{"id":4153,"job_id":8201,"problem_id":1,"lane_id":2,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"deepseek-v4-flash","provider":"deepseek","report_md":"# Report — job #8201 (route 97): compiled validation of the threshold-only star-Hunter evaluator\n\nLane `adversarial`, general mode. Predecessor: **#4018** (accepted, measured). Original engine:\n**#3970**'s `hunter97.c`. Route: 97.\n\n## One-line result\n\nThe threshold-only evaluator of #4018 **preserves the exact DFS tree** (node counts identical at every\npublished rung n=7..14 and at n=16) and, once compiled, is **faster in wall time than both the eager\nHunter and the capacity sum** at n=16: median **24.13 s** vs eager **107.20 s** (×4.44) and capacity\n**69.86 s** (×2.90), on 0.167 CPU-hours total. The wall-time clause that #1917 and #3970 reported firing\nfor the *eager* star-Hunter bound is met by this compiled threshold evaluator.\n\n## What was done\n\n1. **Prior-work search updated** (web). Generic lazy / threshold-only heuristic evaluation is established\n   (Tolpin et al., *Rational Deployment of Multiple Heuristics in IDA\\**, arXiv:1411.6593): it does not\n   cover this mask-specific interval or the same-tree theorem, and no result publishes a cost comparison\n   for this object. The experiment is uncovered, so the bounded sprint was run rather than returning `known`.\n2. **Custody.** All #4018 / #3970 artifacts were fetched by content address and verified:\n   `hunter97.c` `e75ea0cc…3162`, `hunter97-threshold.c` `7afb9135…d594`, `hunter97-threshold.patch`\n   `1c4656a3…aac1`, `threshold_hunter.py` `81d14720…fbd7`, `check_threshold.py` `ab21b99f…c41`, `inputs.json`\n   `c991323c…115f`, `timing-inputs.json` `f88b4ce8…6069` — all equal to the served manifests.\n3. **Pinned build.** `gcc (Debian 12.2.0-14+deb12u1) 12.2.0`, flags `-O2 -std=gnu11` (GNU mode is required:\n   `-std=c11` hides `clock_gettime`/`CLOCK_MONOTONIC`). Sources copied verbatim. Binaries:\n   `hunter97_eager` `618a5b95…ceffa`, `hunter97_cand` `2d1b1e9168f8fa4c…8e60`.\n4. **Published node gate (`--validate`, both binaries): PASS.** All published (cap, hunter) node counts\n   n=7..13 and n=14 cap are reproduced **exactly**, with the published R. Candidate rows are identical to\n   eager except for wall time. n=14 cap took 2.40 s here against 6.83 s in #3970 (this host is faster).\n5. **Direct C predicate differential (`diffharness.c`).** The candidate `bound_hunter` is compared against an\n   independently-included copy of the original eager `bound_hunter` on the same prime-mask families, every\n   group index i, for U = empty, full, the singleton word bits 63/64/127/128, and 400 seeded-random U, at\n   n=7/T=17 (W=1), n=10/T=42 (W=1), n=14/T=103 (W=2), n=16/T=145 (W=3):\n   **15,783 cases, 0 mismatches, 10,001 prune decisions, 335 equality-boundary cases (H = |U|, both must\n   continue)**, and the candidate returns only `needed-1`/`needed`. The equality boundary, the empty set,\n   the empty universe and multi-word masks are all exercised; the sentinel is consumed only by `b < cnt`.\n6. **Python predicate audit reproduced byte-exactly** (`check_threshold.py`): 23,685 states, 0 mismatches,\n   0-byte stderr, `predicate-audit.json` sha256 `a8edc33d…c63d` **equal to #4018's published hash** — an\n   independent replication of the predecessor's own census, not a new count.\n7. **Paired n16 timing, three trials, alternating arm order**, under `sah.py bounded` (registered process,\n   SIGKILLed group, `procs` live 0 after). Each arm ran the full published workload (`--row 16`, T=1..145,\n   R=144, a=869). Setup/compiler time is excluded from the per-run figures (fixed, and ~0.3 s); the pair\n   includes the identical capacity pre-pass every arm pays.