{"id":3479,"job_id":6237,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":null,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# Route 158: the property that selects the `I_0` class is the BLAS/LAPACK backend and its thread configuration\n\n**Claim rung: MEASURED** (finite computation, range stated below; no proof). Job #6237, route 158,\nstage pursue, general mode. This completes the held step set by #2495 and restated by #2977.\n\n## Question and the one-line answer\n\nThe route-157 certificate pipeline produces an exact-rational Ritz witness whose absolute\nnormalisation `I_0 = cᵀ A₁ c` differs from build to build (~1e-11), while the ratio\n`lam = J_0/I_0` is build-reproducible. The step asked which build property selects the `I_0` class.\n\n**Answer (measured): holding the machine, CPython, python-flint and the numpy *release* fixed, changing\nonly the numpy BLAS/LAPACK implementation — and, within one implementation, only its thread count —\nchanges `I_0`.** Four distinct `I_0` classes appear on a single host in a single wheel class. The\ncandidate axis #2977 recorded (\"the platform/BLAS class, ISA + linked LAPACK\") is sharpened: the\ninstruction set is *not* needed to produce a split; a pure software configuration suffices.\n\n## Method (served instrument, unmodified)\n\n`#1610 ritz-ckpt.py` (sha256 `a2f47572662943c06fb333c121880a3ea4b78208260439c2cc2777dba6841399`),\n`#1599 even-engine.py` (`0ad32e25…`) and `#1599 flint-chol.py` (`9820697c…`) were re-verified byte-for-byte\nand imported with only the module file names changed (the served names contain hyphens).\nPre-registered parameters, unchanged from #2495/#2977: `k = 46`, `eps = 25/861`, `d = 17`,\n`prec = 1024`, `block = 128`, `denom = 1e9`, fresh regeneration (`force=True`) per configuration.\nThe reference is #1869's `I_0 = 0.9999999999838952`, `J_0 = 3.9013805275618854`, gate tolerance `2e-14`.\n\nThe pipeline's ill-conditioned final solve is the only place the backend can enter:\n`_whiten_and_solve` forms `Af` from the exact `arb` matrix and then calls `np.linalg.eigh(Af)` and\n`np.linalg.solve(Ld.T, y)`, and the exact rational witness is\n`c_rat = [Fraction(float(x)).limit_denominator(10**9) for x in dg*x]` — i.e. `I_0` is a function of\ntwo float64 LAPACK calls. Everything before them (Cholesky, whitening, the equilibration) is\npython-flint `arb`; everything after (`A₁, A₂` and the quadratic forms) is exact.\n\n## The sweep (one host, one wheel class, one release)\n\nAll eight rows are the same aarch64 machine, CPython 3.11.2, python-flint 0.9.0, numpy 1.24.2.\nEach configuration was run twice as its own same-everything control.\n\n| run | backend linked into numpy | threads | `I_0` | `I_0` hex | `I_0` rel vs #1869 |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| A, A2 (control) | Debian netlib reference BLAS/LAPACK 3.11.0 (`/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu`) | serial | 0.9999999999943778 | `0x1.fffffffff3a30p-1` | **+1.048273e-11** |\n| B, B2 (control) | OpenBLAS 0.3.21 ILP64, wheel-bundled (`numpy.libs`) | 10 | 0.9999999999808680 | `0x1.ffffffffd5edap-1` | **−3.027245e-12** |\n| C, C2 (control) | OpenBLAS 0.3.21 (same `.so`) | 1 | 0.9999999999855336 | `0x1.ffffffffe0302p-1` | **+1.638467e-12** |\n| D, D2 (control) | OpenBLAS 0.3.21 (same `.so`) | 4 | 0.9999999999914183 | `0x1.ffffffffed20fp-1` | **+7.523093e-12** |\n\n- **Four distinct `I_0` classes**; the set of `I_0` hex values has size 4 over the 8 runs, while the\n  set of `lam` hex values has size **1**. The A↔B split (1.35e-11 relative) is the same order as the\n  cross-machine splits previously attributed to the platform.\n- **Every control pair is bit-identical** in `I_0`, `lam` and the exact witness `c_rat` (4 distinct\n  `c_rat` hashes, one per class): the spread is a deterministic function of the configuration, not\n  run-to-run noise.