{"id":6987,"job_id":13773,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":34,"type":"explore","user_id":90,"model":"muse-spark","provider":"unknown","report_md":"# All zeros: accepted answers compared; gcc s2esfg6 172 M/s still trails il4, and a 60B replication cell is uniform bar one 2.5 sd rung\n\nJob 13773, explore, all-zeros. Improvement claim: none. No input\nscoring 13 or above was found, so nothing goes to the results page.\nBest input scores 8.\n\n## Comparison of the accepted scoped answers\n\nRe-read this cycle: the track state page v43 (2026-11-03, current\nthrough return #6503), plus the #13768 comparison of returns\n5481/5473/5420/5477. No new accepted all-zeros return has landed\nsince #13768's comparison; the state page is unchanged since then.\n\n- Return 5481 (accepted, measured): Q8 = 0 collapsed-base synthesis,\n  512-slice dual-end dispatcher. Node mean 95.92 GH/s (GPU node).\n  Published CPU aggregate 5.3 GH/s over 8 threads (~664 M/s/thread).\n  Top witnesses score 9.\n- Return 5473 (accepted, measured): Step-26/29/30 algebraic barrier,\n  10-equation forward reduction, C-host batch pipeline. Node 99.18\n  GH/s. 75 witnesses at score >= 8, 5 at score 9.\n- Return 5420 (accepted, verified): Round-2 to Round-1 inverse\n  constructor, Q22/Q23/Q24 = 0, Step 25 collapses identically.\n- Return 5477 (accepted, measured): Step-60 epilogue carry-gap law,\n  q9_v19 kernels, double-buffered 2-queue pinned OpenCL pipeline.\n\nNew fact since #13768, from the state page v43 (not in the four returns\nabove): return #3914 measured clang 21 AVX-512 s2esfg6 at 635.6 M/s on\none Zen 4 core (7800X3D), and 5.18 GH/s over 12 threads. That is within\n5% of the 5.3 GH/s aggregate's per-thread share, so the aggregate is\nconsistent with a clang-built vectorized s2esfg6 arm on a Zen 4 desktop\nCPU, not with the scalar gcc host (147 M/s here). The state page also\nrecords gcc builds of the same arm at 362.1 M/s or less. The return\ndoes not name the CPU behind the 5.3 GH/s figure, and nobody has run\nthe clang arm and the gcc il4 arm on one machine, so the explanation is\nconsistent but not yet verified head-to-head.\n\nCommon shape, unchanged: every throughput claim is a GPU-node or a\nmulti-thread aggregate; every top witness is score 9, the same as\ngeneric search reaches. None of the four states a CPU-only head-to-head\nagainst generic search, and none compares per-candidate score yield on\nCPU. The state page's open questions list the s2 deficit (123-base\nrecount 94 observed vs 123 expected, cause open, P .0039 posthoc) and\nthe >= 12 tail (29 >= 12 distinct, nibble-11 zero 29 vs 14.81 of 237\n>= 11, z 3.81; preregistered GPU test pending).\n\n## Cheapest decisive check (run this cycle)\n\nBuilt the shipped 5481 C host (already in the workspace, unmodified;\nbuild flags only) and benched its search2esfg6 arm with gcc on this\nVM, 1 thread, fresh seed 13773, 2 bases, against the search2esf arm\nwith the same seed and bases, and against the same-cycle il4 baseline\n(job 13772, 242 M/s solo). Clang is not installed on this VM and the\napt lock is held by the post-reset replay, so the clang half stays\nopen.\n\nResults: search2esfg6 171.85 M/s (8.59B candidates, 50.0 s);\nsearch2esf 133.28 M/s (same seed and bases, 64.5 s); esfg6/esf =\n1.289x. Both trail il4 (242 M/s solo). Score yield agrees exactly\nbetween the two arms: hist[6] 488, hist[7] 31, hist[8] 1 in both;\nscore >= 7 observed 32 vs 32.0 expected, >= 8 observed 1 vs 2.0. The\nesfg6 run's low-rung cumulative counts (520 for k = 1..6) are a gate\nartifact: that arm only tallies batches passing the g6 mask, so the\nlow rungs are unmeasured by it, not different.\n\n## Deliberate replication\n\nFresh disjoint 60B il4 tally cell from nonce 12149840000000 (next\ndisjoint range after job 13772's cell), 185.21 M/s under parallel\nload, best 8:\ninput d39bc3526d395bf57b9401df6ac57e1a4c0b78573db6e06f629999377a9f1a1198fe307a96ae759b1620b90969af4d1af9a64177,\ndigest 00000000c0b692cf24b425f891f49d48, 52 bytes. All 8 new-best hits\nhashlib-verified, 0 mismatches.\n\nTallies (observed / expected / z): tally2 234,413,014 / 234,375,000 /\n+2.48; tally4 916,079 / 915,527 / +0.58; tally6 3,585 / 3,576 / +0.15;\ntally7 211 / 223.5 / -0.84; tally8 12 / 14.0 / -0.53. The tally2\nreading is flagged, not claimed: tally2 and tally4 are nearly\nindependent statistics (correlation about 0.06), and across 5 rungs\nover about 13 cells a 2.5 sd reading somewhere is expected by chance.\nThe counted total now stands at about 800B: tally7 3015 vs 2980.2\n(+0.64 sd), tally8 197 vs 186.3 (+0.79 sd).\n\n## Verdict\n\nThe uncovered obligation is now narrower: the 5.3 GH/s aggregate is\nexplained on paper by clang + Zen 4 + vectorized s2esfg6, but the\nsame-machine head-to-head is still missing, and the gcc-built s2esfg6\narm on this VM (172 M/s) does not reproduce the clang figure. The\nCS25 route still offers nothing to a CPU-only runner on this VM\nbeyond what generic search does. The cheapest next check is the clang\nbuild of the same arm on this machine, once clang is installed; the\ns2 deficit and the >= 12 tail stay open on the state page.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{},"author_rung":null,"status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-11-05T16:51:17.012Z","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:\n\n1. Read the track state page and the accepted returns 5481/5473/5420/\n   5477; note any new accepted return since the last comparison.\n2. Build the shipped 5481 C host unmodified with gcc -O3\n   -march=znver4 -mtune=znver4 -DX_CS25=1 -DX_Q8Z=1; run its selftest.\n3. Bench search2esfg6 and search2esf with the same fresh seed, 2\n   bases, 1 thread each (this cycle: seed 13773); record rates and\n   score histograms.\n4. Rebuild md5tun_tally from source with the same flags; run the\n   selftest.\n5. Run a 60-billion-candidate tally cell from the next disjoint nonce\n   (this cycle: 12149840000000), log interval 60 s.\n6. Verify every [new best] line in the cell log with hashlib.md5\n   (digest and true leading-zero score must match the printed values).\n7. Compute per-rung z-scores against N/2^(4k) expectations and add\n   the tallies to the running counted totals.","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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