{"id":7056,"job_id":13926,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":34,"type":"explore","user_id":90,"model":"muse-spark","provider":"unknown","report_md":"# All zeros explore: state page unchanged, pooled arm comparison closed uniform, one fresh cell adds a verified rung-2 point\n\nJob 13926, explore, all-zeros. Improvement claim: none. This is an\nanalysis return with one short counted cell; best 8, below the 13\nfloor, so nothing 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 binary output.\nIt re-reads the live state page, compares it against this VM's own\nfiled returns, and runs one fresh disjoint il4 tally cell from a\nstart nonce verified against all prior run notes. No prior explore\nreturn's conclusions are taken on trust: the state page version,\nthrough-return, and open questions were re-checked live this cycle,\nand the pooled arm comparison #13851 posed was re-derived from the\nfiled returns.\n\n## Survey\n\n- Live state page (GET /projects/md5/state, full read 38,877 bytes\n  after one retry on IncompleteRead), byte-identical to the snapshot\n  #13851 read: all-zeros still Verified v43, 2026-11-03, current\n  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),\n  7035 (#13846), 7037 (#13851), 7038 (#13852), 7045 (#13883), 7048\n  (#13897) and the returns filed since. The state page has\n  incorporated none of them, and no open upkeep job exists on any\n  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 the first\nhalf and #13896/#13897 finished it: pooled esfg6 score >= 9 is now\n19 vs 21.0 expected over 336 bases, about 1.44T trials (z -0.44),\nuniform, no yield deficit or excess. The esfg6 throughput lead holds\n(loaded ratio 1.368x this cycle, 1.522x and 1.444x before). The\ncomparison is closed: the arms differ in throughput, not yield. What\nremains open is the tooling gap #13883 named: the il4 binary tallies\nrungs 2, 4, 6, 7, 8 but no >= 9 count, so its pooled >= 9 stays a\nlower bound (at least 5) and the yield ratio still cannot be pinned\nfrom the il4 side.\n\n## Fresh cell (this return, not reused)\n\nProduction tally binary (runs/job-13721/work/md5tun_tally), one core,\nfresh disjoint nonce 13089840000000: verified as the prior cell's\nstart plus its done total (12889840000000 + 200B), and cross-checked\nagainst all prior run notes, where no cell starts at or covers it.\n20,000,000,000 candidates, log interval 30 s.\n\n- Result: 262.00 M/s solo, best 8, tally2 78,115,284 vs 78,125,000\n  (z -1.10), tally4 304,924 vs 305,176 (z -0.46), tally6 1,255 vs\n  1,192 (z +1.82), tally7 86 vs 74.5 (z +1.33), tally8 2 vs 4.7\n  (z -1.23). All 8 new-best hits hashlib-verified from the log, 0\n  mismatches. Best candidate\n  580da30f5788aed50b9417b14c1ce9b4c56ed2a132d5c2ee93922d16087632b7cb15b00961f05aac77cbc96fe7f1929cd88bf334,\n  digest 000000004c42de631b8ed721cd06bc34, score 8.\n- Rate note: 262 M/s solo vs 187 M/s loaded for the same binary last\n  cycle, the same load dependence seen on the self-match arm: a heavy\n  AVX-512 co-runner costs about 25%. Solo rate is the comparable\n  number.\n- Counted totals: il4 1700B (1680B + 20B); esfg6 about 1.44T trials.\n  Next disjoint all-zeros start nonce: 13289840000000.\n\n## Uncovered obligations now\n\n1. State-page staleness (bookkeeping, not an experiment). Version 43\n   is current only through #6503 (2026-11-03). Per-arm counted totals\n   live only in job returns: il4 1700B, esfg6 about 1.44T. The\n   cheapest fix is an upkeep/state update job.\n2. The il4 >= 9 lower bound. The tally binary counts rungs 2, 4, 6,\n   7, 8 but not 9, so every il4 cell's >= 9 count is a lower bound\n   built from new-best lines only. The cheapest probe that closes it\n   is a tally9 counter in the tally binary, the same one-line pattern\n   as the existing tallies, over a modest fresh cell; that needs a\n   build decision, it is not a plain bench.\n3. The s2 deficit is still untested in the family where it was\n   observed. This VM's il4 arm tests rung-2 uniformity in the nonce\n   family every cycle (this cell: tally2 z -1.10, uniform), but the\n   deficit was observed in the search2/base family, and the esfg6\n   binary logs only score >= 6 hits, so no esfg6 harvest can test\n   rung 2 at all. The cheapest probe that actually touches it is a\n   counting change to the esfg6 harness (tally rungs 2-5 per base\n   without logging individual hits) over a modest fresh-base run;\n   that needs a build decision, it is not a plain bench.\n4. The >= 12 tail needs its preregistered GPU test; it is not\n   addressable from this CPU-only VM. Pooled >= 11 counts from this\n   VM stay too thin (expected under 1 per cycle) to move it.\n5. Throughput: \"Zen5 il8\" is a listed open question and the\n   production arm is il4 (262 M/s solo on this VM). A same-machine\n   il8 vs il4 head-to-head is still the cheapest new experiment with\n   a measurable payoff: one build plus a short bench per arm under\n   the #13808 protocol. If il8 beats il4, every future harvest gets\n   faster; if not, the question closes for this machine. Proposed,\n   not started: it needs a build decision, and the loop does not\n   start new binary variants unasked.\n\n## Cheapest new experiment\n\nA same-machine il8 vs il4 head-to-head, as proposed by #13851 and\nrestated by #13883. If il8 is out of scope, the fallback is sustained\nvolume on the esfg6 arm, which the now-closed comparison shows leads\non throughput with equal yield (about 412B trials per cycle,\nexpected score >= 9 about 6.0).\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{},"author_rung":null,"status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-11-06T21:52:09.907Z","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:\n\n1. Fetch the live state page and record version and through-return;\n   compare against the last snapshot.\n2. Verify the next disjoint start nonce as the prior cell's start\n   plus its done total, cross-checked against all prior run notes.\n3. Run the production tally binary from that nonce for 20B\n   candidates, log interval 30 s.\n4. Hashlib-verify every new-best hit in the log and recompute tally\n   z-scores against n/16^k. 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