{"id":7082,"job_id":13984,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":34,"type":"measure","user_id":90,"model":"muse-spark","provider":"unknown","report_md":"# All zeros measure: first exact tally9 count from a 200B cell, yield uniform\n\nJob 13984, measure, all-zeros. Improvement claim: none. No input\nscoring 13 or above was found, and none is claimed. Nothing goes to\nthe results page. This return is a baseline measurement: it executes\nthe tally9 patch proposed by the prior explore (return 7081) and\nruns the first cell with an exact >= 9 count.\n\n## Hypothesis\n\nThe brief asks for one hypothesis about MD5's structure that would\nmake this track cheaper than generic search. The hypothesis tested\nhere is the null the prior work keeps returning to: the first-word\ntunnel family shows no exploitable structure at rung 9 on this\nscale, so its rung-9 yield equals generic search. The smallest\nexperiment that could refute it is a large cell with an exact tally9\ncount against the uniform expectation of 2.9 per 200B candidates: a\ncount far outside roughly 1 to 6 would reopen the yield question; a\ncount inside it leaves the arms yield-identical and the esfg6 win\npurely throughput.\n\n## Experiment\n\nPatch (source runs/job-13721/work/md5tun_tally.c, copied to this\njob's work dir as md5tun_tally9.c): a t9 counter beside\nt2/t4/t6/t7/t8, incremented in the full-digest branch immediately\nafter the true score is computed (score 9 or above), added to both\nprintf lines (interval and done). The branch fires for every\nfirst-word-zero candidate, so it counts every >= 9 hit exactly\nonce, including after best reaches 9. Rebuilt with gcc -O3\n-march=znver4 -mtune=znver4. Self-test: PASS (il4 validation\n100,032 candidates match scalar and il2). Smoke test 20M\ncandidates: 190.52 M/s solo, done line prints tally9.\n\nCell: patched binary, one core, 200,000,000,000 candidates from\nnonce 13309860000000 (the smoke 20M covered [13309840000000,\n13309860000000), so the cell is disjoint and the chain continues\ncleanly), log interval 120 s, exit 0. Throughput 136.19 M/s loaded\n(two cores busy; solo smoke 190.52 M/s).\n\n## Results\n\n- 200,000,000,000 candidates, [done] total 200000000000.\n- Best 9: digest 0000000002c82deb27bbcc185b5089dd, input\n  8f5b3e82581d5548fe7bdd8f3f0318103b1c0e01d09d73d3a21e0022815d5cd74500546e16fdc544a3a6ac99ca685b06a8625ed5\n  (52 bytes). Hashlib-verified from the log, 0 mismatches. The\n  score-8 best was also verified: digest\n  000000009d3a8364be611bf19617e498. Sub-13, tallied only.\n- Tallies vs uniform (200B): tally2 781,250,069 vs 781,250,000.0\n  (z +0.00); tally4 3,048,056 vs 3,051,757.8 (z -2.12); tally6\n  11,858 vs 11,920.9 (z -0.58); tally7 696 vs 745.1 (z -1.80);\n  tally8 37 vs 46.6 (z -1.40); tally9 5 vs 2.9 (z +1.22).\n  Uniform at every rung. The tally4 z of -2.12 is the largest\n  deviation across the twelve rung-cells this cycle and is within\n  looks-elsewhere noise, not a signal.\n- First exact tally9 on the il4 side: 5, not a lower bound. The\n  prior pooled il4 >= 9 figure (at least 6 over 1080B) was a lower\n  bound built from best-9 lines; this cell replaces that style of\n  bound with a count.\n\n## What this showed about MD5\n\nNothing in this cell beats generic search: the tunnel's rung-9\nyield is 5 vs 2.9 expected, and every lower rung is at or below\nits uniform expectation. The structural ideas in the brief\n(neutral bits, message modification, early abort on the final\nadditions) remain untested by this run; this cell is the baseline\nthey must beat, and its exact tally9 is the yardstick.\n\n## What the next run should try\n\nPool this cell's tally9 (5) with the hole-fill cell running in\nparallel this cycle and with the esfg6 pooled 19 vs 21.0: that is\nthe first two-sided rung-9 yield ratio on this track. After that,\nthe cheapest structural test is still the il8 vs il4 head-to-head\nthe explores keep proposing, since a wider interleave is the only\nuntried throughput lever on this CPU-only host.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{},"author_rung":null,"status":"pending","final_rung":null,"created_at":"2026-11-07T05:08:40.668Z","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\n1. Patch the tally binary: add a t9 counter incremented in the\n   full-digest branch when the recomputed score is >= 9; add\n   tally9 to both printf lines.\n2. Build: gcc -O3 -march=znver4 -mtune=znver4 -o md5tun_tally9\n   md5tun_tally9.c -lm\n3. Self-test: ./md5tun_tally9 test (expect SELFTEST PASS).\n4. Smoke: ./md5tun_tally9 <start> 20000000 5 (expect a done line\n   with tally9).\n5. Cell: ./md5tun_tally9 <start> <count> 120 > cell.log 2>&1\n   (one core; run detached so it survives the shell).\n6. Verify best hits: recompute each logged [new best] digest with\n   hashlib.md5 on the logged input hex.\n7. Compare tallies to uniform expectations (tally_k expected =\n   N / 16^k for k <= 8, N / 2^36 for tally9) with binomial\n   z-scores.","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":"2026-11-07T05:08:40.668Z","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":"Study what makes the first output word of MD5 small, and use it to reach more leading zeros than generic search would with the same compute. Ideas to test: freedom from extra message blocks, neutral bits and message modification from collision attacks applied to the output instead of a difference, early abort on the final additions. 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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