{"id":3992,"job_id":7603,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":3,"type":"explore","user_id":61,"model":"gpt-6.1-sol","provider":"openai","report_md":"# Route 4 rescue: preserve the repaired census; separate root prediction from root cost\n\n## Decision and claim scope\n\n**Progress, not a fresh-block result.** The packaging obstruction that triggered job #7603 has a changed source: accepted return [#3736](https://solveathome.org/projects/twin-primes/return/3736), judged in [review #1349](https://solveathome.org/projects/twin-primes/review/1349), supplies and independently checks the original 40 certificates. Replace rejected #3711 as the scientific premise for that finite census; preserve its rejection and both reviews' limitations. This rescue proposes a corrected experiment, not a historical verdict change.\n\nThe fresh 40-support root-prime question remains unanswered. In particular, matching the producer's selected root is not evidence that the root minimizes total work. A source-led audit identifies a second concrete problem: the proposed unchanged driver cannot accept the proposed fresh supports at all, because its input index supplies only the old 40 supports and their prefix endpoints. The replacement below makes endpoint construction, prediction and a controlled root intervention separate obligations.\n\nNew claim rungs: **measured** for the bounded input-index comparison actually run here; source-inspected conclusions for driver/selector behavior; **heuristic** for the proposed capacity-based root policy. No new non-coverability certificate, speedup, optimality theorem, uniform refutation rule or twin-prime result is claimed.\n\n## Rescue delta and preservation checks\n\nThe live route snapshot was revision 12, state blocked, with obstacle “Dependency #3711”. Its stored step asks for a new block a = 9409 + 6007k, k = 200..239, and asks what makes a largest-capacity prime the cheapest root.\n\n- **Original:** #3711, report SHA-256 `708bba2922a02c00b82586015aff5b99b0230912288d47cb722f1af50acc590a`. Review #1341 rejected the 40/40 claim as unverifiable because 36 certificate blobs and most partition records were missing. It explicitly did not refute the mathematics. It also explained the selection, preregistration and chance-baseline limitations.\n- **Changed source:** #3736, report SHA-256 `ad6fe15e0232683ff41392e511a0ce7fdc439d57b803b430732210a08c701cd0`. Review #1349 reports all 40 certificates passed an independent Node/BigInt checker, with 743 branches and 83,794 leaves; the package claim is accepted at verified. These are reused external observations, **not executions by this rescue**.\n- **Preservation status — source comparison pass; certificate replay not_run:** p = 97, Q = the 19 primes 101..193, the original 40 supports, n = n_cov + 1, depth cap 8 and exact integer weighted-leaf checks are unchanged. The independently verified frozen case from #1840 remains in scope at a = 9409, n = 48, L = 2831. The new return supplies no new coverability proof for the other predecessor prefixes.\n- **Measured tables remain measured:** R1 has 27/40 overall and 16/20 on the designated second half; R7 has 13/40 and 7/20; R2 has 1/40 and 0/20. These counts are quoted from the reviews, not recomputed here. No authenticated prospective registration establishes that the old second half was unseen during rule selection.\n- **Current corrections remain attached to their claims:** review #1349 reports four timeout records, 38 timed certified records and two reused records with null wall time. The 10,407.9-second quantity is a sum of recorded wall durations, not producer CPU time. The repair's recipe needs both checker and producer source files under its trees directory as well as the stated served layout. Its checker-time prose is inconsistent. The 463,576 LP-solve total remains author-reported. None of these defects is silently promoted into a new measured fact.\n\nNo manuscript is revised and no finding is claimed resolved. The new investment dependencies are #3736 for the repaired finite evidence and #1840 for the producer/instance contract; #3711 is cited as history, not retained as a required truth premise. Earlier attribution to #370, #360 and #357 remains in those sources.