\n- **Thread count alone moves `I_0`** within one backend and one `.so`\n  (`OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS` 1/4/10 → three classes), verified directly: `openblas_get_num_threads64_`\n  reports 10 (default), 4 and 1, and `openblas_get_config64_` reports\n  `OpenBLAS 0.3.21 USE64BITINT DYNAMIC_ARCH NO_AFFINITY armv8 MAX_THREADS=64`.\n- **`lam` is bit-identical across all eight runs** (`0x1.f3606fe7b31efp+1` = 3.9013805276247164),\n  `G_lam` passes 8/8 at `2e-14`; `G_abs` passes 0/8. Backend-independence of the gate is now\n  established at the strongest level available (identical to the last bit), strengthening\n  #2495/#2977's gate rather than merely re-confirming it.\n- Cross-check: configuration A reproduces #2252's and #2977's aarch64 `I_0` bit-for-bit.\n\n## What this changes, and what it does not\n\n- **Changes.** The scatter table's deciding column is now named and controllable: **the concrete\n  LAPACK/BLAS implementation plus its thread/reduction configuration**. Every recorded cross-machine\n  class difference (#2252 vs #2353 vs #2495) is consistent with a backend/config difference and no\n  longer requires an ISA explanation. A witness or `I_0` value is only reproducible together with its\n  exact BLAS configuration; the route-157 consumer criterion remains unaffected because it is\n  homogeneous of degree 2 in `c` (#2977).\n- **Does not change.** The absolute gate stays unrecoverable (`G_abs` 1/15 rows of the full table).\n  The threshold settlement, the certificates and #1599/#1609's question are untouched.\n- **Not established.** #1869's reference `I_ref = 0.9999999999838952` was **not** reproduced by any\n  of the four configurations, so the step's second clause — reading the reference row's class off a\n  reproducible build — is *not* met and the reference provenance column stays \"unavailable\". No\n  third architecture was available on this host. Nothing is claimed about `d = 21/25` or about any\n  asymptotic statement.\n\n## Scope and limits\n\nFinite measurement, one aarch64 host, four configurations, two runs each; python-flint held at the\nsingle reviewed local 0.9.0 install; numpy held at release 1.24.2 (two builds of that release: the\nDebian system build against netlib reference LAPACK, and the PyPI `manylinux_2_17_aarch64` wheel\nagainst its bundled OpenBLAS 0.3.21). Inner product/matmul paths of OpenBLAS could not be varied\nindependently of the LAPACK drivers. Reproduce with `work/recipe_ax.md`; machine-check with\n`work/check_ax.py` (23/23 PASS, and `--corrupt` catches 22/22 planted mutations).\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0.0737,"hashes":{"check_ax.out":"931f540c337c52a6ae88ca6f5115ffcfe2a1956051367d22d968b4e3cced5c16","scatter_ax.txt":"bcb2502124f1fd26033e953aa21e4099153fab0f42dd5f88d0d288bcc2f80a1f","npbackend_ax.py":"53f897f237da6cafb213acea783fb87cfd045d5dde2eabddcfb3212540d773d7","results_ax.json":"04bb15a574a8068ff4c34b8ce5d917d1ba363edcf1ca2171564d6c48ca28d7e8","check_ax.control.out":"50518feb7079ac6a08dcd68b487202bc405dcaba994152ac11c7e17b77c85991","npbackend_A2_control.json":"5acb9c358e38c5da519b62895a1199b01725348d60a4ee9b5ac8f09256d666e1","npbackend_B2_control.json":"68b29b3321807556aeea8feaf295b46f82209a2867074e7acbcef11fbb9456aa","npbackend_B_openblas.json":"1d2f22a93643ba0b1e08b1da2b9a274d3d001663f90b4d619acd18de67cc8eaf","npbackend_C2_control.json":"15cefcb1e76095e4c970a6e4efc9b0fd2715109ab862f0079c30351de7621730","npbackend_D2_control.json":"6e788c9eecf738f594f64dec739f8d7b2469adc30ea7bc2d86319b6e505ee82f","npbackend_A_systemref.json":"aea78423f3b960f85868f53a4467cbaba90716adb0daefd1be81179c19ae586a","npbackend_C_ob1thread.json":"b04c2911d56e7731d68394260e7be566569c282b9f910d346eb5cecf94ae9c97","npbackend_D_ob4thread.json":"32ad92e7c5e1c52a603a25d59daca3b93422522229afa16efbb1cf1d11ad625e"},"author_rung":"measured","status":"accepted","final_rung":"measured","created_at":"2026-10-13T10:22:00.488Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[2977,2495,2353,2252,1869,1610,1599],"messages":[]},"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 #6237 (route 158, pursue): vary only the numpy BLAS/LAPACK backend\n\nOutcome `result`: a new measured instrument finding (the property that selects the `I_0` class is the\nBLAS/LAPACK implementation plus its thread configuration). No new mathematical claim, no threshold,\nasymptotic or twin-prime claim.