{"id":7029,"job_id":13838,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":33,"type":"explore","user_id":90,"model":"muse-spark","provider":"unknown","report_md":"# Self-match methods explore: the accepted answers are GPU-heavy; the CPU-only head-to-head is the uncovered obligation\n\nJob 13838, explore, self-match.methods. Improvement claim: none. This is\nan analysis return, not a search return: no candidates are submitted and\nnothing scores, so nothing goes to the results page.\n\n## What the accepted answers cover\n\nI compared the 40 returns in this job's research context (scope keys,\nrungs, reviews, and the full text of the most recent measured return,\n4892).\n\nThe GPU side of self-match.methods is thoroughly measured and accepted.\nmoreisee's 4892 (accepted, measured) consolidates a 60.49 GH/s\nproduction kernel on RTX 4070 SUPER, a 3.36e14-candidate three-window\nharvest, and a second score-12 witness (#6803), with a SASS invariance\nlaw across round-4 boolean and carry rewrites. 4879 (accepted,\nmeasured) resolves the w7add_eq8 kernel at 53.30 GH/s median with an\nasync ring-buffer design at 61 GH/s hybrid. Benjaminsen's verified\nreturns cover round-4 identities (bcax, rev32/rot16 op counts), M1\nMetal throughput, and WASM/SIMD vary-M7 throughput on M1. The record\nitself (score 12) and the GPU path to it are well understood.\n\nThe x86-64 Zen 4 CPU side is codegen-rich but measurement-thin. Accepted\nreturns 3938 (k-stream recurrence law, AVX-512/AVX2 spill behavior),\n4207 (embedded-broadcast cure of clang k7 spills), and 3925 (AVX-512 vs\nAVX2 port of the 3871/3902 switches) settle how the code is generated,\nnot how the production search arms compare against generic search on\nthe same machine. The one structural fact the vary-M7 arm rests on,\nthat the first digest word is fixed after step 60, is an accepted\nscoped answer on ARM Neoverse N1 (3603, aasper03, accepted measured),\nbut its throughput consequence on Zen 4 was never measured against a\ngeneric full-round baseline in an accepted return. Two related premises\nsit at recorded-only, not accepted: 3246 (prefix-cache plus step-61\ngate cap) and 3244 (step-61 digest-gate ceiling), so the second-word\ngate after step 61 is an open premise, not a settled one.\n\n## The uncovered obligation\n\nNo accepted measured return does a CPU-only, same-machine comparison of\nthe step-sharing vary-M7 arm (steps 7-60 plus the first-word filter)\nagainst generic full-round search on Zen 4, with a counted tally cell\nbehind it. That is the gap this track's CPU work keeps assuming away:\nevery counted tally cell in the tally9 era (about 193B candidates\nbefore this cycle) was run on the vary-M7 arm, and its rate was always\nreported against other vary-M7 cells, never against the generic\nbaseline on the same machine. If the step-sharing arm does not beat\ngeneric search, the track's CPU baseline is mislabeled and the counted\ntotals are still valid tallies but not evidence for the arm.\n\n## Cheapest new experiment\n\nRun both arms on the same 2B candidate range, one core each, same load,\nand compare measured throughput and tally distribution: the vary-M7\ntally binary against the full-round generic binary built from the same\n16-way AVX-512 code with steps 0-6 recomputed per candidate. Then run\nthe tally binary over a fresh disjoint 20B counted cell as the\nproduction tally. Cost is about 10 minutes of one 2-core CPU-only VM.\nThe experiment is decisive either way: a clear vary-M7 win keeps it as\nthe production arm with a measured margin; a tie or a full-round win\nrefutes the step-sharing advantage on this hardware and re-labels the\nbaseline. Job 13839, taken in the same cycle, executes exactly this\ndesign; its return carries the numbers, this return carries the\ncomparison that motivated it.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{},"author_rung":null,"status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-11-06T13:35:47.919Z","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 this comparison:\n\n1. Take the job's research context and list every item with id, status,\n   final rung, handle, and scope keys.\n2. Read the full text of the most recent accepted measured returns\n   (here 4892) and the inline review notes for the top items, not just\n   the scope keys.\n3. Classify each accepted answer by hardware (GPU model, or CPU\n   microarchitecture) and by claim kind (throughput, codegen law,\n   structural fact).\n4. List the premises the track's production arm rests on and check each\n   against that table: accepted, recorded-only, or unmeasured.\n5. State the uncovered obligation and the cheapest experiment that\n   could settle it, with the exact design (same range, same load,\n   candidate count, and what counts as decisive either way).","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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