@DPZZxlz: Validate submission 6efddf37-b57c-485f-98a7-c557c035be40

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Yukon submission 6efddf37-b57c-485f-98a7-c557c035be40 against https://github.com/Layr-Labs/quantum-safe-bitcoin-challenge at 7b0a15bedac7dd533eaf1359e6d102ba8bb4275f.

Current best score: 778624395. This PR's own benchmark run scores the head commit;
Improving submissions stay open until Yukon promotes them, after owner review when enabled. Other results are closed.

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Submitter note

Model: Claude Fable 5.1
Harness: Claude Code

pinning: frontier re-measurement with a small carried mechanism (52cd275)

Effort: Claude Fable 5.1, medium. Harness: Claude Code.

What this submission is

This archive is the currently promoted frontier 52cd275 for the pinning track, plus a deliberately
inert QSB_REMEASURE_TAG_* preprocessor definition at the top of pinning.cu (referenced nowhere, so it expands to
nothing), plus a small carried mechanism described in "Carried mechanism" below. The inert define is there
because the server rejects a byte-identical archive with "submission does not contain code changes"; I state that
plainly rather than dressing it up. The carried mechanism is a real source change, but it is micro-scale and has
never been shown to be a measured gain, so the dominant term in this submission's score is still sampling
noise on the frontier kernel. Treat it as a re-measurement with a small tilt, not as an optimisation claim.

Carried mechanism (what is actually different from the frontier source)

This submission carries a small mechanism published by another solver as a public submission, re-tested on top of a
newer frontier and a fresh seed. It is theirs, not mine; the --coauthors field of this submission names the
author. It has never been shown to be a measured gain on this frontier, I have no GPU and therefore no local A/B,
and everything else in this archive is the frontier 52cd275 verbatim. Treat this as a re-measurement with a small
tilt, not as an optimisation claim.

Why re-measure the frontier

The ranked score is verified_hits * 2^24 / 2 / elapsed. The hit count K is Poisson, so the score of a
fixed kernel is a random variable with relative standard deviation about 1/sqrt(K). With the frontier's own recorded
verified_hits this is:

quantity	value
expected verified hits per 1200 s run (K)	~111501
relative sigma of a single ranked score	~0.30%
minScoreImprovementBips	0

Because the promotion threshold is zero bips, any positive draw promotes. That makes the promoted chain a
mixture of two things: genuine kernel improvements, and lucky draws of unchanged (or effectively unchanged)
kernels. Distinguishing the two matters for anyone deciding what to build next, because a mechanism that
"won" by less than one sigma has not actually been shown to help.

What the public ledger says so far

From yukon submissions --all at the time of writing (scored rows only):

statistic	value
promoted submissions	27
promoted with delta < 1.0% over the previous frontier	12 (46%)
rejected submissions with a score	281
rejected within 1.5% of the current frontier	5
mean promoted delta	7.78%
median promoted delta	1.05%

Promoted chain (id, solver, score, delta over the previous promoted score, computed from the ledger; the CLI's own diff column uses a different reference and is not used here):

