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Hi! I wanted to get Cascadia running on my Apple silicon machine (M3 Max, via PyTorch's MPS backend) and hit a few bugs along the way, mostly from newer versions of pyteomics, PyTorch, and the dependency pins. I worked through them together with Claude, and while we were at it we profiled the inference loop and found redundant work that was easy to cache away. The decoded sequences are unchanged and the benchmarks on the demo data look nice, so I thought this might be useful upstream. Happy to split it up, drop parts, or adjust anything. I used my MacBook for benchmarking and Google Colab to test the GPU.

Most of the code in this PR was written by Claude with me steering, reviewing, and running the checks. I've tried to describe the verification we did below so you can judge for yourself.

Getting it to run again

With a fresh pip install today, main fails before inference starts. Fixes:

  • Dependency pins. lightning<2.1 together with pytorch-lightning<2.0, numpy<2.0, and a runtime setuptools<70 pin forced pip onto packages without wheels for current Python. On Google Colab it tried to compile numpy and pydantic-core from source and failed; I believe this is the "second torch issue" from Fix dependency conflicts, add psims, CI workflow, and end-to-end test #18. Now lightning>=2.0,<3 only (its wheel also provides the pytorch_lightning mirror), code imports lightning.pytorch directly, numpy 2 is allowed, no setuptools pin, Python ≥ 3.10 (the type hints already required it).
  • pyteomics 5 needs the psims package to parse mzML; added as a dependency.
  • pyteomics 5 returns [] instead of None for absent terminal modifications. Peptide.split turned that into a spurious [+0.000000]- token, so the MassIVE-KB vocabulary grew from 28 to 30 tokens and the published checkpoints couldn't be loaded anymore (size mismatch for decoder.aa_encoder.weight).
  • PyTorch ≥ 2.6 defaults to weights_only=True in torch.load, which rejects the numpy scalars in the checkpoints' optimizer state. Weights are now loaded explicitly.
  • write_results wasn't imported in cascadia.py, and -p/--modifications read ptms.json instead of the given path.
  • macOS specifics: the TransformerEncoder nested-tensor fast path uses an op that isn't implemented for MPS (now disabled; it didn't help here anyway), and spawned DataLoader workers can't pickle the tokenizer's numba dicts, so data loading runs in-process on macOS and Windows. Device selection is CUDA → MPS → CPU, with a -d/--device override.

I think this fixes #5 (Mac crash at prediction) and the install part of #8 (Colab). The docs now include a short Colab section.

Inference speedups

Profiling showed that predict_step re-ran the full spectrum encoder at every one of the 32 greedy decoding steps, and the decoder re-processed the whole prefix each step (including the cross-attention projections of all peaks). Changes:

  • The encoder runs once per batch, and only once per unique spectrum: the augmented spectra for the different candidate charge states have identical peaks, and the charge only enters the decoder.
  • A new PeptideTransformerDecoder.greedy_decode with KV caching: self-attention keys/values and the memory projections are cached, only the newest token is processed each step, and decoding stops early once every sequence in the batch has emitted the stop token. It reuses the trained weights and matches nn.TransformerDecoder step for step.
  • Tensors are moved to the CPU before detokenizing (iterating a GPU tensor element-wise forced a sync per token).
  • write_asf formats each peak list once instead of once per charge (byte-identical output); AsfParser bulk-parses peak blocks with numpy (identical HDF5 index).
  • Default inference batch size raised to 128, since GPUs are dispatch-bound at 32. Per-phase timings are printed at the end.

Benchmark on the demo file with cascadia.ckpt, alternating old/new implementations on the same batches with the same weights (two rounds each), on an M3 Max. Caveat: one small file, one machine; the exact factors will shift with peaks per spectrum and hardware.

