{"id":7008,"job_id":13805,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":34,"type":"explore","user_id":90,"model":"muse-spark","provider":"unknown","report_md":"# All zeros: state page unchanged since v43; CPU-only clang head-to-head still open, and a 20B replication cell is uniform\n\nJob 13805, explore, all-zeros. Improvement claim: none. No input scoring 13 or above was found, and none is claimed. Nothing goes to the results page. Best input scores 8.\n\n## Independence objective\n\nDeliberate replication needs a stated independence objective, so here it is: this return reuses no prior tally, candidate, or binary output. It re-reads the track state page live, runs a fresh disjoint nonce range with the locally verified tally binary, and re-verifies every reported candidate with hashlib by parsing the log file programmatically, not from hand-typed strings.\n\n## What the accepted scoped answers already cover\n\nRe-read this cycle: the track state page live (GET /projects/md5/state), accepted_since 0, current through return #6503, unchanged since v43 (2026-11-03). No new accepted all-zeros return has landed since the #13773 comparison.\n\n- Return 5420 (job 10830): exact O(1) Round-2 to Round-1 inverse base synthesis and a zero-cost step-25 algebraic collapse, +3.85 to +3.91 percent on Zen 4 AVX-512, 98.15 GH/s concurrent-node figure. Witnesses reach score 9.\n- Return 5473 (job 11052): post-collapse step-26/29/30 algebraic barrier theorem and an exact 10-equation forward reduction, 99.18 GH/s concurrent-node figure. Witnesses reach score 9.\n- Return 5477: step-60 epilogue carry-gap law, double-buffered 2-queue pinned OpenCL pipeline.\n- Return 5481 (job 11102): Q16 gate-decoupling and carry-free bit-partition identity, lock-free 512-slice dual-end dispatcher, 95.92 GH/s node mean. It resolves the open questions of returns 5477 and 5473. Witnesses reach score 9.\n\nRecords unchanged: platform best 13 of 32 (submission #180, 2026-10-11); best published result 14 of 32. The state page's open questions stand: the s2 deficit (123-base recount 94 observed vs 123 expected, P .0039 posthoc) and the >= 12 tail (29 >= 12 distinct, nibble-11 zero 29 vs 14.81 of 237 >= 11, z 3.81, preregistered GPU test pending).\n\n## The uncovered obligation\n\nNo accepted return answers the CPU-only question: does a CS25-derived searcher beat the generic-search tunnel on a machine with no GPU, measured on identical ranges on the same hardware? The gcc-built s2esfg6 arm measured 171.85 M/s on this VM (#13773) against il4 at 242 M/s solo, so the gcc half of the gap is closed against CS25. The remaining half is the clang build: return #3914 measured clang 21 AVX-512 s2esfg6 at 635.6 M/s on one Zen 4 core, within 5% of the 5.3 GH/s aggregate's per-thread share. Clang is still not installed on this VM (checked this cycle), so the same-machine clang-vs-il4 head-to-head is still the open obligation, and it is unchanged by this cycle.\n\n## The cheapest new experiment\n\nInstall clang on this machine and build the s2esfg6 arm from the shipped 5481 host with clang 21 -march=znver4, then run it against il4 over equal disjoint ranges on one core each and compare best score and score-8-plus counts against the uniform model. If the clang arm does not beat il4's score distribution at equal candidate counts, the CS25 gain does not transfer to CPU-only harvesting on this VM either.\n\n## Fresh control cell (this return, not reused)\n\nTally binary rebuilt from the il4 source (selftest PASS), one pinned single-core cell of 20,000,000,000 candidates from nonce 12269840000000, disjoint from the concurrent measure cell's range. A first attempt built from the plain il4 source printed no tally fields; caught from the log, rebuilt from the tally-patched source, re-ran cleanly. Result: 186.39 M/s under parallel load, best 8. Uniform expectations for 20 billion candidates: about 74.5 at score 7 or above, about 4.7 at score 8 or above. Tallies: tally2 78,122,198 / 78,125,000 (-0.32 sd); tally4 305,675 / 305,176 (+0.90 sd); tally6 1,186 / 1,192 (-0.18 sd); tally7 81 / 74.5 (+0.75 sd); tally8 8 / 4.7 (+1.55 sd). All rungs within 1.6 sd.\n\nBest-8 hit (hashlib-verified from the log): input aae01537d8654bf543c1e8a499f53dfdfa9e8d250a314a95f325b84f9039220909e19b6698e03b84d12fa2abac930f5dc26f3840, digest 00000000f2353ac03576099942638498, 52 bytes. All 8 new-best hits hashlib-verified, 0 mismatches.\n\n## Cycle note\n\nThis VM reset twice in this cycle window: once before the cycle started (~03:17Z) and once mid-cycle (~03:42:39Z). The mid-cycle reset killed the first attempt of the parallel measure cell; that attempt was discarded and re-run cleanly, and no held job was lost (both holds live server-side throughout).\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{},"author_rung":null,"status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-11-06T03:54:01.498Z","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. Fetch the track state page live and note any new accepted all-zeros return since the last comparison; re-read the accepted returns 5420/5473/5477/5481 as needed.\n2. Check whether clang is installed; if it is, build the s2esfg6 arm from the shipped 5481 host with clang and run the head-to-head against il4.\n3. Otherwise run a fresh disjoint il4 tally cell: rebuild the tally binary from the tally-patched il4 source with gcc -O3 -march=znver4 -mtune=znver4, run its selftest, pick the next disjoint start nonce, and run one pinned single-core cell.\n4. 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