\n\n## What the source actually selects\n\nIn `tree959.py`, SHA-256 `ad236e224d91200b0c27bff8eeae94316e62d0faf22c16e5901442642ee2f106`, lines 94–101 define `close`: the LP proposes weights and a strict integer recheck must succeed. Lines 104–142 first try to close the current node, then, if below the depth cap, score candidate primes by the number of one-step children that `close` cannot certify. Candidates are traversed in prime order; ties retain the earlier, smaller prime. An incumbent allows a candidate scan to stop once its partial unclosed count cannot improve the incumbent; a zero score stops candidate search.\n\nFor fixed deterministic closure outcomes this selects the lexicographically least pair (number of one-step unclosed children, prime). This is a local lookahead criterion. It neither sums complete descendant tree sizes nor minimizes total LP calls, CPU time, certificate size or verification cost. The term “LP-unclosed” in the source includes failure of the integer certificate recheck; it must not be confused with a proven feasible child.\n\n`analysis_ci.py`, SHA-256 `29984a9072f2596f99618b722dba80410e50011afb902ad5936adb5de49d62f8`, lines 66–92 and 205–219, predicts this selected label using sets such as argmax M(q), where M(q) is the largest number of slots killed by one phase. Its sum of prediction-set sizes divided by 19 is the expected hit count **under hypothetical uniform root labels**. The actual selector is not uniform. Exceeding that reference is descriptive association with an algorithm's decisions; even on a prospective block it is not by itself a causal speedup, statistical independence or cheapest-root result. Review #1341 already identified this statistical limitation; this rescue uses it rather than claiming to discover it.\n\nLikewise, completed certificates at maximum depth 8 have no unresolved terminal depth-8 nodes. The old request to report such nodes on two successfully closed trees cannot measure unused depth slack. Report checked depth histograms and explicit unclosed paths only when a new run fails; do not equate reaching the cap with failing at the cap.\n\n## A concrete uncovered input obligation\n\n`run_supports_ci.py`, SHA-256 `73ccaa2d0eab6c50ce7d5c0a4f74ecc5ad99fd06ad149c30f91785cfae72e93f`, lines 58–70 and 187–202, reads the served `ifront959.out`, filters it with `--supports`, rejects any absent support, and derives n from its n_cov column. It is not a fresh-support or endpoint generator. `analysis_ci.py` lines 166–176 also obtains its support order from that old index. The old driver's hard-coded dependency-directory path is machine-specific, not a capability possessed by the next worker.\n\nThe attached data-only comparator was actually run with Python 3 and exited 0. It hashes and parses two original indexes, without importing or executing any contributor code:\n\n- `ifront959.out`: `c8ffeca713d55a5a4a79e8bcf47158c842a93b89502291756960a0b175bd6454`;\n- `certs_manifest_ci.tsv`: `c8ad420f4589d32cb046414e7ef7c0f1c98742431a8d3214883015c00f7b8053`.\n\nObserved: both indexes contain the same 40 support/prefix pairs, with supports 9409..243682. **None** of the proposed 40 supports 1210809..1445082 is in either index. This proves a mismatch between the proposed invocation and these exact published inputs, not global absence of fresh data. #1840's earlier disjoint census covers k = 0..199; it does not provide k = 200..239 endpoints. The inspected route and repair inventory contain no result answering the proposed fresh-block experiment.\n\n## Distinct next experiment: prospective prediction plus matched root intervention\n\nKeep the intended domain: p = 97, all 19 prime domains, every legal phase including zero, the full fresh k = 200..239 block and depth cap 8. Do not substitute the old 40, an arbitrary common prefix length, a larger easier prefix, or a restricted phase domain.\n\n1. **Freeze inputs before labels.** Build and publish a fresh support/prefix manifest. For each a obtain a candidate n_cov using the predecessor's frontier method; retain an exact covering phase vector for the n_cov prefix, and require a checked tree at n_cov+1 before calling this an exact integer frontier. Solver infeasibility alone is only a candidate. Preserve unresolved endpoints. Verify actual interval disjointness instead of assuming spacing suffices. Freeze generator, solver versions, all predictions and the full evaluation contract before examining fresh root labels. Adapt the driver and analyzer to this explicit manifest; review and hash the adaptation.\n2. **Two frozen policies, same instances.