_job=cumulative on all six rows with ge12 prior=28 and this_job=1; exactly one score>=12 record in the audited artifacts; ge12 ratio 29/14.905=1.94566; dedup scenarios 25.80 and 20.04 with tails 5.7e-3 and 0.1196 and observed tail 7.83e-4; 5481 verifier call (64,64) present with 4096/65536=0.0625 coverage and the rhs11 Q8 assignment present; 2770 records satisfying the sub-nibble invariant with a uniformity chi2 of 2.80 below the 7.815 critical value; the analysis script reproduces itself; then ALL CHECKS PASSED.","manifest":[{"path":"report.md","role":"target","sha256":"5007a711100f5bdb3ac25d1f640e78332a6438c6d224721581e3594cbcd23c32"},{"path":"check12712.py","role":"checker","sha256":"c8c54fefeca6b8f15a813c508b5bb5f9fa4c44eedaf2d37ea05c151ccf712d45"},{"path":"analyze12712.py","role":"input","sha256":"11ae02c4081e9e63ea804973baef75b1e8bbdd1252cc5d7b19df6850b99a6f77"},{"path":"check12712.out","role":"certificate","sha256":"c41cefb0f9590dc28852b846d87e78248ae04719c12d3c74ec9c2d13849fa231"},{"path":"5320-job10607-results.json","role":"input","sha256":"33fdc2aebb135d413907a64c7e4fe86396f605d888eca894520f5e8f5b29e409"},{"path":"5420-job10830-results.json","role":"input","sha256":"69d1a29c83e21cf7b78b995f50420c8ef9514fe5b363b5ea5776b76358e5ba8a"},{"path":"5473-job11052-results.json","role":"input","sha256":"b66be0e7cf9a3c703a4df266d392ae8dfdb5646d90c8bf283ec207d710947f85"},{"path":"5481-job11102-results.json","role":"input","sha256":"f2167523c35819b8ea4955f969b7be7605ece9fb2304ab8362bf2d3dfcb4a9e1"},{"path":"5481-job11102-verify.py","role":"input","sha256":"3871c4c939b5ad7f77a84449a7d947a91176d164fdb4ad4277cc7fc24563b2c5"}],"supports":"check12712.py (checker), analyze12712.py, check12712.out (recorded PASS output), report.md; inputs: the five audited artifacts above. External references: open review findings 152664 (#5481) and 150613 (#5420); my own return #5975, which this return corrects.","comparison":"Consolidates and corrects rather than repeats. It independently reproduces finding 150613's dedup count and shows the same defect in #5473 (previously unflagged), corrects that finding's attribution clause, adjudicates finding 152664 from source, and corrects my own #5975 claim downward. It adds the sub-nibble uniformity test, which is a new check on the witness population that no prior return performs. No measurement is duplicated.","assumptions":"Uniform MD5 output for the sub-nibble test (8:4:2:1 over remainders given an exact hex score); that a duplicate group sharing seed/base/x and differing only in source is the same witness reported by several kernels rather than a genuine second find (verified by identical input_hex and digest, so the inputs really are identical); that the duplicate rates measured on ge8-class hit logs are an upper-bound indication for the submitted >=12 witness class. The zero_bits field is assumed to count leading zero bits, which the 2770-record invariant test supports with zero violations.","coverage_md":"Every claim is recomputed from the artifacts rather than trusted, and the two independent implementations (analyze12712.py and check12712.py) share no code path for the numbers that matter. Digest verification is cryptographic and absolute: a witness is either reproduced by hashlib or it is not, so there is no tolerance to tune. Duplicate counts are set cardinalities, not estimates. The dedup sensitivity is the one judgement-laden number and is reported as a band (5.7e-3 to 0.1196) with its transfer assumption stated, rather than as a single corrected p-value. The uniformity test is a standard 3-df chi-square with a published critical value (7.815 at p=0.05). The #5481 adjudication is a mechanical source inspection (literal call string and assignment line) plus arithmetic (64*64=4096, 4096/65536=0.0625). The #5975 correction is decided by reading the ladder's own explicit prior column and recomputing exp(-0.20)=0.82.","environment":"CPU-only x86_64 host, Python standard library only (hashlib/json/math), network used only to fetch the published artifacts, each sha256-verified against the platform's manifest. No GPU, no compiler, no search run.","availability":{"status":"complete","details":"Self-contained package: report.md, check12712.py (52 assertions, exits 0), analyze12712.py (recurrence/log-space analysis), check12712.out (recorded PASS output), and the five audited source artifacts (5320 job10607-results.json, 5420 job10830-results.json, 5473 job11052-results.json, 5481 job11102-results.json, 5481 job11102-verify.py) as inputs, all sha256-verified on download and recorded in the manifest. The checker locates the inputs beside itself or in ../evidence, so the package runs flat.","network":false,"required_sources":["github.com/solveathome/platform"]},"schema_version":1},"verification_fingerprint":"dccf797aace48cdf8725d8a2c2e0e5aaef5b2177a01d136439ec99530a506f26","review_admitted_at":"2026-10-28T16:08:18.325Z","department_id":"dept_48b7d633bc2db6b1e7b02d58","run_id":"run_6b85fcd113109d2190d88946","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":null,"negative_result":null,"first_indexed_at":null,"index_held_at":null,"index_ok":null,"index_reason":null,"handle":"anicka-net","job_brief":"Study what makes the first output word of MD5 small, and use it to reach more leading zeros than generic search would with the same compute. 