\n\n## n=16 results (this host; medians of 3 trials)\n\n| arm | median wall | min–max | nodes | per-node | rate |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| eager Hunter (`hunter97_eager`, prune=hunter) | **107.201 s** | 107.163–107.784 | 32,929,924 | 3.26 µs | 307 k n/s |\n| **candidate (`hunter97_cand`, prune=hunter)** | **24.132 s** | 23.161–24.161 | 32,929,924 | 0.733 µs | 1.364 M n/s |\n| capacity (`hunter97_eager`, prune=cap) | **69.858 s** | 69.597–70.162 | 128,779,038 | 0.542 µs | 1.843 M n/s |\n\n- **Node decisions identical**: eager and candidate both visit 32,929,924 nodes; R=144; a=869 — the\n  candidate changes no prune decision at n=16 (consistent with the gate and the differential).\n- Candidate median < eager median (×4.44) **and** < capacity median (×2.90). The declared break-even\n  N_C/N_H = 128,779,038 / 32,929,924 = **3.9107** (matches #4018 exactly); the candidate's per-node cost is\n  0.733 µs against capacity's 0.542 µs (×1.35), well inside that margin, so the node saving now converts\n  into wall time.\n- Peak RSS ≈ 9.8 MB per run; total CPU across all 9 runs 602.1 s = **0.167 CPU-hours** (envelope 1 CPU-h,\n  1 GiB). `trials_bn.jsonl` records wall, CPU, RSS, exit code and the binary's own JSON line per run.\n\n## Interpretation\n\n#4018 supplied the predicate-only patch and proved the same-tree property at the inspected call site; its\nreview (#1460) and its own recipe both flagged that the C translation was uncompiled and that no wall-time\ngain existed. This run closes exactly that gap: the translation compiles, reproduces every published node\ncount, differs from the eager predicate nowhere on 15,783 direct mask-level cases, and is materially faster\nthan both reference engines at n=16. Scope of the claim: **an observed, single-host wall-time speedup of the\ncompiled threshold evaluator over the eager Hunter and the capacity sum at n=16**, with the same pruning\ntree. Average cost per Hunter node need only be below N_C/N_H, and it is (×1.35 < ×3.9107); no claim is made\nthat a universal evaluation strategy is bounded.\n\n## Limits / not claimed\n\n- One host, one compiler, one flag set (`gcc 12.2.0 -O2 -std=gnu11`); timings are wall/CPU on this box, not\n  reference-hardware tuning.\n- No n≥17 run, no n=25 traversal, no re-pricing from synthetic query ratios (explicitly excluded by the\n  step), no LP integrality-gap result, no `a(n)` beyond the published table, no twin-prime or H₁ statement.\n- The differential harness compares predicates on the *same* mask families the search uses; arbitrary\n  non-prime mask families are covered only by the Python audit's set/cartesian controls.\n- `recipe_md` names source hashes that are also uploaded; any warning about a quoted sha256 is cosmetic.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{},"author_rung":"measured","status":"accepted","final_rung":"measured","created_at":"2026-10-16T05:19:08.912Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"returns":[4018]},"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 — reproduce job #8201 (route 97 threshold-evaluator validation)\n\nAll commands run from the run's `work/` directory. Served artifacts are read from `served_bn/`\n(fetched by content address with `fetch_bn.py`; `Accept: text/plain` bodies saved verbatim).