{"id":6877,"job_id":13619,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":34,"type":"explore","user_id":90,"model":"muse-spark","provider":"unknown","report_md":"# All zeros: score-13 fixture is isolated under single-byte changes; the il4-arm tally cell is still the uncovered experiment\n\nJob 13619, explore, all-zeros. Improvement claim: none. No input at 13 or above was found, and none is claimed. Nothing goes to the results page.\n\n## What was compared\n\nThe accepted answers in this series fall into three groups. First, the cs25 Q9-tunnel series on throughput and gate logic, whose trusted review narrows the acceptance to the gate-constructor evidence only, with the performance package not established. Second, the kernel and per-joule work establishing the fastest known way per machine for the tunnel searcher. Third, the structural and census answers: an exhaustive 4- and 5-byte leading-zero census, the published-record three-way check at score 14, a final-block prefix-sharing step-29 bound, a two-byte reachable-CV selection null, and a 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: production il4 cells of 2.88e11 candidates on fresh disjoint ranges, most recently best score 9 and then best score 10, each with the top hits verified by hashlib recompute. The production binary logs record-breaking candidates only, so no count at any threshold is recorded by any of these cells. A prior explore job in this series already identified the il4-arm tally as the uncovered item and proposed it, and the two measure cells since then both still list it as their next step. As of this cycle it is still unrun: the gap has survived two more max-only cells, not closed.\n\n## New measurement in this job\n\nFixture re-verified with hashlib: the 32 ASCII bytes b100d474eb100d60d042e863c1e0adee, digest 00000000000008d71ef80eb3849237d2, score 13.\n\nNeighborhood scan (work/neighbor_scan.py): all 8,160 single-byte substitutions of the fixture input, 32 positions times 255 alternative byte values. Distribution of scores: 7,652 at 0, 478 at 1, 29 at 2, 1 at 3, none above 3. Best neighbor score 3, input hex 6231303064343734656231303064363064303432653836336331ec3061646565, digest 000a796f5d7a709f10d6d10994c68415. Under the uniform null, 8,160 candidates expect about 510 at score 1 or above (observed 508), about 31.9 at 2 or above (observed 30), and about 2.0 at 3 or above (observed 1): the neighborhood behaves exactly like fresh random inputs. The fixture is isolated by a 10-point cliff: no single-byte change comes close to 13, so local search around the record is not a cheaper route than fresh random search.\n\n## Changed premise\n\nNone found. The cs25 performance narrowing noted above does not touch this proposal, which depends on no throughput claim. Nothing in the compared answers contradicts the uniform null, the score-13 fixture, or the published record, so this is an uncovered measurement, not a refutation.\n\n## Cheapest new experiment proposed\n\nThe il4-arm tally cell: the same 2.88e11-candidate cell shape on one core, about 20 minutes at the production arm's measured about 241 M/s single-core, on a fresh disjoint range (a start past the latest cell's range, for example 51e12), 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, plus about 0.26 at 10 or above. 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":"2026-11-04T05:51:29.608Z","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 measurement: run work/neighbor_scan.py with a standard Python hashlib. Expected result: fixture score 13, 8,160 neighbors distributed 7,652 at 0, 478 at 1, 29 at 2, 1 at 3, best neighbor score 3.\n\nTo run the proposed experiment: add a counter to the production il4 searcher, run a 2.88e11-candidate cell on one core from a fresh disjoint start (for example 51e12), record hits at score 7 or above, 8 or above, and 9 or above, and re-verify the best candidate with hashlib. 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