AI Pipeline Data Revalidation With Pause-and-Resume Execution

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing AI pipelines face inefficiencies due to the processing of invalid input data, leading to erroneous outputs and unnecessary resource consumption, as traditional approaches lack real-time validation mechanisms.

Innovation Solution

Implementing a real-time data validation mechanism within AI pipelines that monitors input data against predefined models, pauses processing upon detecting anomalies, and retrieves or generates corrective data to resume operations efficiently.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If real-time data validation is implemented in AI pipelines, then data accuracy and reliability are improved, but computational overhead and processing time increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata validityVSAvoidvalidation time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs data validation before the AI model processing step, ensuring that only valid data enters the computational pipeline. This preliminary validation prevents wasted computation on invalid data while maintaining fast processing of valid data paths.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The validation mechanism provides immediate feedback when data is invalid, allowing the system to pause, notify, and correct data before resuming processing. This feedback loop ensures data quality without requiring complete reprocessing of entire datasets.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Manufacturing precision

If validation checks are performed on input data, then erroneous outputs are reduced, but processing speed decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveoutput accuracyVSAvoidprocessing speed
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSSpeed

Solution Approach 1:

The validation logic is extracted as a separate, lightweight check that operates independently from the main AI model processing. This allows validation to be performed without blocking the entire pipeline, maintaining processing speed while ensuring output accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system skips validation steps for data that is already known to be valid through metadata or previous validation, rushing through the validation process efficiently. Only data requiring validation undergoes the full check, reducing overall processing time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #21Skipping (Rushing through)

3Loss of energy

If the AI pipeline stops execution upon detecting invalid data, then resource waste is reduced, but task completion time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecomputational resource consumptionVSAvoidpipeline execution time
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of energyVSDuration of action of moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The pipeline execution is made dynamic rather than rigid - it can pause temporarily when invalid data is detected, retrieve corrected data, and resume from the exact point of interruption. This dynamic behavior reduces resource waste on invalid data paths while minimizing overall execution time through efficient resumption.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary validation before execution begins, so that invalid data is caught early and processing is stopped before computational resources are wasted on guaranteed failures. This preliminary check optimizes both resource consumption and execution time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS20260056770A1Reducing computation time in data revalidation in artificial intelligence operational pipelines
Publication Date: 2026.02.26 THE TORONTO DOMINION BANK
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AI summary

An example operation may include one or more of executing, via a software application, a predictive process on input data via an artificial intelligence (AI) pipeline, wherein the AI pipeline comprises at least one AI model and a model of training data for the at least one AI model, determining that the input data is not valid data based on a comparison of the input data to the model of the training data, pausing execution of the predictive process by the AI pipeline on the input data based on the input data not being valid data, storing an identifier of a location within the AI pipeline at which the execution of the predictive process is paused via the software application, retrieving new input data from a storage of the software application, modifying the input data based on the new input data to generate modified input data, and resuming execution of the predictive process on the modified input data at the location based on the identifier of the location stored in the storage of the software application.