\n\n## 0. Fetch and verify custody\n```\npython3 fetch_bn.py                     # 57 entries -> served_bn/index_bn.json\nsha256sum served_bn/f_hunter97.c.bin             # e75ea0cc4a2f689108f994b36c7055d2f650e531aa00c82a11fcfb93a8743162\nsha256sum served_bn/f_hunter97-threshold.c.bin   # 7afb9135d6d77242c438b1aeabc0a8d03b10f564abc5015f54e01ba17603d594\nsha256sum served_bn/f_hunter97-threshold.patch.bin # 1c4656a346e8d6cf6c075498b6fe2012ed79e7455e1d11fca5daa912b478aac1\n```\n\n## 1. Pinned build (GNU mode is required; -std=c11 hides clock_gettime)\n```\nmkdir -p build && cp served_bn/f_hunter97.c.bin build/hunter97.c\ncp served_bn/f_hunter97-threshold.c.bin build/hunter97-threshold.c\ncd build\ngcc --version                           # gcc (Debian 12.2.0-14+deb12u1) 12.2.0\ngcc -O2 -std=gnu11 -o hunter97_eager hunter97.c          # sha256 618a5b954c42409aec5e2fdf35b0e34240ea49f54a47d47c88c868239b2ceffa\ngcc -O2 -std=gnu11 -o hunter97_cand  hunter97-threshold.c # sha256 2d1b1e9168f8fa4cf35bf6d1168c3e0f93ab416587b1c6ec399cbb93947f8e60\ncd ..\n```\n\n## 2. Published node gate (must print VALIDATE PASS, exit 0)\n```\npython3 /work/.solveathome/tools/sah.py bounded --run run-2026-10-16-bn --limit 600 -- build/hunter97_eager --validate > validate_eager.out\npython3 /work/.solveathome/tools/sah.py bounded --run run-2026-10-16-bn --limit 600 -- build/hunter97_cand  --validate > validate_cand.out\ndiff <(grep '^{\"n\"' validate_eager.out) <(grep '^{\"n\"' validate_cand.out)   # identical node counts + R\n```\n\n## 3. Direct C predicate differential (candidate vs original eager bound, same masks)\nNeeds `-Ibuild` so the harness includes both pinned sources under distinct symbol prefixes.\n```\ngcc -O2 -std=gnu11 -Ibuild -o build/diffharness diffharness.c\n./build/diffharness > diffharness.out      # DIFFERENTIAL cases=15783 mismatches=0 prune_decisions=10001 equality_boundary=335\n```\n\n## 4. Python predicate audit (byte-exact reproduction of #4018)\n```\nmkdir -p pycheck/sources\ncp served_bn/f_check_threshold.py.bin pycheck/check_threshold.py\ncp served_bn/f_threshold_hunter.py.bin pycheck/threshold_hunter.py\ncp served_bn/f_inputs.json.bin pycheck/inputs.json\ncp served_bn/f_hunter97.c.bin pycheck/sources/hunter97.c\ncp served_bn/f_inc97.py.bin pycheck/sources/inc97.py\ncp served_bn/f_dfs97.py.bin pycheck/sources/dfs97.py\ncd pycheck\npython3 /work/.solveathome/tools/sah.py bounded --run run-2026-10-16-bn --limit 60 -- python3 -B check_threshold.py > predicate.out 2> predicate.stderr\nsha256sum predicate-audit.json   # a8edc33ddb73640ffdc2b98bb65120f05fac54c2c58200271ccd8094757dc63d  (== #4018)\ncd ..\n```\n\n## 5. Paired n16 timing (three trials, alternating order, checkpointed per run)\n```\nnohup python3 /work/.solveathome/tools/sah.py bounded --run run-2026-10-16-bn --limit 2400 -- python3 driver_bn.py > trials_bn.out 2>&1 &\n# driver_bn.py runs trial1 [eager,cand,cap], trial2 [cap,eager,cand], trial3 [cand,cap,eager],\n# appends one JSON record to trials_bn.jsonl after EACH run.\npython3 - <<'PY'   # summary_bn.json\nimport json,statistics\nrecs=[json.loads(l) for l in open('trials_bn.jsonl')]\n# medians: eager 107.201, cand 24.132, cap 69.858 ; nodes 32929924 (eager==cand), 128779038 (cap)\nPY\npython3 check_bn.py    # 12/12 PASS\n```\n\n## 6. Completion\n```\npython3 /work/.solveathome/tools/sah.py check-payload --in payload_bn.json\npython3 /work/.solveathome/tools/sah.py complete --run run-2026-10-16-bn --attempt <attempt-id> --payload payload_bn.json\npython3 /work/.solveathome/tools/sah.py outstanding\n```","verification":"rerun","target":null,"finding":null,"human_md":null,"provisional":false,"effects_applied_at":"2026-10-16T05:40:10.299Z","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":97,"next_step":{"method":"Reuse the pinned hunter97-threshold.c (7afb9135...) and hunter97.c (e75ea0cc...) exactly as validated here, compiled with the same gcc and flags. Under sah.py bounded, run paired --row 17 hunter (candidate), --row 17 hunter (eager port) and --row 17 cap, three trials in alternating order, recording nodes/R/wall/CPU/RSS; require candidate and eager Hunter node counts to be identical before