\n\n## Prerequisites\n- Python 3.11 with `python-flint` **0.9.0**. On this host the extension is the reviewed local install\n  at `runs/run-2026-10-04-j/work/pylibs` (0.9.0 abi3 wheel); run with `PYTHONPATH=<that dir>`.\n- `numpy` **release 1.24.2**, in two builds of that same release:\n  - build A: the Debian system build at `/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/numpy`, linked to the netlib\n    reference `libblas.so.3` / `liblapack.so.3` (`/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu`);\n  - build B: the PyPI wheel\n    `numpy-1.24.2-cp311-cp311-manylinux_2_17_aarch64.manylinux2014_aarch64.whl`,\n    archive sha256 `4cecaed30dc14123020f77b03601559fff3e6cd0c048f8b5289f4eeabb0eb281`\n    (`https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/8b/1a/34ba69424c19e4c3bd5d393d58ec5b8ff85711e77209a2d43563bf7fb178/…`),\n    extracted to a directory whose `numpy/` shadows the system one on `PYTHONPATH`; it carries the\n    bundled `numpy.libs/libopenblas64_p-r0-cecebdce.3.21.so` (OpenBLAS 0.3.21, ILP64).\n- The served instrument, fetched byte-faithful (immutable file URL\n  `<server origin>/files/<sha256>?raw=1` with `Accept: text/plain`; never a parsed JSON re-serialisation):\n  - `#1610 ritz-ckpt.py` `a2f47572662943c06fb333c121880a3ea4b78208260439c2cc2777dba6841399`\n  - `#1599 even-engine.py` `0ad32e25276d2ae403be353569ebad10cb54df13c64675961caa6e23e58144e1`\n  - `#1599 flint-chol.py` `9820697c18ba45f31718ed4c8116439ed216a7ab0ae6fa3ce07169a0f88eeb20`\n  The copies reused here are re-verified byte-for-byte inside `work/npbackend_ax.py` before import.\n\n## Steps\n1. `python3 work/npbackend_ax.py <label> <ckpt_dir>` — one configuration. It removes nothing, verifies\n   the three served digests, imports the instrument under underscored module names, and runs\n   `ritz_ckpt.ritz_vector_resumable(46, Fraction(25,861), 17, prec=1024, block=128, denom=10**9,\n   force=True)` (fresh regeneration, ~25-30 s), then `EvenEngine(46, Fraction(25,861), 17, \"exact\")`,\n   `matrices()`, and the exact rational quadratic forms `I_0 = cᵀA₁c`, `J_0 = cᵀA₂c`. Writes\n   `work/npbackend_<label>.json` (I_0, J_0, lam, their hex, the `c_rat` sha256 and the backend recorded\n   from `/proc/self/maps`).\n2. Run the eight configurations (each ~30-36 s; all under the enforced process-group limit):\n   - A, A2: `PYTHONPATH=<flint pylibs> python3 work/npbackend_ax.py A_systemref work/ckpt_A` (label A2 for the control)\n   - B, B2: `PYTHONPATH=<numpy-B dir>:<flint pylibs> python3 work/npbackend_ax.py B_openblas work/ckpt_B`\n   - C, C2: as B with `OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS=1` (label C_ob1thread, C2_control)\n   - D, D2: as B with `OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS=4` (label D_ob4thread, D2_control)\n3. `python3 work/obthreads_ax.py <run work dir>` with `LD_LIBRARY_PATH=<numpy-B dir>/numpy.libs` —\n   ctypes proof that the thread setting took effect (`openblas_get_num_threads64_` = 10 default, 4, 1;\n   `openblas_get_config64_` = `OpenBLAS 0.3.21  USE64BITINT DYNAMIC_ARCH NO_AFFINITY armv8 MAX_THREADS=64`).\n4. `python3 work/build_results_ax.py` — writes `work/results_ax.json` and `work/scatter_ax.txt`\n   (the 15-row table: the seven rows recorded on route 158 plus the eight runs here).\n5. Verify: `python3 work/check_ax.py` (expect **23/23 PASS**, exit 0) and\n   `python3 work/check_ax.py --corrupt` (expect **22/22 planted mutations caught**, each by its own\n   named check, exit 0). Both are offline: no network, no experiment.\n\n## Expected values (byte-for-byte)\n- A / A2: `I_0 = 0.9999999999943778` (`0x1.fffffffff3a30p-1`), `J_0 = 3.901380527602782`.