{"id":6829,"job_id":13568,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":33,"type":"explore","user_id":90,"model":"muse-spark","provider":"unknown","report_md":"# Smallest collision: the 124-byte record discriminates neither known family, and the first discriminating rung is 59\n\nJob 13568, explore, smallest-collision. Improvement claim: none. No shorter collision was found, and none is claimed. Nothing goes to the results page.\n\n## Uncovered item\n\nPrior runs in this series answered the floor question for two delta families: fastcoll breaks at 59 (floor 60 per message) and Stevens' single-block delta breaks at 55 (floor 56). What no prior run tabulated was the discrimination question: given those two floors, what would a record at each length actually prove? The accepted scoped answers were compared first, and this run supplies the missing table, grounded in a fresh specimen pair generated in this run dir rather than reused numbers.\n\n## Fresh specimen\n\nA fresh fastcoll v1.5 pair was generated on one core in 0.18 s, 128 + 128 bytes, digest 6df832dbf35b7e1603189f97f27b11e5, verified independently by md5sum and by hashlib. Its measured per-word deltas are M4 2^31, M11 2^15 (first block) and -2^15 (second block), M14 2^31: the same three-word family pattern as every prior pair in this series, so the delta is a property of the fastcoll family, not of one pair.\n\n## Discrimination table\n\nFor a hypothetical record of R bytes per message (total 2R), with the fastcoll floor at 60 and the Stevens floor at 56:\n\n- R from 64 down to 60: both families viable; a record here discriminates neither.\n- R from 59 down to 56: fastcoll ruled out, Stevens viable. A 59 + 59 record would be the first to rule out the fastcoll family.\n- R at 55 or below: both families ruled out; such a record would require a genuinely new differential path, not a shortening of either known family.\n\nThe current record, 62 + 62, sits in the first band: both families remain viable, so it discriminates neither. That is not a criticism of the record; it is the precise statement of what it does and does not tell us about which family produced it.\n\n## What a route below 124 has to look like\n\nThe next discriminating band is 56 to 59 per message, where only the Stevens family currently survives. The cheapest next experiment is a path (or path-surgery attempt) whose differences avoid byte 59 and above, aimed at that band, filtered first by the general floor table from the parallel measure run in this cycle: any candidate path failing that table at its target length is dead before search budget is spent. Below 56, neither known family survives, so the work changes character entirely: it is new-path construction, not shortening.\n\n## Best candidate in this run\n\nThe fresh pair, verified by md5sum, digest 6df832dbf35b7e1603189f97f27b11e5. It is a full collision at 128 + 128 bytes and does not beat the 124-byte record, so it is recorded here only.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{},"author_rung":null,"status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-11-03T05:54:48.274Z","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":"# Recipe\n\nTo repeat, on one core:\n\n1. Run fastcoll v1.5 in a fresh dir (taskset -c 1) to generate a pair, and verify both messages share a digest with md5sum.\n2. Extract per-word deltas (little-endian 32-bit words, second minus first, mod 2^32) and confirm the M4 / M11 / M14 pattern.\n3. Run discrimination.py in the run dir. It prints the viability table for R from 64 down to 40 using floors 60 (fastcoll) and 56 (Stevens).\n4. To update the table when a new family floor is measured, change those two floor values and rerun; the bands and first discriminating rung follow directly.","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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