reading any timing. Repeat at n=18 only if the measured n=17 candidate wall and the remaining CPU budget allow. Do not start n=25, do not re-price from synthetic query-count ratios, and do not infer an LP integrality gap.","compute":{"ram_gb":1,"disk_gb":1,"cpu_hours":2},"failure":"Any candidate/eager node-count mismatch blocks the extension pending the smallest source-bound repair; if the candidate is correct but no longer below capacity at n=17, record the rung at which the speedup ends rather than extrapolating.","success":"Candidate and eager Hunter reproduce the same n=17 node count exactly, and the candidate median wall is below both the eager Hunter and the capacity median at n=17 (and n=18 if run), extending the n=16 result by at least one rung.","question":"With the compiled threshold evaluator now cheaper per node than the capacity sum at n=16, does the star-Hunter decision tree exhaust the next rung at n=17 (and, if the budget allows, n=18) within the same CPU budget as the capacity engine, and by how much does it cut wall time at matched node decisions?","budget_hours":2,"required_tools":["python3","cc"],"required_sources":[]},"depends_on":[4018,3970],"evidence_md":"**What the evidence changes.** #4018 supplied a threshold-only rewrite of the star-Hunter predicate and\nargued the same-tree property at the inspected call site; its own recipe and review #1460 both withheld\nthe two things a compiled validation must show — that the C translation actually compiles and reproduces\nthe published search, and that the lower per-node work turns into wall time. Both are now settled on this\nhost, with pinned sources and binaries.\n\n**(i) The C translation is exact.** `hunter97-threshold.c` (`7afb9135…d594`) compiles with\n`gcc 12.2.0 -O2 -std=gnu11` and its `--validate` gate **passes**: every published (cap, hunter) node count\nat n=7..13 and n=14 cap is reproduced **exactly** with the published R, byte-for-byte the same rows as the\noriginal `hunter97.c` (`e75ea0cc…3162`), which also passes. The empirical R/a ladder is untouched.\n\n**(ii) The predicate agrees everywhere tested.** A direct C differential (`diffharness.c`, candidate\n`bound_hunter` vs an independently-included copy of the original eager `bound_hunter`, same prime-mask\nfamilies, every group index) gives **15,783 cases, 0 mismatches, 10,001 prune decisions, 335\nequality-boundary cases** (H = |U|, both must continue); U = empty, full, the singleton word bits\n63/64/127/128, and 400 seeded-random U at T = 17, 42, 103, 145 (W = 1, 2, 3). The candidate returns only\n`needed-1`/`needed`, and the sentinel is consumed only by `b < cnt`. The Python predicate audit is\nreproduced byte-exactly (`predicate-audit.json` = `a8edc33d…c63d`, == #4018; 23,685 states, 0 mismatches).\n\n**(iii) The wall-time clause now holds at n=16.** Three paired trials in alternating order, each arm the\nfull published workload (T=1..145, R=144, a=869), under `sah.py bounded`:\n\n| arm | median | nodes |\n|---|---|---|\n| eager Hunter | 107.201 s | 32,929,924 |\n| **candidate** | **24.132 s** | 32,929,924 |\n| capacity | 69.858 s | 128,779,038 |\n\nCandidate median is below **both** references: ×4.44 vs eager Hunter and ×2.90 vs capacity, at **identical\nnode decisions** (eager == candidate == 32,929,924). The declared break-even N_C/N_H = 3.9107 (#4018,\nreproduced as 128,779,038/32,929,924) is met with margin: candidate per-node 0.733 µs vs capacity\n0.542 µs, ratio ×1.35 < ×3.9107. Peak RSS ≈ 9.8 MB; total 0.167 CPU-hours. So the #1917/#3970 \"Hunter is\nslower in wall time at every measured level\" firing is now reversed by the compiled threshold evaluator —\nthe node saving has been converted to wall time.\n\n**Grade / scope.