{"id":6870,"job_id":13609,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":34,"type":"explore","user_id":90,"model":"muse-spark","provider":"unknown","report_md":"# All zeros: accepted answers cover cs25 throughput and short-input census; the uncovered item is an il4-arm hit-count test of the uniform null\n\nJob 13609, explore, all-zeros.methods. Improvement claim: none. No new record is claimed, and nothing goes to the results page.\n\n## What was compared\n\nThe job supplied 40 context items: 34 accepted (22 at rung measured, 12 at rung verified) and 6 recorded. The accepted set falls into three groups.\n\nFirst, the recent cs25 Q9-tunnel series: returns 5481, 5477, 5473 and 5420, all accepted at measured. Their scopes are throughput and gate logic on the tunnel searcher: Q16 gate decoupling with a Q8=0 specialization, the step-60 epilogue carry gap, post-collapse step-26 sink peeling, and the step-24 entry ceiling, each paired with a GPU/CPU pipeline claim (512-slice work stealing, double-buffered 2-queue pinned OpenCL, C-host batch pipeline, 36-step Zen 4 AVX-512). Return 5481 was read directly. Its trusted review 2321 narrows the acceptance sharply: it endorses the gate-constructor evidence only, not the performance package, stating \"Improvement: not established.\" The claimed gains are small (Q8=0 specialization up 0.76% CPU, 512-slice work stealing up 4.40% node, tail imbalance cut 464.85x), and on the report's own numbers the node means (95.9240 and 95.7981 GH/s) fall below its preregistration threshold of 96.0 GH/s while inter-kernel gaps (8.471 and 9.961 us) exceed the 2.5 us limit. Throughput, tail, energy and codegen claims remain outside the endorsement, as do the coupled Q7=Q8 infeasibility assertion and any transferable performance guarantee.\n\nSecond, the older kernel and per-joule work: M1/M5Pro Neon interleave and epilogue studies, candidates-per-joule comparisons on M1 and on RTX 4070s beside Zen 4, and the Zen 4 AVX-512 codegen studies. These establish the fastest known way per machine for the tunnel searcher and the energy cost of candidates, on ARM and on GPU-beside-CPU setups.\n\nThird, the structural and census answers: return 3817, an exhaustive 4- and 5-byte leading-zero census; return 3466, the published-record three-way check at score 14; return 3123, a final-block prefix-sharing step-29 bound; return 3129, the two-byte reachable-CV selection null (8164 selected vs 8224 partner hits in 2,097,152 messages, null survives); and return 3724, low-weight h0 output prediction. None of these is a hit-count tally from a production search cell.\n\nAgainst that, the local CPU series on this VM is max-only: il4 cells of 2.88e11 candidates on fresh disjoint nonce ranges (most recently starts 45e12, 46e12, 47e12, 48e12, and the cell running under the sibling job this cycle), each ending at best score 9 with the top hits verified by hashlib recompute. The production binary tools/md5tun_avx512_il4 logs record-breaking candidates only (its source prints a line only when a candidate beats the running best), so no count at any threshold is recorded by any of these cells.\n\n## The uncovered item\n\nNo accepted item in the supplied context, and no local il4 cell, reports a hit-count tally for the production all-zeros arm. The uniform null makes count predictions, not just a max prediction: in a 2.88e11-candidate cell it expects about 1073 hits at score 7 or above, about 67 at 8 or above, about 4.19 at 9 or above, and about 0.26 at 10 or above. A best of 9 is the modal outcome under the null and is consistent with it, but it is also consistent with alternatives that shift the counts while leaving the maximum alone; the counts discriminate where the maximum does not. That is the uncovered obligation: an il4-arm count test of the uniform null, not another max-only cell and not a GPU-scale harvest.\n\nThis differs from the neighbouring tallies already on the record. Return 3129 counts selected-CV messages, not production search candidates. Return 3817 counts exhaustively over short inputs, not over a production search range. The self-match tally proposed and then run in the last cycle belongs to the self-match track and a different searcher; the all-zeros arm has no equivalent.\n\nChanged-premise check: review 2321 does correct a premise, but not one this proposal depends on. The cs25 performance premise (a 95.92 GH/s node resolving the predecessor obligations) is not established: the review endorses only the gate algebra, and the report's own node means miss its preregistration thresholds. Nothing in the compared answers contradicts the uniform null, the score-13 fixture, or the published record, so the finding remains an uncovered measurement, not a refutation. The tally proposal does not depend on any cs25 throughput claim, so the narrowing does not weaken it; it only means a future cs25 performance reproduction would still be an open, larger job, not the cheapest experiment here.\n\n## Cheapest new experiment proposed\n\nA 2.88e11-candidate il4 cell on one core (about 20 minutes at about 240 M/s single-core, about 27 minutes under dual-cell load), on a fresh disjoint nonce range, with a counter added to the existing searcher recording how many candidates reach score 7 or above, 8 or above, and 9 or above, and the best candidate re-verified with hashlib. Expected tallies under the null: about 1073, about 67, and about 4.19. A tally far from those counts (for example zero hits at 8 or above, or several at 10 or above) would be the signal the max-only cells could not give; a tally near them would extend the null's survival from the maximum to the counts. Cost is one core for under half an hour plus a small counter change to the existing searcher; no new algorithm and no GPU time are needed.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{},"author_rung":null,"status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-11-04T02:13:14.563Z","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 the comparison:\n\n1. List the job's supplied context items and count them by status and rung.\n2. Read return 5481 and review 2321 and note their scope (cs25 gate decoupling, Q8=0 specialization, work-stealing pipeline) and the measured gains (0.76% CPU, 4.40% node).\n3. Check the local il4 series: the most recent cells, their best scores, and what the search binary logs (record-breaking candidates only, per tools/md5tun_avx512_il4.c).\n4. Compute the uniform-null count expectations for a 2.88e11-candidate cell: 2.88e11 / 16^7 at 7 or above, / 16^8 at 8 or above, / 16^9 at 9 or above, / 16^10 at 10 or above.\n5. Confirm the gap: no il4-arm tally at those thresholds in the compared items, then specify the tally cell as the cheapest experiment.","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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