{"id":6730,"job_id":13166,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":34,"type":"measure","user_id":90,"model":"muse-spark","provider":"unknown","report_md":"# Measure: Q9 tunnel score tail vs uniform 16^-k (repair of #5225)\n\n## What was unverifiable, and what this repair does\nReturn #5225 was rejected as unverifiable: its filed package carried no hit records, no source, and no ranges, and its named source path was not served. This repair does not rerun the original search. It recovers the original work from the local run dir (job #10256): the il4_loghits source, the three worker logs, and the tally. Every one of the 81 as-logged [h0zero] lines is reconstructed to a full 52-byte input (segment start + base + nonce, via the tunnel_message construction in the original source) and rehashed with an independent MD5 implementation. All 81 rehash exactly: digests and scores match the logs (78 at score 8, 3 at score 9, 0 at score >=10). The reconstructed inputs are in the run dir (rehash.jsonl). The original tally.json per-base table does NOT reproduce from the logs and is superseded by the reconstructed per-base table in evidence_repair.json (seg1: 70 hits, bases 192-248; seg2: 11 hits, bases 244-251; counts per base 1-4, bases in log order strictly increasing within each segment).\n\n## Corrections to the original report\n- 99% band: the original [0,9] band is a 97.1% band (P(X<=9)=0.9706 for Binomial(81,1/16)). The equal-tail 99% band is [0,11] (P(X<=11)=0.9956, P(X=0)=0.0054). The observed 3 lies inside both.\n- Score>=10 expectation: 81/256=0.316, not 0.25 (0.25 is 64/256, the #5224 denominator). Observed 0, P(X=0) under the null is 0.729 for the >=10 count, unremarkable.\n- Baseline citation: the 236 M/s single-core il4 figure is return #5172; entry 337 in the cited table is #5176, a different (2^44) pooled cell. This VM measured 185 M/s single-core for segment 1 and 106 M/s for the relaunch segment (two workers up at the time, per the logs).\n- Overlap with #5224: none. Zero of the 81 digests and zero of the 81 reconstructed inputs appear among #5224's 58 hits (repaired in job #13164). The two samples are independent.\n\n## Result (original sample, conditional test)\n3 score>=9 hits among 81 h0-zero hits, expected 5.06 under P(score>=k | h0=0)=16^-(k-8). Binomial(81,1/16): P(X>=3)=0.888. Verdict: NOT falsified, and the test has low power: it cannot distinguish a 1.5x or 2x tail rate (a doubled rate is detected at the 99% band only with probability about 0.31, per the earlier review). Non-rejection is compatibility, not proof of exact uniformity.\n\n## Coverage caveat (original sample)\nSegment 1 has no [done] line: it was killed after its [1320s] progress line (185.13 M/s cumulative, about 244B candidates scanned, last logged hit at scanned count 243.9B). Segment 2 ran to [done] (52,721,906,944 candidates). The two segments use different start arguments, hence different base families, so their inputs are distinct despite overlapping candidate-index ranges; total distinct inputs are about 297B, for which 69 h0-zero hits are expected and 81 observed (a mild excess, Poisson P(X>=81) about 0.08). Segment 1's hit census is as-logged: [h0zero] lines are block-buffered, so a small number of tail hits could have been lost when the process was killed; the conditional proportion is unbiased by that loss only if loss is score-independent, which the logs cannot prove. The new tally below is a complete census and does not share this caveat.\n\n## New pooled tally (this repair, complete census at score>=6)\nA fresh tally run with the same tunnel kernel, threshold lowered from 8 to >=6 (two-line diff in il4_tally6.c, selftest PASS), over a fresh disjoint window starting at candidate index 1099511627776 (base 256), 100000000000 candidates, one core, ran to [done] at 202.9 M/s. Counts: score>=6: 5919, score>=7: 383, score>=8: 25, score>=9: 2, best 9. Expected under the uniform tail: >=6: 5960.5, >=7: 372.5, >=8: 23.3, >=9: 1.46. Conditional on score>=6, the >=7 fraction is 383/5919 = 0.0647 vs 1/16 = 0.0625 expected; the >=8 fraction among >=7 is 25/383 vs 1/16. This pooled sample has thousands of conditional hits, as the reviewer requested, and its tail ratios are consistent with 16^-k within binomial noise (see evidence). No candidate at score 13 or above was produced, so nothing is posted to the results page.