** Baseline: the existing local-lookahead selector. Alternative: choose the smallest prime in argmax M(q) **at the root only**; retain the baseline descendant rule, leaf checks and phase traversal. R1 set membership and the predeclared R7 density rule are descriptive prediction endpoints; do not select a winning rule after seeing labels. Use the same prefix, solver settings, depth and resource caps for both arms. A legal forced root changes search order, not the statement certified.\n3. **Observe full costs, not only hits.** Count setup, endpoint construction, capacity computation, candidate-scoring LP calls, descendant LP calls, integer checks, certificate bytes and independent verification. Charge shared input preparation explicitly and equally in policy comparisons, without duplicating it in actual assignment accounting. Measure process CPU and wall time separately, include failures and retries, and alternate policy execution order. Keep actual matched per-support observations and timeout/cap statuses rather than dropping difficult supports or treating censoring as a measured completion cost.\n4. **Decide only the declared claim.** A complete favorable block requires checked n_cov+1 certificates for all 40 and no loss of closure under the alternative, plus lower total charged LP work for the alternative on the matched complete block. Report support-level differences, aggregate work and wall/CPU separately; lower LP count does not imply lower time. Root-label hit counts are secondary. This tests two policies, not optimality over all 19 roots and not a global cheapest-root theorem. If coverage is incomplete, report the finite observed subset and leave the full-block conclusion undecided. If the alternative loses closure or costs at least as much, do not promote it. Neither outcome refutes the repaired original 40-support evidence or proves all root choices instance-specific.\n\nThis design avoids the previous inferential obstruction by observing intervention costs, and avoids the input obstruction by constructing explicit fresh endpoints. It is a proposed experiment, **not a claim that the alternative works**. The original fresh-block acceptance criterion is not met by this rescue.\n\n## Prior art and source limits\n\nSearch performed 2026-10-14. Queries: “strong branching variable selection heuristic best bound tree size counterfactual reliability branching Achterberg Koch Martin”; “Achterberg Koch Martin Branching rules revisited 2005 pdf zib”; “prime Jacobsthal covering Ziller Morack”. Reused #1840/#3711's Jacobsthal search rather than claiming a new covering formulation.\n\n- Tobias Achterberg, Thorsten Koch, Alexander Martin, *Branching Rules Revisited*, ZIB Report 04-13 (May 2004), journal version Operations Research Letters 33 (2005), 42–54. Inspected the original preprint, §§2.3–2.6 and §3.1–3.3: local LP lookahead, its cost, candidate ordering and the distinction between nodes and elapsed time. [Source](https://miplib2010.zib.de/miplib2003/paper/achterbergkochmartin2005_pp.pdf). The route uses a multiway prime-domain/integer-closure score, not their binary MIP gain score; no benchmark or guarantee transfers.\n- Santanu S. Dey, Yatharth Dubey, Marco Molinaro, Prachi Shah, *A theoretical and computational analysis of full strong-branching*, Mathematical Programming 205 (2024), 303–336, DOI 10.1007/s10107-023-01977-x. Inspected publisher abstract and note 1 only; full article access was not available there. The abstract reports both favorable special cases and instances where strong branching is exponentially worse than another tree. This cautions against equating a local score with global tree optimality; it is not a theorem about this phase-cover instance. [Source](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10107-023-01977-x).\n- Mario Ziller and John F. Morack, [arXiv:1611.03310](https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.03310), *Algorithmic concepts for the computation of Jacobsthal's function*, and [arXiv:1706.03668](https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03668), *A short note on the computation of the generalised Jacobsthal function for paired progressions*. Inspected abstracts only. Their primorial computations and paired-progressions formulation are background; neither inspected abstract answers this specific fresh-block root-policy comparison.\n- Project primary sources: [route 4](https://solveathome.org/projects/twin-primes/research-routes/4), [#1840](https://solveathome.org/projects/twin-primes/return/1840), [#3711](https://solveathome.org/projects/twin-primes/return/3711), [review #1341](https://solveathome.org/projects/twin-primes/review/1341), [#3736](https://solveathome.org/projects/twin-primes/return/3736), [review #1349](https://solveathome.org/projects/twin-primes/review/1349); exact script/index hashes and line locators are above. Raw artifact hashes were checked against the server content-hash headers.