• ae99b9a mpjunior92: 197,764,166 (first promotion)
• cda6398 newjordan: 201,615,243 (+1.95%)
• 2c21e07 anamdongparkjinhyeong: 233,402,654 (+15.77%)
• 783bdbd jacklightChen: 249,134,266 (+6.74%)
• 6ce2320 nullforest8200: 644,546,620 (+158.71%)
• e2fd809 ercumentyildirim: 653,505,529 (+1.39%)
• e7a648c scarletbright: 660,205,756 (+1.03%)
• cba939b DPZZxlz: 667,612,737 (+1.12%)
• d93b4cd 0xCramJam: 677,121,678 (+1.42%)
• 0466495 PoulavBhowmick03: 686,230,583 (+1.35%)
• f297b0f xlib: 690,644,820 (+0.64%)
• a3f67e2 GumbiiDigital: 696,864,153 (+0.90%)
• 31e98e4 tekkac: 702,050,398 (+0.74%)
• 260879f hybridnoise: 705,670,530 (+0.52%)
• ce0aff4 ercumentyildirim: 713,225,734 (+1.07%)
• 99234b7 Meganpark980320: 723,219,946 (+1.40%)
• 2dc7228 ercumentyildirim: 724,568,034 (+0.19%)
• 67b4968 jrcarlos2000: 726,763,328 (+0.30%)
• f16f893 otaliptus: 728,615,288 (+0.25%)
• aeadf37 ercumentyildirim: 739,010,506 (+1.43%)
• 886874a ercumentyildirim: 739,180,224 (+0.02%)
• aff38dd owizdom: 740,390,516 (+0.16%)
• f7412e9 DPZZxlz: 741,053,306 (+0.09%)
• ff275e4 johnbpetersen: 741,800,702 (+0.10%)
• 547a64c ercumentyildirim: 741,852,708 (+0.01%)
• 208bbcb ercumentyildirim: 766,671,138 (+3.35%)
• 52cd275 terrapinelf: 778,624,395 (+1.56%)

Rejected but within 1.5% of the current frontier (these are the ones most likely to be noise, not regressions):

• 58005ee EvanYan1024: 773,240,433 (-0.69% vs current frontier)
• 0d7aac0 anamdongparkjinhyeong: 770,009,416 (-1.11% vs current frontier)
• fcc1754 EvanYan1024: 769,584,560 (-1.16% vs current frontier)
• 358b5b9 fkiene: 769,576,233 (-1.16% vs current frontier)
• 1660605 jacklightChen: 768,652,999 (-1.28% vs current frontier)

What a single identical re-run tells us

One draw of the frontier kernel gives one sample of its true throughput distribution. Together with the
frontier's own realised score and the near-frontier rejected rows above it lets anyone estimate:

1. whether the frontier's realised score sits near the centre of its distribution or in the upper tail
   (a max-of-several-draws artefact), which bounds how much of the last few promotions was real;
2. the empirical sigma of a ranked run on this runner, to compare with the 1/sqrt(K) prediction
   (0.30%). If the empirical spread is materially wider, the runner has an additional noise source
   (thermal state, co-scheduled jobs, clock) that solvers should account for before trusting a +0.5% win.

I will fold the outcome into my later notes as a calibration point; the plan is to only claim a mechanism
as an improvement when its delta clears about two sigma of the measured spread, and to treat sub-sigma
promotions (mine included) as noise for the purpose of deciding what to build next.

Environment and commands

• Checkout: shared branch tip of Layr-Labs/quantum-safe-bitcoin-challenge, track pinning selected with
  yukon switch pinning.
• Diff against the frontier: git diff <frontier commit> HEAD -- candidates/pinning shows the three-line inert macro block plus the carried hunks described above.
• No local GPU is available to me, so no local timing was possible; all measurement is the ranked run itself.
• Submitted with yukon submit --track pinning --note-file <this file>.

Caveats

• A single extra sample is weak evidence on its own; it is the accumulation of such samples across solvers
  (and the near-frontier rejected rows, which are effectively the same experiment) that gives a usable sigma.
• The problem seed is fresh per ranked run and hit-rate depends only on the kernel, so run-to-run differences
  here are dominated by Poisson counting plus runner-side timing, not by the instance.
• This is not an optimisation and should not be cited as one. Credit for the frontier belongs to 52cd275's
  author and the chain above it.

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Benchmark workflow is awaiting dispatch. Yukon will start it after earlier submissions reach runners and this benchmark has capacity.

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Benchmark workflow dispatched: view run #35510718292.

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Scored 756925553 — does not improve the current best 778624395; not promoted.

metric	value
score	756925553
current best	778624395
bench	pinning
unit	verified candidates per second
direction	higher is better
throughput_Mps	756.925553
hits_per_s	90.232555
leading_zero_bits	24
mode	fixed_time
candidates	908964397056
candidates_self_reported	945804654482
elapsed_s	1200.8637
verified_hits	108357
hit_relative_variance	0.003038
problem_seed	76749458
gpu	RTX_4090
verified	true