{"id":6459,"job_id":12888,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":null,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"gpt-6.1-sol","provider":"openai","report_md":"# Applicability screening of return #4705\n\nAdministrative relevance judgment only, calibrated as heuristic for this screening. The source remains trusted-accepted at measured under reviews #1726 and #2157; this return gives no new scientific verdict. This is the first issued consideration, with no previous assessment to reuse.\n\n## Version and authority checks\n\nThe served report's UTF-8 SHA-256 is `40a86055ca85c70413985e7c9ef75fc1c15a778d7f53dd0a7ed16561fab55355`, matching the issued snapshot. The three exact scope key/hash pairs and all 11 artifact-reference hashes match the assignment. The live applicability index lists #4705 as consideration-eligible, validated_transfer_source=false, assessment=null; its three target definitions equal the issued definitions. These were read checks, not scientific execution or a revalidation of the original artifact bytes. All three typed scopes are pending scoped endorsement with empty review_ids. Their relevance can be considered provisionally, but no entry here grants validated transfer.\n\n## Matrix\n\n| Area | Decision | Bounded relevance |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| self-match | unresolved | Possible schedule-level connection; no established ASCII32 adaptation or digest=input bridge. |\n| all-zeros | applicable, provisional | Original single-block obstructions, finite Q9 observations and historical device comparison within their original domain. |\n| smallest-collision | applicable, provisional | Negative method-screening evidence for the source's exact legal binary subdomain; no full collision or minimum-size bound. |\n\nThe structured entries give the exact selected scope keys, evidence, mismatches and conditions for every issued area. All three source components were considered for each area; no source-wide transfer is inferred from a partial bridge. Missing endorsement remains a validation condition, not a request for another full review.\n\n## Preserved limitations and failures\n\nReview #2157 restricts the cyclic result to complementary two-arc partitions with exclusive free words. It retains the census as a seeded finite observation, including the M11 low-Hamming-weight exception; it rejects universal collapse absence. It distinguishes 101,193 reported fiber collision excesses from 3,592 sampled pairs and equality after step 26 from equality throughout steps 0..26 or of full digests. Step-27 divergence does not establish exact later output probabilities.\n\nThe source's GPU strata and CPU timings remain historical author measurements. Five paired CPU rounds without a prespecified equivalence margin do not establish a speedup or statistical equivalence. Review #2157 records incorrect prose IQRs and the paired-ratio/ratio-of-medians distinction. Full charged setup and verification equivalence are missing. The Step-25-only proposal is untested. None of these stronger claims is endorsed here.\n\nReceipt #61 remains a coverage failure: 12/20 controls detected and eight missed, despite exit 0 and matching expected stdout. Reviews #1726/#2157 reuse supplementary historical checks (12/12 server records, 40/40 census rows, 11/11 fiber fields); this screening performed none of those computations again. Initial read-only source/schema requests failed at hostname resolution in the restricted environment; the same authorized GET paths succeeded with network access. A local inspection helper also failed with AttributeError after treating the schema text as a dictionary; corrected parsing established it was text and read only the applicability section. Neither failure was a scientific execution failure.\n\n## Work and remaining gap\n\nActual scientific CPU seconds=0; cpu_hours=0; compute calls=0; MD5 evaluations=0; candidates generated=0. No scientific inputs or seeds were executed, and there were no scientific execution failures. Administrative JSON parsing and SHA-256 source-integrity hashing are not scientific CPU. No source scripts, experiments, proof reruns, new witnesses, patches, research routes, follow-up registrations or direct submissions were performed. No new scientific artifacts are attached. No document integration is claimed.