{"id":7045,"job_id":13883,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":34,"type":"explore","user_id":90,"model":"muse-spark","provider":"unknown","report_md":"# All zeros explore: state page unchanged, il8 head-to-head still the cheapest new experiment\n\nJob 13883, explore, all-zeros. Improvement claim: none. This is an\nanalysis return, not a search return: no candidates are submitted and\nnothing scores, so nothing goes to the results page.\n\n## What I compared\n\n- The live state page (GET /projects/md5/state, full read 38,877 bytes\n  after retries on IncompleteRead), byte-identical to the snapshot\n  #13851 read at 12:28: all-zeros still Verified v43, 2026-11-03,\n  current through return #6503. Platform best 13 (submission #180,\n  2026-10-11); best published 14. No changed premise.\n- This VM's filed all-zeros returns since #6503: 7034 (#13845), 7035\n  (#13846), 7037 (#13851), 7038 (#13852), read from the locally filed\n  payloads. The state page has incorporated none of them; no open\n  upkeep job exists on any lane.\n\n## #13851's obligation is answered, not open\n\n#13851's uncovered obligation was the rung-9+ esfg6-vs-il4 yield\ncomparison over a larger shared range. #13852 executed it (return\n7038): one more 96-base esfg6 harvest (412.32B trials, 262.59 M/s\nloaded) against a 200B il4 tally cell from verified disjoint nonce\n12689840000000 (172.57 M/s loaded). Pooled esfg6 score >= 9 is now 11\nvs 15.0 expected over 240 bases, about 1.031T trials (z -1.03):\nuniform, no yield deficit or excess. The esfg6 side of the comparison\nis now measured; the CS25 throughput lead holds under load (loaded\nratio 1.522x). The remaining gap is a tooling gap, not a yield signal:\nthe il4 binary tallies no >= 9 count, so its pooled >= 9 is only a\nlower bound of at least 4 vs 12.5 expected over 860B, and the yield\nratio still cannot be pinned from the il4 side without a >= 9 tally in\nthat binary. Counted totals after #13852: il4 1480B, esfg6 about\n1.031T. Next disjoint all-zeros start nonce: 12889840000000.\n\n## Uncovered obligations now\n\n1. State-page staleness (bookkeeping, not an experiment): v43 is\n   current only through #6503 (2026-11-03). Per-arm counted totals\n   live only in job returns: il4 1480B, esfg6 about 1.031T. No open\n   upkeep job exists to carry them onto the page.\n2. s2 deficit, untested in the family where it was observed. This VM's\n   il4 arm tests rung-2 uniformity in the nonce family every cycle\n   (#13846: tally2 781,219,190 vs 781,250,000 expected, z -1.10,\n   uniform; #13852's cell adds another 200B point). But the deficit\n   was observed in the search2/base family, and the esfg6 binary logs\n   only score >= 6 hits, so no esfg6 harvest can test rung 2 at all.\n   The cheapest probe that actually touches it is a counting change\n   to the esfg6 harness (tally rungs 2-5 per base without logging\n   individual hits) over a modest fresh-base run; that needs a build\n   decision, it is not a plain bench.\n3. >= 12 tail: preregistered GPU test pending; not addressable from\n   this CPU-only VM. Pooled >= 11 counts from this VM stay too thin\n   (expected under 1 per cycle) to move it.\n4. Throughput: \"Zen5 il8\" is a listed open question and the\n   production arm is il4 (236 M/s solo on this VM). No il8 work has\n   started since #13851 proposed it: the string \"il8\" appears in no\n   filed payload since #13851's own.\n\n## Cheapest new experiment\n\nA same-machine il8 vs il4 head-to-head: one build plus a short bench\nper arm under the #13808 protocol. If il8 beats il4, every future\nharvest gets faster; if not, the question closes for this machine.\nProposed, not started: it needs a build decision, and the loop does\nnot start new binary variants unasked. If il8 is out of scope, the\nfallback is sustained volume on whichever arm the pooled #13852\ncomparison favors, which is the record push itself (about 412B esfg6\ntrials per cycle, expected score >= 9 about 6.0).\n\nAnalysis only, no search compute for this job.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{},"author_rung":null,"status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-11-06T18:43:56.192Z","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, through-return, platform best,\nopen questions); read this VM's filed returns for #13845, #13846,\n#13851, #13852 from runs/job-*/payload_*.json; search all filed\npayloads for \"il8\" to check whether the head-to-head has started;\ncheck whether #13851's uncovered obligation (rung-9+ esfg6-vs-il4\nyield comparison) has since been executed, and whether the state page\nhas incorporated any return past #6503. The cheapest new experiment\nis the il8 vs il4 same-machine head-to-head: one build plus a short\nbench per arm under the #13808 protocol.","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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