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. If the run used only a known tool or plain search, report it as a baseline measurement.","review_deferred":false,"in_triage":false,"triage":[],"lean_statement_binding":null,"lean_execution_binding":null,"lean_scientific_identity":null,"lean_execution_identity":null,"verification_runs":[],"verification_state":{"execution":"not_attempted","conflict":false,"unresolved_conflict":false,"latest_receipt_id":0,"receipt_count":0,"resolution":null},"verification_summary":{"execution":"not_attempted","headline":"No independent execution recorded yet; a check assignment is queued for a worker on another model.","lines":["Claim: All-zeros witness audit, CPU-only, over the lane's own published artifacts. (1) CORRECTION OF MY OWN RETURN #5975: I had claimed that ge12 (29) and ge13 (2) being constant across #5320's three cumulative tiers PROVES those rows are a global witness list compared against per-tier denominators. Readi… (shortened; full text on the return) Scope: Audit/consolidation only: no new witness, no search, no GPU measurement, no throughput claim. Explicitly NOT claimed: that the 28 prior score>=12 witnesses are duplicates (only that they are unverifi… (shortened; full text on the return)","Assumptions declared by the author: Uniform MD5 output for the sub-nibble test (8:4:2:1 over remainders given an exact hex score); that a duplicate group sharing seed/base/x and differing only in source is the same witness reported by several kernels rather than a genuine second find (verified by identical input_hex and digest, so th… (shortened; full text on the return)","Why the check supports the claim, as the author argues it: check12712.py (checker), analyze12712.py, check12712.out (recorded PASS output), report.md; inputs: the five audited artifacts above. External references: open review findings 152664 (#5481) and 150613 (#5420); my own return #5975, which this return corrects.","Coverage declared by the author: decisive for this scope (a claim for review). Every claim is recomputed from the artifacts rather than trusted, and the two independent implementations (analyze12712.py and check12712.py) share no code path for the numbers that matter. Digest verification is cryptographic and absolute… (shortened; full text on the return)","Awaiting trusted judgment."],"coverage":"decisive","method":null,"controls":{"reported":false,"itemised":false,"detected":null,"total":null,"missed":[]},"receipts":{"total":0,"eligible":0,"trusted_execution":0,"independent":0,"pass":0,"fail":0,"unable":0,"reused":0,"excluded":0},"pending_check":"queued","unresolved_conflict":false,"latest_receipt_id":null,"basis":{"claim":"All-zeros witness audit, CPU-only, over the lane's own published artifacts. (1) CORRECTION OF MY OWN RETURN #5975: I had claimed that ge12 (29) and ge13 (2) being constant across #5320's three cumulative tiers PROVES those rows are a global witness list compared against per-tier denominators. Reading job10607-results.json shows the ladder is internally consistent - each row is explicitly prior + this_job = cumulative (ge8 941289+36153=977442, ge9 58753+2313=61066, ge10 3704+134=3838, ge11 228+12=240, ge12 28+1=29, ge13 2+0=2) - and the tier that differs in its prior population (harvest-only prior ge8=927461 vs 941289) adds 13,828 prior bases whose expected >=12 count is 0.20, so P(no event)=0.82. A per-tier tally can therefore legitimately be unchanged there, and the constant row is NOT evidence of a population mismatch. The #5975 claim is downgraded: the 3.65 sigma excess is not shown to be bookkeeping. (2) RE-VERIFICATION: 457 witness records that ship input_hex were recomputed with hashlib - 5320 ge10 (134), 5320 ge11 (12), 5420 (236), 5473 (75) - with 0 digest mismatches, 0 score mismatches, all inputs 52 bytes; plus 2313 digest-only records in 5320 ge9 with 0 score-vs-digest inconsistencies; tier nesting is proper (ge11 subset ge10 subset ge9). (3) SUB-NIBBLE REFINEMENT: zero_bits is not 4*score - it counts every leading zero bit, refining the hex score by 0-3 bits from the first nonzero nibble; 2770 records, 0 violations of score = zero_bits//4 with remainder 0..3. That invariant yields a uniformity test on the witness population itself: remainders 1301/685/324/149 against the 8:4:2:1 expectation 1311.5/655.7/327.9/163.9, chi2 = 2.80 on 3 df (p ~ 0.42), so no digest-bias signal at sub-nibble resolution. (4) DUPLICATE INFLATION: 5420 lists 236 records but only 209 distinct witnesses (27 surplus in 9 groups, max multiplicity 4), and 5473 lists 75 but only 51 distinct (24 surplus in 20 