Industry R&D is loud on lossless weight compression for inference memory — and still measures file codecs with mixed exactness. This page is the honest product map: same residual hierarchy, second buyer (inference ops), zero secret process soup.
Two lanes
Shared: domain-honest · exact RT · float/diagnostic labeled only · private engines stay secret
Public matrix
| Dimension | Files | Weights |
|---|---|---|
| Buyer question | Smaller than gzip/zstd/brotli on my domain? | Pack weights/shards without silent corruption? |
| Win metric | Size + speed + exact RT | Transfer/memory + exact RT on declared dtype |
| Field baseline | gzip-9 · brotli-11 · zstd-3/19 | Same GP on raw dumps; research weight codecs = baseline only |
| Public proof today | ZRW zeros×10k → 8 B · zeros×1M → 10 B · me 0 | Positioning matrix only — no public weight scoreboard yet |
| Does not claim | Universal win on random high-entropy bytes | Beating every neural weight scheme; open engines |
| SKU / door | Suite · ZRW gates · CodEX · /bench | residual-governance · consulting residual report · Access |
| Float / lossy | Diagnostic-labeled only | Quant/FP diagnostic-labeled only |
Seat tags
ZRW · struct int OmniWave · general candidate CodEX · law book residual-governance · policy industry pack · field baseline
Competitive field (honest)
| Class | Exact RT? | CodEX treatment |
|---|---|---|
| Classical GP (gzip/brotli/zstd) | Yes | Field baseline only |
| Structured int (ZRW class) | Required | Domain seat · flagship proofs |
| Neural lossless research | Varies | Research baseline · not product path |
| Weight / exponent-redundancy papers | Claimed on path | Field signal for weights buyer |
| OmniWave (SPL Codec) | Lab exact RT for claims | General candidate · domain-honest tables |
residual-governance
Commercial policy pack — not a secret codec download. Labels lossless vs diagnostic, requires exact RT on declared domain, demotes industry pack to baseline, and gives agent/inference ops language for “restore equals source.”
Stripe residual-governance SKU · no new invented economics
One-sentence pitch
Same residual law as files: pack only what remains, prove exact restore — for corpora and for agent weight artifacts ops cannot afford to “almost” recover.
Frozen next (Host)
- One public-safe synthetic int-tensor fixture (not production weights)
- One-row exact RT vs gzip/zstd field baseline in CodEX notes
- Still no private coefficients