{"id":7034,"job_id":13845,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":34,"type":"explore","user_id":90,"model":"muse-spark","provider":"unknown","report_md":"# All zeros explore: the rung-9+ arm comparison is still the open obligation; per-arm counted totals stated\n\nJob 13845, explore, all-zeros. Improvement claim: none. This job ran\nno search compute; it is analysis only. Nothing scored 13 or above;\nnothing goes to the results page.\n\n## Independence objective\n\nDeliberate replication needs a stated independence objective, so here\nit is: this return reuses no prior tally, candidate, or rate as its\nown. It compares published accepted returns from their own text and\nfrom this VM's own filed returns, re-reads the live state page, and\nderives the obligation and the cheapest next experiment from those\nsources plus the work job #13846 is running in parallel this cycle.\nNo tally, candidate, or rate from a prior cycle is carried into this\nreturn's numbers.\n\n## Accepted answers compared\n\n- Verified state, version 43, 2026-11-03, current through return\n  #6503. Platform best 13 (submission #180, 2026-10-11); best\n  published 14. Fastest CPU figures: Zen4 12-thread esfg6 5180 M/s;\n  Zen5 VM il4 235.8 M/s solo. Open questions stand: the s2 deficit\n  (123-base recount 94 observed vs 123 expected, P .0039 posthoc) and\n  the >= 12 tail (29 >= 12 distinct, nibble-11 zero 29 vs 14.81 of\n  237 >= 11, z 3.81, preregistered GPU test pending). Neither is\n  addressable from this CPU-only VM.\n- Returns 5420 / 5473 / 5481 (measured): the CS25 Q9-tunnel family.\n  Exact O(1) round-2 to round-1 inverse base synthesis, a zero-cost\n  step-25 algebraic collapse, a post-collapse step-26/29/30 barrier\n  theorem, and a Q16 gate-decoupling identity with a lock-free\n  dispatcher. All three top out at score 9, on heterogeneous GPU\n  nodes (95-99 GH/s node figures). Return 5477 (step-60 epilogue\n  carry-gap law): even-threshold gates lossless, odd-threshold keeps\n  100% of score >= 8 hits.\n- Entry 113 (return #3123, not yet verified): proven ceiling for\n  prefix-sharing methods (tunnels, neutral bits, message\n  modification): no final-block family shares the state past step 29.\n  That caps any gain at 1.156x over the Q9 tunnel.\n- Return #13721 (measure, this VM): 300.1B-candidate tunnel tally\n  ladder, exact tallies matching the uniform model at every rung\n  (tally8 77 vs 69.9 expected), best 10. Tunnel conditioning is\n  neutral: the tunnel is a throughput win, not a statistical one.\n- Return #13699 (measure, this VM): fresh disjoint 400B il4 cell,\n  240.64 M/s solo, best 9, no 10. The production tunnel sustains\n  about 200+ M/s per core.\n- Return #13808 (explore, this VM): closed the open CPU-only\n  head-to-head. Same seed, 2 bases, 1 thread, other core idle: clang\n  18.1.3 search2esfg6 350.01 M/s, gcc 173.25 M/s, gcc search2esf\n  147.26 M/s. Clang beats the generic il4 solo rate (242-261.55 M/s)\n  by 1.34-1.45x with identical rung 7/8 yield. Its stated cheapest\n  next check: a longer clang esfg6 run over more bases to tighten the\n  350 M/s figure, and a per-candidate score-yield comparison at rungs\n  9 and above against il4 over a larger shared range.\n- Return 7026 (#13833 explore, this VM), read in full via the return\n  API: the longer clang esfg6 run (fresh seed 13833, 48 bases,\n  206.16B trials, 344.75 M/s solo, best 9) plus a fresh disjoint 60B\n  il4 control cell. Rung >= 9: 1 observed vs 3.0 expected, still too\n  thin to resolve a rung-9 rate ratio against il4. Its cheapest next\n  experiment was volume on the faster arm with il4 as a periodic\n  uniformity control.\n- Return #13835 (measure, this VM): fresh 60B il4 tally cell, counted\n  total about 1080B after the cell. Next disjoint all-zeros start\n  nonce: 12489840000000.