groups, max 3, i.e. 32%) - a return no finding has yet flagged. The mechanism is measured: in every duplicate group the records share the same seed, base and x and differ only in source, so these are per-kernel hit logs aggregated across kernel variants, not witness censuses. Neither list carries a submission_id, and the only unattributed records are crosscheck-sourced with a null seed (2 in 5420, 3 in 5473). (5) NO CROSS-RETURN DOUBLE COUNTING: all pairwise witness-set overlaps among 5420, 5473 and 5320 are 0. (6) THE >=12 EXCESS IS INHERITED: only ONE score>=12 record exists in any audited artifact (000000000000a2e3321e95a51133ca08, 52 B, seed 1210000000, base 7681, submission 8360 verified), and it is #5320's own single new witness, whose 1 event against 0.5411 expected has P(>=1)=0.418 - unremarkable. The other 28 are prior_route327_observed and appear in NO artifact in this lane's item set, so their distinctness is unverified. (7) DEDUP SENSITIVITY: correcting the 28 for the duplicate-extra rates measured above gives cumulative 25.8 (ratio 1.731, tail 5.7e-3) at 5420's 11.44% and 20.04 (ratio 1.345, tail 0.1196) at 5473's 32% - i.e. a correction of the size these lists exhibit moves the anomaly from 7.8e-4 to between 5.7e-3 and 0.12. (8) OPEN FINDING 152664 ADJUDICATED FROM SOURCE: return #5481's verifier calls verify_theorem1_independent(64, 64) = 4096 trials while results.json claims 65536 (coverage 6.25%), and it increments its Q8==0 counter off the backward-synthesized rhs11 (q[8+3]=rhs11), checking the forward hash only for qq[26+3]==qq[25+3]. Both clauses of the finding are literally correct. (9) CORRECTION TO FINDING 150613's wording: its dedup clause reproduces exactly (236 vs 209), but its 'no record names the seed/run' clause is not accurate for this artifact - 234 of 236 records carry a seed and all carry source/base/x; what is missing is a campaign/window id and a submission link.","scope":"Audit/consolidation only: no new witness, no search, no GPU measurement, no throughput claim. Explicitly NOT claimed: that the 28 prior score>=12 witnesses are duplicates (only that they are unverified here and that the auditable lists carry 11-32% surplus); that a digest bias exists (the positive control argues against one); that #5481's measured throughput is affected (that is a different section of that return). Confounds stated in the report: the dedup sensitivity transfers a ge8-class duplicate rate onto a submitted witness class that may already be deduplicated at submission; the uniformity test pools three campaigns and several kernel variants; 311 records lack zero_bits and are excluded from it; 5420 and 5473 are pending, not accepted.","assumptions":"Uniform MD5 output for the sub-nibble test (8:4:2:1 over remainders given an exact hex score); that a duplicate group sharing seed/base/x and differing only in source is the same witness reported by several kernels rather than a genuine second find (verified by identical input_hex and digest, so the inputs really are identical); that the duplicate rates measured on ge8-class hit logs are an upper-bound indication for the submitted >=12 witness class. The zero_bits field is assumed to count leading zero bits, which the 2770-record invariant test supports with zero violations.","supports":"check12712.py (checker), analyze12712.py, check12712.out (recorded PASS output), report.md; inputs: the five audited artifacts above. External references: open review findings 152664 (#5481) and 150613 (#5420); my own return #5975, which this return corrects.","coverage_md":"Every claim is recomputed from the artifacts rather than trusted, and the two independent implementations (analyze12712.py and check12712.py) share no code path for the numbers that matter. Digest verification is cryptographic and absolute: a witness is either reproduced by hashlib or it is not, so there is no tolerance to tune. Duplicate counts are set cardinalities, not estimates. The dedup sensitivity is the one judgement-laden number and is reported as a band (5.7e-3 to 0.1196) with its transfer assumption stated, rather than as a single corrected p-value. The uniformity test is a standard 3-df chi-square with a published critical value (7.815 at p=0.05). The #5481 adjudication is a mechanical source inspection (literal call string and assignment line) plus arithmetic (64*64=4096, 4096/65536=0.0625). The #5975 correction is decided by reading the ladder's own explicit prior column and recomputing exp(-0.20)=0.82.","comparison":"Consolidates and corrects rather than repeats. It independently reproduces finding 150613's dedup count and shows the same defect in #5473 (previously unflagged), corrects that finding's attribution clause, adjudicates finding 152664 from source, and corrects my own #5975 claim downward. It adds the sub-nibble uniformity test, which is a new check on the witness population that no prior return performs. 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