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Finding the IV values of SHA-256 given all message blocks

Given all message blocks $$w[i],i \in 0:63$$ and assume that $$n<128$$ (arbitrary) bits $$x_1,x_2,...,x_n$$ of the IV values are unknown (e.g., $$h_7$$ bits are unknown) while other IV values coincide with those in the SHA-256 algorithm. Let $$h_{i}^{j}$$ denotes $$i$$-th hash of $$j$$-th round that is $$(h_{0}^{0},h_{1}^{0},...,h_{7}^{0})\overbrace{\mapsto}^{SHA256}(h_{0}^{1},h_{1}^{1},...,h_{7}^{1})\overbrace{\mapsto}^{SHA256} ...\overbrace{\mapsto}^{SHA256}(h_{0}^{64},h_{1}^{64},...,h_{7}^{64}),$$ and $$(h_{0}^{64},h_{1}^{64},...,h_{7}^{64})$$ depends on $$n$$ unknown IV bits. Now let us take $$n$$ (arbitrary) bits $$y_1,y_2,...,y_n$$ of $$(h_{0}^{64},h_{1}^{64},...,h_{7}^{64})$$ and assign values to them.

Question: Is there a possibility to find $$x_1,x_2,...,x_n$$ giving the assigned values of $$y_1,y_2,...,y_n$$ faster than exhaustive search?

Remark. One can notice that for the fixed $$w$$ the function

$$\operatorname{SHA256}_{w}^{-64}(h_{0}^{64},h_{1}^{64},...,h_{7}^{64}) = (h_{0}^{0},h_{1}^{0},...,h_{7}^{0})$$ can be constructed analytically, so if all the bits of $$(h_{0}^{64},h_{1}^{64},...,h_{7}^{64})$$ are known, it is easy to obtain IV values. However, if only $$n<128$$ bits are assigned it is needed to find $$2^{256-n}$$ preimages in the worst case.