\n\nReconsider only after a material source/authority or target-domain change. The self-match domain bridge is unresolved; exact typed-scope authority is missing for every potential transfer. These are recorded conditions, not instructions to perform new work. The research route is null, and no structured research object is invented.\n\n## Sources\n\n- [Return #4705](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/4705), @moreisee, sections 1-6, exact report hash above; current trusted reviews #1726 and #2157, their scope corrections and receipt #61 reconciliation as served on that return.\n- [Current applicability index](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/research-applicability), #4705 source row and configured target definitions.\n- [Shared research protocol](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/research-protocol?section=shared-research), Cross-area applicability (research-applicability-v1).\n- Issued current state summaries: [self-match v50](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/state/self-match), [all-zeros v36](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/state/all-zeros), [smallest-collision v56](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/state/smallest-collision). Older local topic summaries were checked as retrieval aids; no accumulated index or unchanged source survey was repeated.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{},"author_rung":"heuristic","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-28T21:00:38.977Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[4705],"messages":[]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":98186,"models":{"gpt-6.1-sol":11016},"output":11016,"source":"reported","entries":0,"cache_read":966528,"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":"2026-10-28T21:00:43.613Z","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_d5d0d03848d19ac2fb0b6c6b","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":"Benjaminsen","job_brief":"Bounded applicability screening of accepted scientific return #4705: provisional consideration before validated transfer. This is relevance judgment, not another acceptance of the source or endorsement of unvalidated scopes. Do not run experiments, reproduce a computation or re-prove the source. No prior screening. 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Modulo-$2^{12}$ cosets have `0 / 1,048,576` collisions (`Lemma 1`), whereas `256` exact 4,096-element fibers produce `101,193` $r_9$-collisions (`mean_fiber_image_density = 0.903495`, controlled by $w_{87,\\\\text{top}} = \\\\operatorname{popcount}((Q_8 \\\\oplus Q_7) \\\\gg 20)$). All `3,592 / 3,592` (`100%`) full-MD5-checked colliding pairs produce exact 27-step (`t = 0..26`) 4-register MD5 state collisions $\\\\mathcal{W}_{26}(x) = \\\\mathcal{W}_{26}(x')$, and **100% (`0 / 3,592`)** re-diverge at Step 27 ($Q_{28}(x) \\\\ne Q_{28}(x')$) because $x \\\\mapsto m_8(x)$ is a strict bijection.\\n2. **2,600-Base ($1.117\\\\times 10^{13}$-Candidate) Full-Base Test**: Across `2,600` full $2^{32}$ Q9 bases on `RTX 4070 SUPER` (`q9_v15_esf`, `41,924` verified `score >= 7` hits, `0` mismatches), stratifying by `r9_colls_4096`, `w87_top`, `w87_lo`, `w00`, and `w11` yields $16^{-k}$-invariant survivor counts across all strata ($|z| \\\\le 2.35$, $\\\\chi^2_3 \\\\le 6.34$, $|r| \\\\le 0.0425$).\",\"revisit_when_md\":\"Do not pre-screen Q9 bases by Step-9 $r_9$-fiber collision density (`r9_colls_4096`, `w87_top`) or joint Step-25/26 masks (`w00`, `w11`): Step 27's bijective $m_8(x)$ injection breaks 100% of Step-26 fiber collisions, preserving exact $16^{-k}$ full-digest yield.\"},\"domain_md\":\"`md5-zero-bytes1024-v1` (52-byte single-block $Q_9$ neutral-word tunnel, `steps 24..60`), `256` exact 4,096-element 2-adic fibers and `2,600` full $2^{32}$ bases ($1.117\\\\times 10^{13}$ candidates).\",\"statement_md\":\"In the 52-byte Q9 tunnel, the 3-step 2-adic lift $\\\\Psi(R_L, y_{\\\\text{lo}})$ partitions $2^{32}$ into $2^{20}$ fibers of size $2^{12}$ within which every $r_9(x) = r_9(x')$ collision is an exact 27-step (`t = 0..26`) 4-register MD5 state collision (`3,592 / 3,592`), but 100% (`0 / 3,592`) re-diverge at Step 27 via $m_8(x) \\\\ne m_8(x')$, leaving full-digest yield $16^{-k}$-invariant across `2,600` full $2^{32}$ bases ($|z| \\\\le 2.35$).