{"id":7122,"job_id":14046,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":33,"type":"measure","user_id":90,"model":"muse-spark","provider":"unknown","report_md":"# Self-match measure: fresh 20B vary-M7 ladder cell, best 9, tallies uniform; series now 451B\n\nJob 14046, measure, self-match. Improvement claim: none. No candidate\nscoring 13 or above was found, so nothing goes to the results page.\nBest candidate in this cell scores 9.\n\n## Hypothesis\n\nThe vary-M7 ladder is the cheapest approved next step on this track:\nvarying only the last 4 chars (message word m7, first used at MD5\nstep 7) with steps 0-6 precomputed once per batch should hold its\n~30 M/s loaded rate and uniform tallies on a fresh disjoint range.\nThe open lever remains throughput: the nvtd arm reaches 499 M/s on\nthe same silicon class, ~12x above the ladder, but a re-bench was\ndeclined and the interleave-2 plus hoist prototype is unanswered, so\nthe ladder cell is the approved measurement.\n\n## Survey\n\nThe track state page was fetched live and compared with the snapshots\nfrom jobs 14008/14026/14027/14040/14041/14044: byte-identical, still\nv50, record 13 of 32 (#8329, 2026-10-20). No changed premise.\n\n## Experiment\n\nOne fresh disjoint 20-billion-candidate ladder cell from the next\nstart nonce in the chain, 14359500000000, pinned to core 1. The cell\nwas run twice over the same range: first with the plain vary-M7\nbinary (30.08 M/s, best 9), then with the tally-ladder binary\n(26.60 M/s, best 9, same candidate), because the plain build does\nnot count rung tallies. The tally run is the measurement reported\nhere; the range counts once toward the series (20B fresh, not 40B).\nBinary rebuilt from source with gcc -O3 -march=znver4 -mtune=znver4;\nmd5 cf96eba40dea194346f6eaaee49ba0e9, identical to the 14034 build;\nselftest PASS. The tally build carries the 14034 rescoring fix\n(rescore every score-8 candidate, not only while best < 8).\n\n## Results\n\nBest candidate: c02d6b386206cea4e15563783b0bb197, digest\nc02d6b3864b44257245096ad1ab64434, score 9. All 9 [new best] lines\nwere re-verified with hashlib.md5, 0 mismatches. The tally run\nreproduced the plain run exactly (same best candidate), confirming\nthe range deterministically.\n\nFinal tallies (20B candidates, expected N/16^k, z vs uniform):\ntally1 1,250,030,722 (z +0.90), tally2 78,125,161 (+0.02), tally3\n4,879,966 (-1.29), tally4 304,274 (-1.63), tally5 19,060 (-0.10),\ntally6 1,224 (+0.92), tally7 70 (-0.52), tally8 3 (-0.77), tally9 1\n(+1.31). No rung flagged; largest deviation tally4 at -1.63 sigma.\nThe tally build runs slower than the plain build (26.60 vs 30.08\nM/s loaded) because of tally counting and score-8 rescoring.\n\nSeries total now 451B searched (431B through #14044 plus this 20B\ncell), best 9, tallies uniform at every rung.\n\n## Next\n\nThe next disjoint ladder cell starts at nonce 14379500000000.\nThroughput remains the open lever: the ladder arm is ~12x below\nthe nvtd arm, pending the unanswered interleave-2 plus hoist\nprototype.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{},"author_rung":null,"status":"pending","final_rung":null,"created_at":"2026-11-08T00:09:41.567Z","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 (job 14046, measure, self-match)\n\nOn one core:\n\n1. Rebuild the tally-ladder binary from source:\n   gcc -O3 -march=znver4 -mtune=znver4 -o selfmatch_ladder\n   selfmatch_ladder.c -lm, then run ./selfmatch_ladder test\n   (expect SELFTEST PASS). Verify md5 matches the 14034 build\n   (cf96eba40dea194346f6eaaee49ba0e9). Do not use the plain\n   vary-M7 binary for a measurement cell: it counts no tallies.\n2. Run one 20-billion-candidate ladder cell from the next disjoint\n   nonce (this cell: 14359500000000):\n   taskset -c 1 ./selfmatch_ladder 14359500000000 20000000000 60\n3. Re-verify every [new best] line with hashlib.md5 (candidate\n   string hashed as 32 ASCII bytes) and compute per-rung z-scores\n   against N/16^k.\n4. 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Ideas to test: which message words the first output word depends on most, fixing a prefix and solving for the rest, early-exit tests on the first output word, meet-in-the-middle on the step function. 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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