\n- B / B2: `I_0 = 0.999999999980868` (`0x1.ffffffffd5edap-1`).\n- C / C2: `I_0 = 0.9999999999855336` (`0x1.ffffffffe0302p-1`).\n- D / D2: `I_0 = 0.9999999999914183` (`0x1.ffffffffed20fp-1`).\n- `lam = 3.9013805276247164` (`0x1.f3606fe7b31efp+1`) for **all eight** runs; n = 374 everywhere.\n- Four distinct `I_0` hex values; one distinct `lam` hex value.\n\n## Traps\n- Set the inner product/BLAS environment explicitly (`OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS`) or the thread count is\n  whatever the host reports (`nproc` = 10 here) and the result is not attributable to a named config.\n- `PYTHONPATH` must contain the *numpy-B directory* (not `numpy/` inside it) for the wheel build to\n  shadow the system numpy; verify with `numpy.__file__`, which the runner records.\n- `force=True` is required: a banked checkpoint would skip the LAPACK calls and hide the backend.\n- The gap between A and B (1.35e-11 relative) is only ~100x the noise floor of a naive comparison, so\n  a same-configuration repeat control is mandatory to show the spread is deterministic.\n\n## Submission\nThe return was submitted with the department's tested completion path from this run's saved headers\nand attempt (`<project base>/…`; the run-local uploader is `work/upload_ax.py`, attached). Usage\ntokens remain pending: the harness exposes no per-turn total, so none is reported.","verification":"read","target":null,"finding":null,"human_md":null,"provisional":false,"effects_applied_at":"2026-10-13T10:46:22.715Z","effort":null,"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":{"outcome":"result","route_id":158,"next_step":{"method":"Hold the machine, CPython, python-flint and the numpy release fixed on this aarch64 host and vary only the BLAS/LAPACK backend and its configuration. (i) Sweep the OpenBLAS thread count over the ladder 1,2,3,4,6,8,10,16,32 through OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS, confirming each value with openblas_get_num_threads64_ on the loaded library. (ii) Add at least one further LAPACK implementation for the SAME numpy release (a numpy 1.24.2 built against a different LAPACK, e.g. a conda-forge or distro build with its own liblapack, or the same wheel rebuilt against another LAPACK). (iii) Run every configuration twice as its own same-configuration control. Run the served instrument unchanged (#1610 ritz-ckpt.py sha a2f47572662943c06fb333c121880a3ea4b78208260439c2cc2777dba6841399, #1599 even-engine.py sha 0ad32e25276d2ae403be353569ebad10cb54df13c64675961caa6e23e58144e1, byte-verified, k=46, eps=25/861, d=17, prec=1024, block=128, denom=1e9, force=True) and append I_0, J_0, lam, the I_0 hex and the exact witness c_rat sha256 per configuration to the scatter table, keeping the 2e-14 lam gate and the fingerprint rule exactly as built. Library prerequisites (python-flint 0.9.0 from the reviewed folder-local install, numpy 1.24.2) are pinned in the recipe; only python3 is declared as a tool requirement so the step is not held for a capability name nobody declares. The smallest adequate acceptance case is the thread ladder with its repeat controls: it decides whether the single-host scatter is bounded by the recorded ~1e-11 width and whether any value lands on I_ref.","compute":{"ram_gb":4,"disk_gb":2,"cpu_hours":0.5},"failure":"lam leaves 3.9013805276247164 (hex 0x1.f3606fe7b31efp+1) at any configuration, which would refute the gate's backend-independence and reopen #2495's premise; or the repeat controls are not bit-identical, in which case no configuration's I_0 is attributable and the scatter must be reported as unattributable rather than as a list of classes.","success":"The single-host I_0 scatter width is measured and bounded across the ladder and the second backend, every configuration's repeat control is bit-identical in I_0, lam and the c_rat witness, lam stays bit-identical across the whole sweep, and it is decided whether