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Experience

The technical ground beneath our practices.

These are representative areas in which Covalent Forge brings hands-on knowledge. Engagements are scoped around the client’s operating problem or the collaborator’s research question.

01

Model serving and infrastructure

Operating local and private models with attention to throughput, memory, reliability, and maintainable interfaces.

  • vLLM, llama.cpp, and SGLang
  • Quantization and batching
  • Inference APIs and observability
  • Desktop, workstation, and clustered systems
02

Research pipelines and evaluation

Making experiments inspectable and repeatable, particularly when published baselines or standard tooling are incomplete.

  • MLflow pipelines
  • Benchmark reproduction
  • Ablations and custom evaluations
  • Data preparation and augmentation
03

Custom training systems

Implementing model and performance work that falls outside straightforward framework configuration.

  • PyTorch cross-attention modules
  • Custom losses and training loops
  • Parameter-efficient fine-tuning
  • CUDA kernel development
04

Institutional compute

Helping research code move from an individual environment to shared, scheduled, and accelerated infrastructure.

  • SLURM authoring and debugging
  • H200, GH200, and Blackwell
  • Resource and performance analysis
  • Reproducible environment handoff

Example domain

Protein language model research

Work in antibody and protein modeling illustrates how we collaborate: start with the scientific objective, build the training and evaluation machinery it requires, and make interpretation part of the result.

Training

PEFT, domain adaptation, custom objectives, and custom training implementations.

Interpretation

t-SNE, UMAP, attention heat maps, and gradient-weighted attention rollout.

Applications

Antibody and antigen modeling, protein–protein interaction, and related model evaluation.

Evidence and attribution

Share the work responsibly.

Client and academic work is documented for the people who need to operate or assess it. Public case notes, repositories, and publication links are shared when permissions and collaboration terms allow.

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