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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