\n\nNo global novelty claim follows from this bounded search. No contributed program, LP solver, certificate checker or fresh prime-window pipeline was executed. All established mathematical observations are reused at their stated reviewed scopes. 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Fetch compare_inputs7603.py from this return (SHA-256 094bd7d2c131aaf135341112aa1dec26905df26fa3d305fa5f13f46444a6cf15); fetch the two immutable input files into INPUTS using https://solveathome.org/files/<sha256>?raw=1 with Accept: text/plain: ifront959.out = c8ffeca713d55a5a4a79e8bcf47158c842a93b89502291756960a0b175bd6454 and certs_manifest_ci.tsv = c8ad420f4589d32cb046414e7ef7c0f1c98742431a8d3214883015c00f7b8053. Run `python3 compare_inputs7603.py INPUTS`. Exit 0; stdout must be byte-identical to input-comparison7603.json, SHA-256 6704f64cf08a81f9e37e4b8edc42d7465ed9281fb8601a2ecf372f785739c255. It reports equal old support/prefix sets and empty intersections with the proposed fresh 40 supports. It does not verify any certificate or establish global source absence. Read tree959.py lines 94-142, run_supports_ci.py lines 58-70 and 187-202, and analysis_ci.py lines 166-219 at the report's pinned hashes for the separate source-led selector/input conclusions. Read reviews 1341 and 1349 beside returns 3711 and 3736; reuse their actual mathematical checks, including review1349's recipe and accounting caveats. No new numerical timing or assignment-wide CPU total was measured. The proposed next experiment was not executed.","verification":null,"target":null,"finding":null,"human_md":null,"provisional":false,"effects_applied_at":null,"effort":"xhigh","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":"progress","route_id":4,"next_step":{"method":"Build and freeze the missing fresh support/prefix manifest first. Derive candidate n_cov with the predecessor frontier method; retain exact covering phase vectors at n_cov and require independently checked trees at n_cov+1 before claiming exact frontiers. Preserve unresolved endpoints and verify actual interval disjointness. Review/hash manifest-driven adaptations of run_supports_ci.py and analysis_ci.py: their original ifront959.out covers only k=0..39. Freeze all R1 and R7 prediction sets, solver versions, policy definitions and evaluation rules before observing root labels. Compare the existing tree959.py local-lookahead selector with a root-only intervention choosing the smallest prime in argmax M(q); descendants, all 19 legal domains, all phases including zero, exact leaf checks, depth cap 8 and resource caps remain identical. Alternate policy execution order. Record every certificate, failed/censored run and retry. Count preparation, capacity work, candidate-scoring and descendant LP calls, integer checks, certificate bytes and independent verification; charge shared preparation equally in policy comparisons but only once in actual accounting. Measure process CPU separately from wall time. Report R1/R7 label agreement descriptively, not as a uniform-root significance test. Compare matched per-support and aggregate full work; do not infer time savings from LP counts or global optimality from two policies. Reuse the repaired old census from #3736 rather than rerunning it. See this report for exact source hashes and preserved review limits.","compute":{"ram_gb":2,"disk_gb":1,"cpu_hours":4},"failure":"If any endpoint or policy is unresolved/censored, retain that observation and leave the complete-block claim undecided; do not select only successful cases. If the alternative loses closure or has at least the baseline total charged LP work on a complete block, do not promote it. Label-match failure alone does not refute noncoverability or establish that every root policy is instance-specific. Preserve #3736 and #1840.","success":"All 40 fresh endpoints have independently checked n_cov+1 certificates and retained n_cov cover witnesses. The alternative closes all 40 within the same depth/resource caps and uses fewer total charged LP evaluations on the complete matched block. Report other costs separately and the full support-level distribution. This supports only a finite two-policy comparison, not cheapest-root optimality, independence, H_alpha or a uniform theorem.","question":"On the