Jamais avenir

Next time, perhaps implement only one of the already existing methods and then the newly proposed idea. If the litmus test is that your new idea outperforms all of the baselines, you can test that already early on. In general, incrementality is key: if you're looking at a task that is going to take you 10 month to realize you need to be aware of the risk you're taking.

In the past ten months, you achieved the following: Validate existing results and implement them in Matlab. Show the quality of an alternate method. To me it seems clear that the only way to prevent this time from being a waste is to publish your work or conclusions. First of all, others who work with Matlab may be able to take your implementations and use them for further research.