How do you privately validate a novel compression architecture without burning patent rights?
I’m looking for advice from people with serious experience in data compression, information theory, technical diligence, or IP strategy.
I started building a deterministic CPU-based AI architecture a few years ago because mainstream probabilistic models did not give me the guarantees I needed and were too GPU-dependent for my goals. During development, it became clear that part of the architecture had compression implications. That led me into deeper research around information theory, Kolmogorov complexity, the pigeonhole principle, and compression benchmarks.
I believe I have developed a novel compression-related architecture that is not a conventional entropy encoder and not part of the usual LZ/Huffman/arithmetic/ANS/PPM/BWT family. I am intentionally not describing the mechanism, transformation structure, or internal method publicly because I am still working through patent protection and international novelty risk.
The problem is validation.
A public prize like the Hutter Prize would require source disclosure, but the source would expose the core mechanism. That same mechanism is also foundational to a broader deterministic AI system I am building. I do not want to create public prior art against myself or hand the method to larger companies before the IP position is protected.
I am looking for guidance on the safest credible path to private validation.
Specifically:
- How can a novel compression claim be evaluated privately without public source release?
- Are there reputable researchers, labs, attorneys, or technical diligence groups that handle this kind of review under NDA?
- Are there alternatives to public-code prizes for validating compression systems?
- What should I avoid saying publicly before patents are filed?
- Are there funding paths specifically for patent protection and private hard-tech validation?
I understand that extraordinary compression claims are usually met with skepticism, and rightly so. I am not asking anyone to accept the claim from a post. I am asking how to get the work reviewed and protected without accidentally disclosing the core invention.
The broader project includes deterministic AI and low-cost information infrastructure, but the immediate proof surface is compression because compression is measurable.
Any serious guidance on IP-safe validation paths would be appreciated.