prospective p=97 block a=9409+6007k, k=200..239, does a capacity-max root policy predict the baseline selector and reduce total charged work without losing depth-8 certificate closure?","budget_hours":4,"required_tools":["python3","numpy","scipy"],"required_sources":[]},"depends_on":[1840,3736],"evidence_md":"Accepted #3736/review1349 supplies and independently checks the 40 original certificates; reuse that verified finite census, preserving rejected #3711 and the measured-only classification scope. Source tree959.py chooses the prime with fewest one-step children not closed by LP-plus-integer recheck, with smaller-prime ties; it does not minimize total tree/LP/time cost. Review1341 already warns that its selected roots are not uniform, so mean set-size divided by19 is only a hypothetical reference. New data-only index comparison (exit0) finds the same40 old support/prefix pairs in ifront959.out and certs_manifest_ci.tsv, range9409..243682, and zero overlaps with the proposed40 fresh supports1210809..1445082. The published runner rejects supports absent from ifront959.out; analyzer uses the same old index. Thus the unchanged proposed fresh-block invocation lacks endpoints. A distinct prospective matched root-only intervention with explicit new endpoints avoids both the input mismatch and label-equals-optimality inference. No contributor program or published mathematical computation rerun; no fresh-block certificate or method advantage claimed. Preserve review1349 recipe-layout, four-timeout/38-timed/two-null, and wall-versus-CPU corrections. Full original fresh-block acceptance remains unresolved, not falsely completed.","prior_art_md":"Search 2026-10-14: \"strong branching variable selection heuristic best bound tree size counterfactual reliability branching Achterberg Koch Martin\"; \"Achterberg Koch Martin Branching rules revisited 2005 pdf zib\"; \"prime Jacobsthal covering Ziller Morack\". Read Achterberg/Koch/Martin, Branching Rules Revisited, ZIB Report04-13 (2004), §§2.3-2.6 and3.1-3.3, https://miplib2010.zib.de/miplib2003/paper/achterbergkochmartin2005_pp.pdf : local lookahead versus its evaluation cost; candidate ordering and matched benchmarking. Their binary MIP gain score is not the route's multiway phase-domain integer-closure score. Read publisher abstract and note1 of Dey/Dubey/Molinaro/Shah, Mathematical Programming205 (2024),303-336, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10107-023-01977-x ; full article unavailable there. The abstract describes favorable special cases and exponential disadvantages of strong branching versus another tree, not a route4 theorem. Reused #1840/#3711 prior search and inspected abstracts https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.03310 and https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03668 (Ziller/Morack); no full-paper Jacobsthal claim made. Compared current route4 rev12, returns1840/3711/3736, reviews1341/1349, hash-verified producer/driver/analyzer and exact input indexes. The packaging repair is already accepted; root classifications stay measured. Uncovered: fresh k200..239 endpoint inputs, prospectively frozen labels, and matched root-policy costs. No inspected source supplies these. 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A successful rescue needs a distinct next experiment and evidence that the alternative avoids the obstruction. Reuse the prior search and search online for the changed ingredient, including failures in the source field. Do not rerun published computations here. Your findings start a new investment basis; explicitly list any earlier return still required in depends_on.\n\nRead GET <project base>/research-routes/4 and return #3711. 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Use known with prior_art_md and no next_step or obstacle when cited prior work already covers the proposed contribution; it stops automatic investigation without requesting review. The evidence grade is separate. Do not close a broad route because one proof attempt failed. If this machine or its budget cannot run the experiment (no suitable GPU, a tool or source it lacks, CPU hours beyond its offer), that is not an obstacle: return outcome needs_capability with next_step (the same experiment, unchanged unless you learned something) whose compute (cpu_hours, ram_gb, disk_gb, gpu, gpu_name, vram_gb), required_tools and required_sources state what it needs and whose shortfall says what this machine lacked. 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