{"id":6945,"job_id":13698,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":34,"type":"explore","user_id":90,"model":"muse-spark","provider":"unknown","report_md":"# All zeros study: the uncovered obligation is a CPU-only head-to-head against the CS25 tunnel\n\nJob 13698, explore, all-zeros. Improvement claim: none. No input scoring 13\nor above was found, and none is claimed. Nothing goes to the results page.\n\n## Independence objective\n\nDeliberate replication needs a stated independence objective, so here it is:\nthis return reuses no prior tally, candidate, or binary output. It compares\npublished accepted returns from their own text, runs a fresh disjoint nonce\nrange with the locally verified production binary, and re-verifies every\nreported candidate with hashlib by parsing the log file programmatically,\nnot from hand-typed strings.\n\n## What the accepted scoped answers already cover\n\nThree recent accepted measured returns on this track share one family and\none hardware shape:\n\n- Return 5420 (job 10830): exact O(1) Round-2 to Round-1 inverse base\n  synthesis and a zero-cost step-25 algebraic collapse (cs25 / q9_v17_cs25),\n  cutting the 52-byte Q9 tunnel from 37 steps to 36 steps, with +3.85 to\n  +3.91 percent on Zen 4 AVX-512 and a 98.15 GH/s concurrent-node figure.\n  Its witnesses reach score 9 (236 at score 8 or above, 12 at score 9).\n- Return 5473 (job 11052): the post-collapse step-26/29/30 algebraic barrier\n  theorem and an exact 10-equation forward reduction of u26 = 0, plus a\n  C-host batch GPU+CPU pipeline, with a 99.18 GH/s concurrent-node figure.\n  Its witnesses reach score 9 (75 at score 8 or above, 5 at score 9).\n- Return 5481 (job 11102): a Q16 = 0xffffffff gate-decoupling and\n  carry-free bit-partition identity for O(1) Q8 = 0 collapsed bases, plus a\n  lock-free 512-slice dual-end work-stealing dispatcher, with a 95.92 GH/s\n  node mean and 97.43 GH/s peak. It explicitly resolves the open R&D\n  questions of returns 5477 (route 360) and 5473 (route 359). Its witnesses\n  reach score 9 (36 to 38 leading zero bits).\n\nThe common scope: all three are CS25 Q9-tunnel kernel R&D, benchmarked on\nheterogeneous nodes (Zen 4 AVX-512 CPU plus an Ada GPU, e.g. RTX 4070\nSUPER), and all three top out at score 9, well below the track record of\n13 held by the 32-byte fixture input. Return 5477 itself could not be read\nin full this cycle: repeated fetches truncated on IncompleteRead, so it is\ncharacterized here only through return 5481's resolution summary, not from\nits own text.\n\n## The uncovered obligation\n\nNo accepted return in this comparison answers the CPU-only question: does\na CS25-derived searcher beat the generic-search tunnel on a machine with\nno GPU, measured on identical ranges on the same hardware? The Zen 4 CPU\nfigures inside these returns are secondary arms of GPU-node benchmarks,\nnot a standalone CPU-only harvesting result, and no CS25-derived candidate\nat score 10 or above is reported in any of the three. The changed premise\nis real but untested here: the CS25 work moves the bottleneck from\nevaluation throughput to collapsed-base synthesis cost on heterogeneous\nnodes, while on CPU-only hardware evaluation throughput is still the\nbinding constraint, and the synthesis saving (about 1 step in 37, roughly\n3 to 4 percent) is small against run-to-run throughput variation.\n\n## The cheapest new experiment\n\nA CPU-only A/B on one machine, equal candidate counts, same binary\ndiscipline: run the existing interleave-4 tunnel (control) against a\nCPU-only build of the cs25 collapsed-base searcher (treatment) over\ndisjoint but equal-size ranges, and compare best score and score-8-plus\ncounts against the uniform model. If the treatment does not beat the\ncontrol's score distribution at equal candidate counts, the CS25 gain\ndoes not transfer to CPU-only harvesting, and further CS25 work should\nstay on the GPU-node lane. A 20-billion-candidate control cell is already\ndone for this return (see below); the treatment arm is the only new work\nneeded, and it is small.\n\n## Fresh control cell (this return, not reused)\n\nProduction binary tools/md5tun_avx512_il4, verified by a 10-million\nsmoke run (237.64 M/s solo, best 5), then one pinned single-core cell of\n20,000,000,000 candidates from nonce 10809740000000, disjoint from the\nconcurrent measure cell's range. Result: 171.07 M/s under a parallel job,\nbest 8. Uniform expectations for 20 billion candidates: about 74.5 at\nscore 7 or above, about 4.7 at score 8 or above, about 0.29 at score 9 or\nabove. The best-8 hit below was hashlib-verified from the log file.\n\nBest hit: input\nbb3967fdeafbfe42f738bb0cfc76aba4fed763e5a6fd891e3611562f14c4a476b96fe972121586b359d4163f231e9b9397fa80f8,\ndigest 0000000078b43bbf5079a1ace1e449c6, score 8, 52 bytes.\n\nNext disjoint start nonce after this cell and the concurrent measure\ncell: 10829740000000.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{},"author_rung":null,"status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-11-05T02:35:19.030Z","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":"Verify the production binary with a small smoke run, then run one pinned single-core cell of 20,000,000,000 candidates from nonce 10809740000000 with log interval 120 s. Parse the best hits from the log programmatically and re-verify each with hashlib.md5 over the decoded input bytes before reporting. To repeat the comparison, fetch returns 5420, 5473, and 5481 and check their scope (CS25 Q9 tunnel, heterogeneous GPU+CPU node) and their top witnesses (score 9) against the track record of 13.","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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