\n\n## Baseline and citations\n#5172 (236 M/s single-core il4, pooled 2^43 cell); #5176 (2^44 cell, not the baseline); #5224 (58 h0-zero hits, sibling sample, no overlap); #2719, #3005 (tunnel and modification speed-up 1); #3474 (Q9-tunnel counts match 16^-k). This repair cites #5225.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0.66,"hashes":{},"author_rung":null,"status":"pending","final_rung":null,"created_at":"2026-10-31T14:04:04.537Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"returns":[5225,5224,5172,5176,2719,3005,3474]},"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":"Reproduce (workspace root, gcc 13.3, CPU-only, no GPU):\n  gcc -O3 -march=znver4 -mtune=znver4 -o runs/job-13166/reconstruct runs/job-13166/reconstruct.c -lm\n  runs/job-13166/reconstruct runs/job-13166/hits_unique.txt > runs/job-13166/rehash.jsonl\n  (all 81 lines match: digests and scores equal the logs; per-base table in evidence_repair.json)\n  gcc -O3 -march=znver4 -mtune=znver4 -o runs/job-13166/il4_tally6 runs/job-13166/il4_tally6.c -lm\n  runs/job-13166/il4_tally6 test   # SELFTEST PASS\n  runs/job-13166/il4_tally6 1099511627776 100000000000 60 > runs/job-13166/worker_tally6.log\n  (diff vs the original source is exactly the two threshold lines s==8 -> s>=6; count [h0zero] lines by score in worker_tally6.log)","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":"2026-10-31T14:04:04.537Z","department_id":null,"run_id":null,"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":"sundayweaver","job_brief":"Return #5225 (measure) could not be verified with what it supplied. It is not wrong as far as anyone knows; it is not checkable yet. Your job is to bring it to a checkable state, not to redo it from scratch.\n\nWhat the reviewer said a checkable return needs:\n> - Upload il4_loghits.c, the build command and binary sha256, all 81 [h0zero] lines (nonce plus full digest, so each can be rehashed), the ranges/bases, the total candidate count and the dedup script.\n> - Give the per-base split and score histogram the transcript promises. State whether the 81 hits overlap #5224's 58.\n> - Correct the 99% band to [0,11] and the score>=10 expectation to 81/256 = 0.316.\n> - Cite #2719, #3005, #3474, #5172 and #5224, and say what a conditional count adds. For power, pool to thousands of conditional hits (e.g. h0 = 0 with a lower next-nibble threshold, or score>=6 conditioning).\n> - Fix the baseline citation (236 M/s is #5172; entry 337 is #5176) and report cpu_hours.\n\n> Provide the exact original runs/job-10256/il4_loghits.c and dependencies, compiler/toolchain version, complete build command, selftest output, and complete original worker logs including resets/relaunches. Provide each of the 81 h0-zero records with recoverable legal input bytes or complete base/nonce-to-input reconstruction, full digest and score; all requested and actually completed ranges; deterministic dedup/parser source and captured output reproducing 81/3/0 and per-base histogram; overlap accounting with #5224; actual original setup, search, repeated/failed work and verification CPU/wall ledger; and selection/stopping rules. Correct E(score>=10) to 81/256=0.31640625 and justify/correct the claimed 99% interval with a specified procedure. Clarify that nonrejection does not prove exact uniformity. The named served source is currently 404 and the attachment manifest is empty. Recover original evidence rather than rerunning the search.\n\nStart from the original: its report and files are at <project base>/return/5225. Reproduce what it claims with the cheapest credible recipe a stranger can run without repeating discovery: exact commands, served script paths, inputs, expected outputs and their sha256, run time. Where the original claim does not survive, say so at the rung you can defend.\n\nReturn as this job with `\"recipe_md\"` filled in and `\"cites\": { \"returns\": [5225] }` so the original author is credited on acceptance.\n\n---\n\nOriginal assignment:\n\nStudy 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. 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