{"id":6982,"job_id":13765,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":35,"type":"measure","user_id":90,"model":"muse-spark","provider":"unknown","report_md":"# Smallest collision: gxr pilots on path 12121 replicate on this VM; 126 B still projects below the 128 B record\n\nJob 13765, measure, smallest-collision. Improvement claim: none. No\ncandidate scoring 13 or above was found, so nothing goes to the\nresults page. No pair below 128 bytes was found; the best generator\nrecords reach depth 30, not a collision.\n\n## Hypothesis\n\nThe M1-measured generator advantage of the padded 126 B path 12121\nover the served 128 B path replicates on this Zen VM: same ordering,\nratio within about half a bit. If so, return 4373's projection (126 B\non 12121 below the 128 B record cost) is not M1-specific.\n\n## Experiment\n\ngxr_fast pilots, 3 seeds x 100 s x 1 thread per arm (300 thread-s\nper arm), seeds 13765-13767, one core. Three arms, all built from\nthe headers stored in the job9002 bench file with the same flags as\nthe published runs: R2 path 12121 (126 B, T9 25, PADL 63, FIXQ12),\nP2 path 79 (126 B, T9 24, PADL 63, FIXQ12), and the served 128 B\npath (T9 23, PADL 0, TUN14 0x73, RESCUE_EXTRA). Every record was\nrechecked by independent Python MD5 steps: depth against the path\nheader, padding bytes, and digests.\n\n## Results\n\nPooled Q27 per thread-s (3 seeds):\n\n| arm | bytes | T9 bits | Q27/thread-s | seed rates | Q28 | Q29 | best depth |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| 12121 | 126 | 25 | 237.2 | 208.9, 245.8, 256.6 | 285 | 21 | 30 |\n| p79 | 126 | 24 | 135.8 | 139.6, 128.3, 139.5 | 150 | 5 | 30 |\n| served | 128 | 23 | 92.9 | 95.4, 91.1, 92.3 | 90 | 6 | 30 |\n\nRatios against served on Q27: 12121 is 2.55x, p79 is 1.46x. On\nthe M1 bench the same ratios were 3.20x and 1.80x. Same ordering,\nsmaller margin here: the local Q27 ratio is 0.33 bit below the M1\nratio for 12121 (log2 3.20/2.55). The Q29 tail favors 12121 more:\n0.070 per thread-s against 0.020 served (3.5x), but the counts\nare small (21 vs 6), so that ratio is noisy.\n\nVerification: 531 records checked independently (best record per\nseed plus every d = 28/29 log record), 0 bad: depth, padding, and\ndigests all hold. The three d = 30 log records are exactly the\nthree best records, already covered.\n\n## What it means\n\nThe 4373 projection survives the hardware change. Swapping the\nlocal Q27 ratio into 4373's projection method moves the 126 B\ncost on 12121 from 2^27.07 to about 2^27.4 thread-s per pair,\nstill below the served 128 B cost of 2^27.96. The margin narrows\nby about a third of a bit, and the seed spread on 12121 (sd 20.4,\nabout 9%) means single-seed comparisons need roughly that much\nmargin. The remaining gap is still the generator: even at the\nlocal rate, a 126 B pair is on the order of 2^31 thread-s with\ngxr as it is, and the route 305 generator step is what closes it.\nNo new path was screened here; the next step is wider save-all\nconnects or the route 305 generator on these pilots' rates.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{},"author_rung":null,"status":"pending","final_rung":null,"created_at":"2026-11-05T14:57:38.181Z","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. Extract the headers from the job9002 bench file's headers map\n   (12121, p79, served) into the work dir.\n2. Build each arm from job9002-gxr_fast.c with gcc -O3\n   -march=znver4 -mtune=znver4 -DCONDS='\"<header>\"': 12121 and\n   p79 with -DPADL=63 -DFIXQ12, served with -DPADL=0 -DFIXQ12\n   -DTUN14=0x73 -DRESCUE_EXTRA.\n3. Smoke-run each binary for 2 s and check the JSON line carries\n   the published T9 width (25/24/23).\n4. Run each arm 3 seeds x 100 s x 1 thread (seeds 13765-13767):\n   ./gxr_<arm> <seed> 1 100 28, saving the JSON summary line per\n   run. Pool Q27 over the 300 thread-s per arm.\n5. Verify with verify_best.py (best record per seed plus every\n   d = 28/29 log record, independent integer steps): expect 0 bad.","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":"2026-11-05T14:57:38.181Z","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":"Study how MD5 collisions are built (differential paths, message modification, the single-block attacks of Xie and Feng and Stevens) and what limits their length, and use it to find a shorter full collision. Running fastcoll gives 128 + 128 bytes from known techniques; it is the baseline to measure against. Ideas to test: where the single-block attacks spend their work, whether a shorter second member or a shared prefix can change the bound, what a 64 + 64 search would cost on your machine. Start from the algorithm, not the search. Read the track's state of the art in this brief (the fastest known way per machine, what worked, the dead ends) and research/QUESTIONS.md, then state one hypothesis about MD5's structure that would make this track cheaper than generic search, and why you expect it. Test it with the smallest experiment that could refute it, against a measured baseline on the same machine. Submit the best candidates the experiment produced. The report is a finding: the hypothesis, the experiment, what it showed about MD5 (positive or negative, with numbers), and what the next run should try. Send what you learned as a state_entry with your return (the method, the exact hardware, the measured throughput, the best reached), so the track's state of the art carries it. 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