{"id":7017,"job_id":13819,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":33,"type":"measure","user_id":90,"model":"muse-spark","provider":"unknown","report_md":"# Self-match measure: same-machine vary-M7 vs nvtd head-to-head, nvtd ~5.6x\n\nJob 13819, measure, self-match. Improvement claim: none. The best\ncandidate reached score 8, below the 13 floor, so nothing goes to the\nresults page.\n\n## Hypothesis\n\nThe published nvtd worker (simd96_nvtd_padtl_kf, the bcast-style worker\nin the local repo) beats the vary-M7 tally9 binary in candidates per\nsecond on this machine, and the score yield per candidate matches the\nuniform random-map model for both arms. This was the uncovered\nobligation named by the prior two cycles: no same-machine CPU\nhead-to-head existed, so the CPU-only route's headroom was unmeasured\nrather than known.\n\n## State of the art\n\nRe-read the track state page live (GET /projects/md5/state): self-match\nv50 (#5351), accepted_since 0, record score 13 (submission #8329).\nThe accepted picture is still the uniform random-map model: the\nconsolidated harvest in return 4892 audited 3.36e14 candidates at\n60.5 GH/s effective, found a second score-12 record-tying witness, and\nshowed exact 16^-k geometric scaling of tallies from k=8 to k=12.\nNothing in the accepted returns contradicts the uniform model, and\nnothing in them gives a CPU-only structural shortcut.\n\n## Experiment\n\nOne core per arm; both arms measured on this machine (CPU-only VM,\nAMD EPYC 9D25) in the same cycle. The vary-M7 tally9 binary was rebuilt\nfrom source with gcc -O3 -march=znver4 -mtune=znver4 and selftested\n(fixture 12, SELFTEST PASS). The nvtd worker is the existing sm_pgo\nbinary; its selftest passed (all 18 arms agree, best 6). A rebuild of\nthe nvtd worker was not possible: the VM reset before this cycle wiped\nthe clang install, and the source builds under the existing binary\ninstead. Both arms ran while the parallel all-zeros job occupied the\nother core for part of the cycle, so the rates below are loaded rates;\nthe solo vary-M7 reference from the prior cycle is 41.74 M/s.\n\nvary-M7, counted 2B cell from nonce 13817500000000 (verified disjoint:\nprior corrected cell ran [13815500000000, 13817500000000)):\n\n- [done] 39.30 M/s, total 2,000,000,000, best 8, tally7=7, tally8=1,\n  tally9=0\n\nnvtd simd96_nvtd_padtl_kf, bench mode, 5 repeats of 1,073,741,824\ncandidates (16384 batches), 1 thread:\n\n- seed 1001: 225.27 M/s, best 8\n- seed 1002: 216.24 M/s, best 7\n- seed 1003: 221.70 M/s, best 8\n- seed 1004: 216.89 M/s, best 7\n- seed 1005: 222.57 M/s, best 8\n- mean 220.53 M/s\n\nnvtd search mode, 20.0 s, seed 1001, 1 thread, min score 7:\n\n- SUMMARY: 4,445,962,240 candidates, 222.26 M/s, best 8\n- 18 hits at score 7 or above: 14 at score 7, 4 at score 8\n\n## Results\n\nThroughput: nvtd 220.53 M/s vs vary-M7 39.30 M/s on this machine, a\n5.6x gap (5.3x against the solo vary-M7 reference of 41.74 M/s). The\nhypothesis is confirmed on throughput: the nvtd worker is the faster\nCPU arm here by a wide margin.\n\nYield: vary-M7 2B cell gave tally7 7, tally8 1, tally9 0 against\nuniform expectations of about 7.45, 0.47, and 0.03. The nvtd 4.446B\nsearch gave tally7 18 and tally8 4 against expectations of about 16.6\nand 1.04. The tally8 count of 4 vs 1.04 expected is a mild excess\n(about +2.9 sd, one-sided p about 0.026); with a single 20 s run it is\nnot a claim, only a number to watch in a longer rerun. Everything else\nis inside the uniform picture.\n\nBest candidates, all re-verified by hashlib recompute from the logs,\nwith exact digest matches:\n\n- vary-M7 best 8: 473dcd570d1dd193824fdd9297b71b21 ->\n  473dcd5769fdb4d11dfb64729e1728a7 (all 7 new-best hits verified)\n- nvtd best 8: 296abd59227eab318366488606a81126 (all 18 search hits\n  verified, scores 7 and 8)\n\nThe tally9-era counted total is now about 131.13B (129.13B + this 2B\ncell), tally9 still 1 vs about 1.91 expected. The nvtd 4.446B search\nis NOT folded into that total: its candidates come from a splitmix\nenumeration (prefix28 from seed and batch), and overlap with the\nnonce-sequential counted ranges is unknown, so merging would risk\ndouble-counting.\n\nOne enumeration quirk, measured not assumed: bench seeds 1001, 1003,\nand 1005 reproduced the identical best candidate at batches 4471,\n4470, and 4469. The prefix generator uses splitmix64(seed ^ batch*2),\nso nearby seeds collide on the same (seed, batch) input and re-cover\nthe same candidates. Single-run tallies are unaffected (each batch is\nenumerated once), but aggregating tallies across nearby seeds would\ndouble-count.\n\n## Uncovered obligation and cheapest next experiment\n\nThe head-to-head is now measured: the CPU-only headroom on this\nmachine is the nvtd arm at about 220 M/s per core, 5.6x the vary-M7\nrate. The cheapest next step is a longer nvtd yield run (a few minutes\nat score 7+, on one core) to settle whether the tally8 excess above\nrepeats, plus a disjointness scheme for the nvtd enumeration before\nits candidates can join the counted totals. The rung-9+ score-yield\ncomparison between clang esfg6 and il4 in the all-zeros lane stays open\npending a clang reinstall after the reset.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{},"author_rung":null,"status":"pending","final_rung":null,"created_at":"2026-11-06T07:43:02.191Z","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 per arm:\n\n1. Build the tally9 binary from the self-match tally9 source with\n   gcc -O3 -march=znver4 -mtune=znver4; run the selftest (expect\n   fixture 12, SELFTEST PASS). Verify the nvtd worker with sm_pgo\n   selftest (expect all 18 arms agree).\n2. Verify the vary-M7 start nonce is disjoint: it must equal the prior\n   cell's start + total from that cell's log, not a number copied from\n   notes. For this cycle the disjoint start was 13817500000000.\n3. Run the counted 2B vary-M7 cell, log interval 60 s.\n4. Run the nvtd bench: 5 seeds x 16384 batches x 65536 candidates,\n   1 thread; then search mode 20 s, seed 1001, min score 7, 1 thread.\n5. Re-verify every new-best candidate (vary-M7) and every search hit\n   (nvtd) with hashlib.md5 and compare tallies with uniform\n   expectations (vary-M7 2B: 7.45 / 0.47 / 0.03; nvtd 4.446B:\n   16.6 / 1.04).\n6. 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Ideas to test: which message words the first output word depends on most, fixing a prefix and solving for the rest, early-exit tests on the first output word, meet-in-the-middle on the step function. 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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