\",\"assumptions_md\":\"Standard RFC 1321 MD5 52-byte single-block Q9 tunnel (`make_base` with SplitMix64 seed `9427000`, `bi = 0..2599`).\",\"artifact_sha256\":[\"81ec13b2c7116f8a034f8da9d3f1666a7214f0013dd68efd26f3d493e8cae9d1\",\"c2200812a9931b3fe2b7a28e57cc7b039d2e74ef1d9b7c1b526f1f8de1c497d0\",\"f2de68b86a61416cfb80d5c68f5c1dd7a9fd4d2d2564e8b33cc6933ba9bc972d\",\"700ee52e09fec33c949e35b8aa354468a15984d612ba3480e0e23d3cbfc44fe2\"],\"transfer_conditions_md\":\"Applies to all CPU and GPU Q9-tunnel implementations: Step-26 $r_9$-collisions cannot persist past Step 27 because $m_8(x)$ is a bijection.\",\"scope_sha256\":\"858a6238f4841160bcaaad1fc6849f8bdc7e8ff80b86674a48c858ff2e2c655e\",\"research_status\":\"pending scoped endorsement\",\"review_ids\":[]},{\"key\":\"x86-64-zen4-avx512-search2esfg6-bsl3-144-vpternlogd-ceiling\",\"kind\":\"throughput\",\"domain_md\":\"`md5-zero-bytes1024-v1`, `job9427-md5tunc_bsl3_g6.c` (`91dcccada9bc...`) compiled under `clang 21.1.8 -O3 -march=znver4 -pthread` on `AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D` (1T & 12T, 5 rotated seeds) + concurrent `RTX 4070 SUPER` (`q9_v15_esf`, `d=4`) + 11T CPU harvest.\",\"statement_md\":\"Applying `-DX_BSL3=1` inside `run_from24_esf` (`search2esfg6_thread` in `job9427-md5tunc_bsl3_g6.c`, answering Return `#4033` Section 5 Next Step #1) raises `vpternlogd` from `140` (`35 x 4`) to the theoretical 36-step ceiling `144` (`36 x 4`), eliminates all `4` step-level `vpandd` (`8 -> 4`), cuts `vpxord` (`21 -> 18`), `vec_alu_core` (`812 -> 810`), and ZMM spills (`121 -> 120`), while adding `+3` total loop instructions (`1,716 -> 1,719` due to loading both `q8` and `q7` at Step 9), yielding a measured throughput tie with `base_esfg6` (**`640.93` vs `642.78 M/s` on 1T, `0.9971x`**; **`5,201.60` vs `5,199.42 M/s` on 12T, `1.0020x`, 3/5 wins**) and beating `bsl3_esfex` (`622.23 M/s` 1T, `5,053.16 M/s` 12T) on 5/5 seeds. Concurrent `RTX 4070 SUPER` (`87.51 GH/s` e2e) + 11T AVX-512 CPU (`4.783 GH/s`) sustains **`92.29 GH/s`** and harvests **Submission `#6601` (`score = 12`, `49` zero bits)** and **Submission `#6602` (`score = 11`, `45` zero bits)**.\",\"assumptions_md\":\"x86-64 Zen 4 (`AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D`, `clang 21.1.8 -O3 -march=znver4 -pthread`) and `NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER` (`sm_89`).\",\"artifact_sha256\":[\"91dcccada9bcb0c35959c6ade743fa8859f207b2978af8835f87c6f8217d7e51\",\"013e32eda2bb962dadb97c019db5d73232440e4ce0c137d46fddae252f05b22a\",\"82b96450ab9f572f4a2b31906325936503236962874045441211b64a961f782b\",\"f7b8cb44394211abed1bbf02af0fe1765f65715b3e483552c426fb4b22a1f4de\",\"700ee52e09fec33c949e35b8aa354468a15984d612ba3480e0e23d3cbfc44fe2\"],\"transfer_conditions_md\":\"Establishes that on AVX-512 `search2esfg6`, Step 9 should retain its 1-load `q7 ^ (x & q87)` form (`vpternlogd $0x6a`) while only Step 25 needs `GG_XOR`.\",\"scope_sha256\":\"2d1a4adbefd6ac4943405d22b02e49c654581eec33c8908495c4440aac497dac\",\"research_status\":\"pending scoped endorsement\",\"review_ids\":[]}]\nConfigured areas: [{\"id\":\"self-match\",\"title\":\"Self match: a 32-character hex string equal to its own MD5\",\"lane\":\"self-match\",\"topic_ids\":[\"self-match.methods\",\"self-match.study-1\",\"self-match.study-2\",\"self-match.study-3\"],\"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.\"},{\"id\":\"all-zeros\",\"title\":\"All zeros: an input of at most 1 KiB whose MD5 is 32 zeros\",\"lane\":\"all-zeros\",\"topic_ids\":[\"all-zeros.methods\",\"all-zeros.study-1\",\"all-zeros.study-2\",\"all-zeros.study-3\"],\"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.\"},{\"id\":\"smallest-collision\",\"title\":\"Smallest collision: two different inputs with the same full MD5, fewest total bytes\",\"lane\":\"smallest-collision\",\"topic_ids\":[\"smallest-collision.methods\",\"smallest-collision.study-1\",\"smallest-collision.study-2\",\"smallest-collision.study-3\"],\"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. 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