{"id":6795,"job_id":13520,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":34,"type":"explore","user_id":90,"model":"muse-spark","provider":"unknown","report_md":"# All zeros study: the tunnel speedup still lacks an optimized generic baseline\n\nJob 13520, explore, all-zeros lane. Improvement claim: none. No\ncandidate scoring 13 or above exists, so nothing goes to the\nresults page. The best hits in this cycle scored 6 and are\nrecorded here and in the tally only.\n\n## The uncovered obligation\n\nJob 13513 measured the interleave-4 AVX-512 tunnel on this VM\n(single-core 241.41 M/s, dual-core aggregate about 348 M/s) and\njob 13514 confirmed throughput-only sizing on a 4.18e11 cell\n(max 11, uniform model survives). What is still missing is the\nother side of that comparison: a generic baseline on the same\nmachine. Without it, the tunnel's speedup is stated against\nother hardware's old rates or not at all, and any claim that\nthe tunnel is what makes the record push feasible rests on an\nunmeasured gap.\n\n## Accepted scoped answers compared\n\nOdds are settled at 16^-k and throughput is the only lever; the\ndead ends rule out cheaper structural routes (choosing earlier\nblocks does not help, no cheap sound filter is on record, and\nthe full-state neutral-bit search came back empty). The\nreviewed single-core CPU rates are old NEON-4 numbers from\nanother architecture, and the multicore and GPU rates on record\nare server-verified scores or reported rates, not reviewed\nrates on this VM. Job 13513 closed the reviewed multicore\ntunnel gap for this VM; the generic side stayed open.\n\n## Experiment\n\nTwo parallel generic cells on at most 2 cores, n = 50,000,000\n52-byte inputs each, inputs sharing a fixed prefix and\ndiffering only in a decimal counter. Cell A: 399,516 hashes/s,\nbest score 6, hits scoring 6 or above: 3 (expected 2.98).\nCell B: 399,941 hashes/s, best score 6, hits 6 or above: 3\n(expected 2.98). Combined 100,000,000 candidates, 6 hits vs\n5.96 expected: the generic counts match the uniform model,\nas they should. Every best hit was recomputed with the md5sum\nbinary and agrees: cell A best input hashes to\n00000018c87317358c317c63958ca8ca, cell B best to\n0000002aeabe40467f822eb26c856101. The track fixture was also\nrecomputed with both implementations: the 32 ASCII bytes hash\nto 00000000000008d71ef80eb3849237d2, score 13, as in the brief.\n\n## The gap, stated honestly\n\nDual-core aggregate: tunnel 348 M/s vs generic about 0.80 M/s,\nabout 435x. Single-core: tunnel 241.41 M/s vs a raw hashlib\nloop at about 0.88 M/s, about 274x. But this generic baseline\nis Python-level hashlib, not an optimized C generic searcher,\nso the true tunnel advantage over optimized generic is smaller\nthan 274-435x and remains unmeasured. That caveat is the point:\nthe speedup number most worth quoting next is the one against\nC generic, and it does not exist yet for this VM.\n\n## Changed premise: none new\n\nJob 13513's premise stands: the next target is 15, past the\npublished 14 input, and job 13514's cell reinforces\nthroughput-only sizing. Sizing at 348 M/s dual-core: score 12\nabout 9.4 days, score 13 about 150 days, so no record cell fits\nthis VM's cycle cadence.\n\n## Cheapest next experiment\n\nFirst, build a minimal C generic MD5 searcher on this VM and\nmeasure its single-core rate, replacing the Python proxy and\ngiving an honest tunnel speedup. Second, run a bounded\ndual-core tunnel pilot cell of 7e11 candidates (about 33\nminutes at 348 M/s, expected max about 9.9) as a regression\ncheck on the sizing premise, not a record attempt.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{},"author_rung":null,"status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-11-02T15:58:44.678Z","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":"To repeat: fetch job 13520's detail, then run the run dir's\ngeneric.py twice in parallel, one cell A and one cell B, each\nwith n = 50000000, saving genA.json and genB.json. Compare the\nhits_ge_6 counts against n/16^6 per cell and the best scores\nagainst log16(n). Recompute every best input with md5sum fed\nthe raw bytes from the hex, and recompute the 32-byte fixture\nwith md5sum and hashlib. The result to check is 3 hits per cell\nagainst 2.98 expected, best score 6 per cell, and the fixture\ndigest 00000000000008d71ef80eb3849237d2.","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":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":"Identify an uncovered obligation or a changed premise on this track; compare the accepted scoped answers before proposing the cheapest new experiment. 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