Founder

Gregory Villines

Geometric information theory, applied topology, and edge intelligence — backed by a granted U.S. patent and a public body of research on SSRN.

The Practice

Structure as the instrument.

The through-line of the work is simple to state and hard to do: treat structure as the instrument. Most hard problems are not short of data — they are short of the right geometry to see the data in. Find that geometry and the answer tends to become obvious.

That conviction runs from a signals-intelligence lineage through a granted patent and into a working line of compression and inference systems.

Signals Lineage

From the signal to the structure.

Trained as a USAF signals-intelligence specialist, then working as an NSA network analyst — years spent pulling structure out of noisy, adversarial channels.

That discipline — assume the signal is hidden, assume the measurement is contested, and recover the structure anyway — is the same one applied today to markets, language models, and encryption.

Research Focus

Seven lines of inquiry.

F·01

Geometric Information Theory

Treating information as a structured object with shape, curvature, and topology — not just a count of bits.

F·02

Topological Data Analysis

Persistent homology and related tools to detect structure that survives noise and scale.

F·03

Labor-Market Econometrics

Measurement-integrity work on employment, credentialing, and workforce policy.

F·04

Compression & Tokenization

Learned tokenization and representation that pushes past conventional byte-pair limits.

F·05

LLM Inference Efficiency

KV-cache quantization and inference architecture for cheaper intelligence at scale.

F·06

Edge AI & IoT

Carrying capable models onto constrained devices at the edge of the network.

F·07

Encryption Architecture

Applied cryptographic design, anchored by a granted U.S. patent.

Applied Systems

Research that ships.

S·01

Glyph · Tokenization

A learned tokenization system compressing text past conventional byte-pair encoders — ≈ 9.1 characters per token.

S·02

Quark · Embedding

A compact embedding scheme for dense semantic representation under tight memory budgets.

S·03

nd‑kv‑quant · Open Source

Apache 2.0 KV-cache quantization via norm–direction decomposition — ≈ 4× compression near full precision, benchmarked on Qwen, Llama, and Mistral.

S·04

Edge-AI Prototype

A working prototype carrying inference onto constrained edge hardware.

S·05

Genesis · Cognitive Architecture

An experimental architecture for structured reasoning and memory.

FIG. 1 — Volumetric Helix Encryption · U.S. Patent No. 12,039,405 B1

Patent

U.S. Patent No. 12,039,405 B1 — Volumetric Helix Encryption (granted).

Open Source

nd‑kv‑quant, Apache 2.0 — benchmarked on Qwen, Llama, and Mistral.

Record

Public research body on SSRN spanning topology, econometrics, and energy systems.

Background

USAF signals intelligence; NSA network analysis.

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