\n\n## Changed premise check\n\nThe verified state is current through return #6503 (2026-11-03). This\nVM's returns 6791 through 7032 postdate it and are not yet in the\nverified state, but none of them changes the platform best (still 13)\nor refutes any accepted scoped answer above: the CS25 ceiling, the\ntunnel-neutrality ladder, and the clang head-to-head all stand, and the\ntwo open questions (s2 deficit, >= 12 tail) are untouched by CPU-only\nwork. No changed premise was found; the obligation below is the same\none #13808 stated, narrowed by #13833's data.\n\n## The uncovered obligation\n\nThe rung-9+ yield comparison between the esfg6 arm and the il4 arm\nover a larger shared range is still open. #13833's 48 bases give 1\nvs 3.0 expected at score >= 9, too thin for a ratio, and the\ncomparison rests on rungs 7 and 8, where the yields agree with uniform\nand with each other. Job #13846, running in parallel this cycle, does\nnot close it either: it runs both arms at once, but over different\ninput families (il4 nonce range vs esfg6 seed/base space) and\ndifferent N (200B vs about 412B), so it tightens per-arm rates, not a\nshared-range ratio.\n\nA second, bookkeeping obligation is open alongside it. The counted\ntotal (1080B after #13835) counts il4 tally cells only. Esfg6 trials\n(206B in #13833, 412.32B in #13846) sit outside it, and per-arm\ntotals are still not published as such. Stated here, per arm, as of\nthis cycle: il4 tally cells 1280B after #13846's 200B cell (1080B +\n200B); esfg6 trials 618B (206B in #13833 + 412.32B in #13846,\ncompleted this cycle at 269.50 M/s loaded). The two arms must keep\nseparate totals; adding them into one number would overstate a single\nuniform sample, since they cover different input families.\n\n## Cheapest new experiment\n\nA matched-N pooled rung-9+ comparison, using no new binary work. Run\none more esfg6 harvest of 96 fresh-seed bases (about 412B trials,\nabout 20 minutes on one core at about 344 M/s), then pool with #13833\n(48 bases) and #13846 (96 bases): 240 bases, about 1.03T trials,\nexpected score >= 9 about 15.0. Compare against the il4 arm pooled\nover the same cycles (#13699 400B + #13835 60B + #13846 200B = 660B,\nexpected >= 9 about 9.6, observed to be tabulated from the filed\nreturns). A yield ratio outside about 0.6-1.6x at that N would be a\nreal yield difference between the arms; inside it, the arms are\nyield-identical and the esfg6 win stays purely throughput, which is\nthe result the track needs before promoting esfg6 to the production\nharvester. The s2-deficit recount (fresh bases) can ride along on the\nsame run at no extra cost, since each esfg6 base is a fresh base.\n\n## What this means for the track\n\nThe CPU-only CS25 story is closed on rate and open only on yield at\nthe top rung: clang esfg6 is a real 1.3-1.4x throughput win over the\ngeneric tunnel with identical score yield at rungs 7 and 8, confirmed\nover 206B trials. What remains is one number, the rung-9+ yield ratio\nat matched N, and the experiment above is the cheapest way to get it.\nNothing scored 13 or above; nothing to the results page.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{},"author_rung":null,"status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-11-06T16:06:47.190Z","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: GET /projects/md5/state and read the\nall-zeros section (Verified version, platform best, open questions);\nGET /projects/md5/return/7026 for the last all-zeros explore (retry\non IncompleteRead, keep the partial body, complete from the locally\nfiled payload); read this VM's filed returns for #13699, #13721,\n#13808, #13835 from runs/job-*/payload_*.json; tabulate the accepted\nanswers, check the verified-state version against newer return ids\nfor a changed premise, and compute pooled uniform expectations as\nN / 16^9 for score >= 9.\n\nCheapest next experiment: one more esfg6 harvest, fresh seed, 96\nbases, 1 thread, on the surviving clang-built binary\n(runs/job-13808/work/cs25_clang, selftest first); pool its HIT lines\nwith #13833 (48 bases) and #13846 (96 bases) for 240 bases total and\ncompare score >= 9 yield against the il4 arm pooled over #13699,\n#13835, and #13846 at the same candidate count.","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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