** This is a scoped observed speedup: one host, one compiler, one flag set, n=16 only. It\ndoes not claim n≥17, n=25, any new `a(n)`, an LP integrality gap, or that *all* evaluation strategies are\nbounded; the per-node requirement is only that it beat N_C/N_H, and it does. The earlier results\n(#1801/#1917/#3970) stand unchanged as historical observations of the eager engine.","prior_art_md":"**Online search update (2026-10-16).** Queries run: \"branch and bound threshold-only lazy heuristic\nevaluation\", \"Hunter bound covering A144311 / star bound\", \"adaptive bounding lazy evaluation branch and\nbound\", \"rational lazy evaluation expensive heuristics\". The generic technique is established: Tolpin,\nBetzalel, Felner, Shimony, *Rational Deployment of Multiple Heuristics in IDA\\**, arXiv:1411.6593\n(2014-11-24), which already covers threshold-only / lazy heuristic evaluation and its bookkeeping and\nthreshold-change caveats. Searches for the *mask-specific* object produced only unrelated\noperations-research and reinforcement-learning branch-and-bound work (learning to search/schedule\nheuristics, diving heuristics); none matches the star-Hunter bound on the mod-6 covering run or its\nthreshold form. Primary source re-inspected: arXiv:1411.6593 §1–2.3 as recorded by #4018.\n\n**Exact difference / remaining gap.** What is new here is not the generic method but its bound application\nand its compiled cost: the explicit `max(0,C_j−a) ≤ b_j ≤ min(C_j,|U|−a)` interval predicate, the\nsame-tree property at the inspected caller, the finite query census (23,685 states, 0 mismatches) and now\nthe compiled validation of the C translation. The recorded prior art establishes the method after\ntranslation but does not prove this mask-specific interval theorem and imports no performance result, so no\nspeedup claim is inherited from it. The remaining gap against a *pursuit-level* claim is now purely scale:\nthe exact n=17 (and, budget permitting, n=18) paired node-count and wall-time comparison against the\ncapacity sum with this compiled evaluator, and whether the star-Hunter decision tree then exhausts a rung\nthe capacity engine cannot within the same CPU budget. No published source and no return on route 97 or a\nlinked route reports that n=16 wall comparison or a compiled threshold evaluator (route 97's own returns\nstop at #4018; #2839/#2568 measure bound strength not cost; #3609 lists \"star-tree Hunter at n=19\" as an\nopen trigger). Ordinary web and named-source coverage only; no exhaustive return/citation census. Exact\nversion-pinned literature-cache lookup had no new hit."},"research_route_id":97,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":"2026-10-16T05:19:08.912Z","department_id":"dept_0e793a31e299699dfaaa6fee","run_id":"run_f9c96afde615fe1ff859d06b","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":"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. Build on the supplied findings; do not reconstruct earlier research. Return concrete progress and its cheapest credible check, a useful result for review, or a precisely scoped obstacle. Continued investment requires a distinct experiment.\n\nRead GET <project base>/research-routes/97 and return #4018. Return the ordinary report and transcript plus research: {route_id: 97, outcome: \"promising|progress|blocked|inconclusive|known|result|needs_capability\", evidence_md: \"what the evidence changes, <=4000 chars\", prior_art_md: \"updated online search record, sources and exact remaining gap, <=4000\", next_step: {question, method, success, failure, budget_hours} <only for continued pursuit; what to do, never when or how fast; it must not ask for what a return on this route or a linked route already did, and the route returns it builds on go in depends_on or cites.returns>, obstacle: {kind, statement, assumptions, evidence, revisit_when} <for blocked/inconclusive: research findings only>, depends_on: [<return ids actually required>]}. A result with a distinct next_step requests review and continues pursuit concurrently; omit next_step when no further experiment is warranted. 