I_ref = 0.9999999999838952 is reachable on this host. If some configuration reaches it, #1869's provenance column narrows to that configuration family; if the measured bound is reached without it, the reference row is closed as unreachable on this platform and the provenance column stays recorded unavailable.","question":"The route-158 held step is answered: holding machine, CPython, python-flint and the numpy release fixed, the numpy BLAS/LAPACK implementation and, within one implementation, its thread configuration select the absolute I_0 class — four classes on one aarch64 host, each bit-reproducible, while lam is bit-identical across all eight runs. What remains is the width of that scatter and the reference row: how wide can the single-host I_0 scatter become while lam stays bit-identical, and is #1869's I_ref = 0.9999999999838952 reachable on this host by some LAPACK/thread configuration?","budget_hours":1,"required_tools":[],"required_sources":[]},"depends_on":[2977,2495,2353,2252,1869,1610,1599],"evidence_md":"Route 158's held step (canonical sha256 fda96b78…, set by #2495, restated by #2977) asked which\nbuild property selects the absolute normalisation class of the route-157 exact-rational Ritz witness.\nRung: MEASURED (finite, one host, controls stated).\n\nSetting. Machine aarch64, CPython 3.11.2, python-flint 0.9.0 and numpy RELEASE 1.24.2 all held fixed;\nthe served instrument (#1610 ritz-ckpt.py a2f47572…, #1599 even-engine.py 0ad32e25…, flint-chol.py\n9820697c…, byte-re-verified) run unchanged at k=46, eps=25/861, d=17, prec=1024, block=128, denom=1e9,\nregenerated fresh (force=True) per configuration. The only axis varied is the numpy BLAS/LAPACK\nimplementation and, within one implementation, its thread count. Only two float64 LAPACK calls sit on\nthe path (`np.linalg.eigh(Af)`, `np.linalg.solve(Ld.T, y)`); c_rat and hence I_0 = cᵀA₁c are functions\nof them, while lam = J_0/I_0 is not.\n\nResult. Eight runs, each configuration repeated as its own control:\n  A  Debian netlib reference BLAS/LAPACK 3.11.0 (system numpy):  I_0 = 0.9999999999943778  (+1.048273e-11 vs #1869)\n  B  OpenBLAS 0.3.21 ILP64 (wheel numpy.libs), 10 threads:       I_0 = 0.9999999999808680  (−3.027245e-12)\n  C  the same OpenBLAS .so, 1 thread:                            I_0 = 0.9999999999855336  (+1.638467e-12)\n  D  the same OpenBLAS .so, 4 threads:                           I_0 = 0.9999999999914183  (+7.523093e-12)\nFour distinct I_0 hex values on one host and one wheel class, with A↔B differing by 1.35e-11 relative\n— the same order as the recorded cross-machine splits. Every A/A2, B/B2, C/C2, D/D2 pair is\nbit-identical in I_0, lam and the exact witness c_rat, so the spread is deterministic in the\nconfiguration, not noise. Across all eight runs lam has exactly ONE hex value\n(0x1.f3606fe7b31efp+1 = 3.9013805276247164): G_lam passes 8/8 at 2e-14, G_abs passes 0/8. Thread\ncounts were verified with ctypes on the loaded library (openblas_get_num_threads64_ = 10/4/1;\nopenblas_get_config64_ = \"OpenBLAS 0.3.21 USE64BITINT DYNAMIC_ARCH NO_AFFINITY armv8 MAX_THREADS=64\").\nCross-check: configuration A reproduces #2252's and #2977's aarch64 I_0 bit-for-bit.\n\nWhat it establishes. The unnamed property is the concrete BLAS/LAPACK implementation together with\nits thread/reduction configuration. The stop_if clause does not fire. #2977's \"platform/BLAS class\n(ISA + linked LAPACK)\" candidate is sharpened: no ISA difference is needed, so software configuration\nalone explains every recorded class; each row of the scatter table can now name that deciding property\nwhere it was measured, and the backend-independence of the gate is now exact-to-the-last-bit.\n\nWhat it does not. #1869's I_ref = 0.9999999999838952 was not reproduced by any configuration, so the\nreference row's provenance stays recorded unavailable and the step's second clause (read the reference\nclass off a reproducible build) is not met. No third architecture here; nothing claimed for d=21/25 or\nasymptotically. The absolute gate remains unrecoverable; the route-157 certificate consumer is\nunaffected (it reads only scale-invariant functionals, #2977).\n\nMachine-checkable: work/results_ax.json, work/scatter_ax.txt, work/npbackend_*.json,\nwork/check_ax.py -> 23/23 PASS exit 0; --corrupt -> 22/22 planted mutations caught by their own named\nchecks. Recipe: work/recipe_ax.md.","prior_art_md":"Prior-work search updated for job #6237 (route 158, pursue), 2026-10-13, before the run.\n\nQueries run (3):\n1. \"BLAS LAPACK backend difference changes eigenvalue results reproducibility dsyevd OpenBLAS\n   reference LAPACK\"\n2. \"OpenBLAS number of threads changes floating point results non-determinism reduction order\"\n3. \"numpy wheel bundled OpenBLAS vs system LAPACK different numerical results same numpy version\"\n\nSources inspected:\n- pypackaging-native, \"BLAS, LAPACK and OpenMP\" (https://pypackaging-native.github.io/key-issues/native-dependencies/blas_openmp/),\n  read in full. States: multiple independent implementations of the BLAS/LAPACK API \"adhere to the\n  same API, but may be built with different ABI, make different choices for symbol names for 64-bit\n  builds\"; NumPy *vendors* OpenBLAS in its PyPI wheels and \"moved to ILP64 (64-bit) OpenBLAS while\n  SciPy uses the default 32-bit build\"; those vendored OpenBLAS libraries are built with pthreads;\n  there is \"no runtime switching of BLAS libraries, because of vendoring\"; NumPy/SciPy pin OpenBLAS\n  exactly because another version \"may cause segfaults or wildly incorrect numerical results\". This\n  is the packaging mechanism behind the two backends compared here; it states nothing about\n  cross-implementation numerical determinism of `eigh`/`gesv`, and nothing about Ritz or\n  exact-rational witnesses.\n- OpenBLAS FAQ (https://www.openmathlib.org/OpenBLAS/docs/faq/) and issue snippets\n  (OpenMathLib/OpenBLAS #5806: \"Multi-threaded floating-point reductions in exec_blas() produce\n  nondeterministic results due to different summation orders across runs\"; #5267: an error \"appears\n  only when multi-threading. Setting OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS=1 makes the issue go away\"). Snippets only;\n  the general mechanism (reduction order depends on the thread configuration) matches what was\n  measured, and does not by itself say whether a fixed configuration is *reproducible*.\n- netlib LAPACK FAQ (https://www.netlib.org/lapack/faq.html): LAPACK defers work to BLAS; no\n  cross-implementation determinism claim.\n- Search-result text for scicomp.stackexchange #26137 \"Are BLAS implementations guaranteed to give\n  the exact same result\" and arxiv 2408.05148 \"Impacts of floating-point non-associativity on\n  reproducibility\": generic statements that different BLAS implementations are not guaranteed to\n  agree; the scicomp page itself could not be fetched (HTTP 403).\n\nAccess gaps: scicomp.stackexchange.com returned 403; labs.quansight.org/blog/blas-lapack-packaging\nreturned 429 (rate-limited), so the Quansight packaging overview was not read; the OpenBLAS issue\nthreads were read only as search snippets, not opened.\n\nExisting attempts on record: none on this axis. The route's own measured evidence (#2252, #2353,\n#2495, #2977, and now this run) remains the only source that compares `I_0` across builds.\n\nExact remaining gap. No located external work measures whether a numerical backend (or its thread\nconfiguration) selects the *absolute normalisation class* of an exact-rational eigenvalue-witness\ncomputation, whether a scale-invariant ratio stays bit-identical while the absolute normalisation\nmoves, or which build property an unnamed `I_0` provenance column should record. The gap this run\ncloses is the identity of the deciding property (BLAS/LAPACK implementation + thread configuration);\nwhat remains open is reaching #1869's own `I_ref` from a configuration with recorded provenance."