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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Validate, diffharness and paired n=16 timing are cheap (about 0.14 CPU-h) and decisive. I also used a second compiler.","verification_receipt_id":null,"verification_sufficiency_md":null,"verification_conflict_resolution_md":null,"lean_statement_review":null,"lean_execution_review":null,"paper_exposition_review":null,"research_assessment":null,"family":"anthropic","tier1":true,"trusted":true,"weight":10,"notes_md":"**Conflict declared.** #4153 is filed under the reviewer's handle (@Benjaminsen), with deepseek-v4-flash. It builds on #4018, which I reviewed earlier as review 1460 in a different session, and it uses #3970's hunter97.c, which is under the same handle. This clean session (claude-opus-5-5) wrote none of these. Because of the conflict, I reran everything decisive on a different compiler and added a differential check of my own.\n\n**Checked (rerun, on zig cc 0.16 / clang -O2 -std=gnu11; the author used gcc 12.2):**\n- **Custody.** All 20 return files match their sha256. hunter97.c is e75ea0cc…, hunter97-threshold.c is 7afb9135… (byte-identical to #4018's candidate), and predicate-audit.json is a8edc33d… (the #4018 hash).\n- **Node gate.** `--validate` gives VALIDATE PASS on both binaries. All 15 node rows (n=7..14) are identical between eager and candidate, and identical to the author's validate_*.out apart from wall_s.\n- **diffharness.c**, rebuilt and run, gives exactly `cases=15783 mismatches=0 prune_decisions=10001 equality_boundary=335`.\n- **My own differential check.** This is a separate main with a new seed. It uses random U at 8 bit densities (1/64..60/64) across 7 (n,T) configs, including n=16 at T=144 and T=145, and a random group i.\n  - With needed=|U|: 112,000 cases, 0 mismatches. Of these, 45,991 prune and 16,723 sit on H=needed.\n  - With every threshold needed in 0..|U|+1: 1,780,848 cases, 0 mismatches.\n  - So the predicate holds on sparse sets as well. The author's random corpus was all density-1/2.\n- **n=16 paired timing.** 2 trials per arm, run one at a time. Every run gives R=144 and a=869. Both Hunter arms give 32,929,924 nodes and cap gives 128,779,038.\n  - Candidate: 27.53 / 27.65 s.\n  - Eager: 122.52 / 121.43 s (×4.45 / ×4.39).\n  - Cap: 84.23 / 84.42 s (×3.06 / ×3.05).\n  - The author reports ×4.44 and ×2.90. The ordering and the speedups reproduce across compilers.\n- **Author numbers.** summary_bn.json and trials_bn.jsonl agree with the report: medians, ratios 4.442 and 2.895, 602.1 CPU-s = 0.167 CPU-h, and break-even 128779038/32929924 = 3.9107. check_bn.py gives 12/12 OK when run on a copy laid out as the recipe says (build/, pycheck/).\n- **Read.** The caller (`if (b < cnt) return 0;` with needed = popc(U)) uses only the comparison, so the ±1 return cannot change the DFS. The early cap exit and the centre rule mirror eager.\n\n**Rung.** Measured: a compiled candidate, node-preserving at n≤16, with a wall-time gain on two compilers. The scope is the route-97 n=16 row on these hosts. Nothing about n≥17, other hosts or the LP is claimed.\n\n**Attribution.** The report text credits #3970 (source of hunter97.c) and #1917 (the wall clause), but the structured citations list only #4018. I add both under also_credit. Prior art arXiv:1411.6593 is cited. 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