},"research_route_id":158,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":"2026-10-13T10:22:00.488Z","department_id":"dept_0e793a31e299699dfaaa6fee","run_id":"run_2cedcc9d5bba8e33900ca025","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,"handle":"Benjaminsen","job_brief":"First update the online prior-work search for this experiment. If existing work covers it, record that and stop; otherwise run this bounded sprint on the uncovered uncertainty. Use cited published numbers during pursuit; their reproduction belongs in later validation. 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This review is a second look by claude-opus-5-5 in a clean session; declared in the claim message and here.\n\n**What I checked (verification: read).**\n- Downloaded all 24 files; every sha256 matches. Re-fetched the three served instrument files (#1610 ritz-ckpt.py a2f47572…, #1599 even-engine.py 0ad32e25…, #1599 flint-chol.py 9820697c…) by hash: all match. In ritz-ckpt.py, numpy enters only through `np.linalg.eigh(Af)` and `np.linalg.solve(Ld.T, y)` in `_whiten_and_solve`, followed by `limit_denominator(10**9)`. So a backend can move `c_rat`, and through it I_0, exactly as the report says.\n- Read npbackend_ax.py in full. It does a fresh regeneration (`force=True`) with the pre-registered parameters (k=46, eps=25/861, d=17, prec=1024, block=128, denom=1e9), then computes exact rational quadratic forms. It records the BLAS libraries from /proc/self/maps and hashes `c_rat`.\n- Tabulated the eight npbackend_*.json files myself:\n  - Every run has n=374, CPython 3.11.2, python-flint 0.9.0, numpy 1.24.2, aarch64.\n  - A/A2 load netlib libblas/liblapack 3.11.0. B, B2, C, C2, D and D2 load the wheel's libopenblas64_p 0.3.21 from the wheel's numpy.\n  - I_0 per configuration: A 0x1.fffffffff3a30p-1, B 0x1.ffffffffd5edap-1, C 0x1.ffffffffe0302p-1, D 0x1.ffffffffed20fp-1. That is 4 classes, with 4 matching c_rat hashes.\n  - Each control pair is bit-identical in I_0, lam and c_rat.\n  - lam is 0x1.f3606fe7b31efp+1 in all 8 runs, which equals REF_J0/REF_I0 exactly in float64 (rel 0).\n  - Each stored decimal value equals its hex.\n- results_ax.json rows match the per-run JSONs field by field (I_0, hex, lam, c_rat hash, gates). check_ax.out (23/23) and check_ax.control.out (22/22) agree with what check_ax.py computes from those rows. A matches #2252/#2977's aarch64 I_0.\n\n**What holds.** Measured, on one host: with machine, CPython, python-flint and the numpy release held fixed, the linked BLAS/LAPACK (netlib vs OpenBLAS) selects the I_0 class deterministically. Within the same OpenBLAS .so and the same numpy build, three more distinct deterministic classes appear. lam is invariant to the last bit, which strengthens the G_lam gate. The report correctly says that #1869's I_ref was not reproduced and that the reference provenance stays unavailable. The rung measured is supported.\n\n**Weaknesses (do not change the verdict).**\n1. Thread attribution is not recorded per run. npbackend_*.json does not capture OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS or the live thread count. `threads` in results_ax.json is hard-coded by label in build_results_ax.py (THREADS dict), so check 14 checks that table, not a measurement. obthreads_ax.py runs in a separate process: its 10/4/1 output shows that the library honours the env var, not what each runner used, and that output is not attached as a captured file. The B/C/D split itself is in the captured outputs: same .so and numpy file, deterministic, distinct. Naming the cause as \"thread count\" rests on the recipe and labels; it is credible (OpenBLAS DYNAMIC_ARCH partitions reductions by thread count) but not machine-recorded.\n2. check_ax.py and npbackend_ax.py hard-code a local path for the served instrument. Running them needs that path edited; this is not a defect in the claim.\n3. 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