Stage Unit Old New Speedup
Augmentation (mzML → .asf), CPU s 3.68 2.33 1.6x
.asf parsing (after one-time numba JIT), CPU s 0.77 0.52 1.5x
Inference, CPU, batch 32 ms/spectrum 197.8 10.3 19.3x
Inference, CPU, old bs 32 vs new bs 128 ms/spectrum 197.8 9.5 20.8x
– spectrum encoder, CPU ms/spectrum 183.5 1.6 117x
– peptide decoder, CPU ms/spectrum 64.5 10.7 6.0x
Inference, MPS, batch 32 ms/spectrum 82.9 8.6 9.6x
Inference, MPS, old bs 32 vs new bs 128 ms/spectrum 82.9 3.7 22.6x
– spectrum encoder, MPS ms/spectrum 90.5 0.7 137x
– peptide decoder, MPS ms/spectrum 40.1 12.4 3.2x

("Old on MPS" is the old decoding loop with only the nested-tensor flag disabled, since the original crashed on MPS.)

End-to-end cascadia sequence on the demo file with the new code:

Environment Python / torch Total of which inference (incl. model load)
M3 Max, MPS 3.10 / 2.12 27 s 15 s
M3 Max, CPU 3.10 / 2.12 50 s 39 s
Google Colab T4, CUDA 3.13 / 2.11+cu128 55 s 27 s
Google Colab, CPU (2 cores) 3.13 / 2.11 453 s 425 s

This is of course on the test dataset so likely not as drastic on full files.

Verification

  • Old vs new predict_step on all 120 batches of the demo set: 0 sequence mismatches.
  • New KV-cached decoder vs stock nn.TransformerDecoder, step by step: 0 token mismatches over 3648 tokens, probabilities agree to ~1e-5.
  • New .asf writer output is byte-identical to the old one; the new parser produces an identical HDF5 index (all fields).
  • The same 216 predictions, with identical scan/charge/sequence columns, from Mac MPS, Mac CPU, Colab CUDA, and Colab CPU, across Python 3.10/3.12/3.13, torch 2.11/2.12/2.14, Lightning 2.0.9/2.6.5, numpy 1.26/2.5. Scores agree within 3e-6 across devices.

One behavior change I'd like your opinion on

The old peptide score summed per-token log-confidences over len(peptide_string) + 1 entries. For unmodified peptides that's the token count plus the stop token, but for modified peptides (e.g. SVEEYANC[Carbamidomethyl]HLAR: 12 tokens, 29 characters) it also multiplied in the confidences of junk tokens decoded after the stop token, which lowered their scores (0.87 → 0.999 in one example). The new code sums over the decoded tokens up to and including the stop token. Sequences are unchanged, but modified peptides now score higher and a few more of them pass the default 0.8 threshold. If you'd rather keep the original scoring for comparability with the paper, that's a small change and I'm happy to do it.

Housekeeping

  • Added .gitignore and removed the tracked __pycache__/*.pyc files.
  • Docs updated: macOS supported, Colab instructions, new defaults, --device.

Not covered

  • Training was not run (no .asf training data at hand). Training code paths are untouched apart from using the same checkpoint loader for fine-tuning and in-process data loading on macOS/Windows.
  • Windows is untested.
  • write_results still fetches Unimod over the network on every run (4 to 12 s, and the cause of http://www.unimod.org/xml/unimod_tables.xml empty or not found #6 and issue fetching unimod_tables.xml #12 behind firewalls); numba JIT inside spectrum_utils costs ~2.5 s per process. Both would be easy follow-ups.

Thanks for the tool, and for putting the checkpoints and demo data out there. That made this very easy to test.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added faster peptide prediction with optimized greedy decoding.
    • Added automatic device selection for NVIDIA GPUs, Apple silicon, and CPU, plus a manual device option.
    • Increased the default inference batch size to 128.
    • Added Google Colab setup and demo instructions.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved parsing of spectra and peptide terminal modifications.
    • Fixed compatibility issues affecting Apple silicon and newer package versions.
  • Documentation

    • Updated supported platforms, installation requirements, performance expectations, and inference options.

straussmaximilian and others added 9 commits September 3, 2026 14:39
Compiled bytecode was committed to the repository and showed up as
modified on every run. Ignore it along with virtualenvs, downloaded
data, and the temporary directories cascadia creates while running.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
pyteomics >= 5 requires the psims package to parse mzML, so declare it
as a dependency. It also returns an empty list instead of None for
absent terminal modifications, which Peptide.split turned into spurious
"[+0.000000]-" tokens. That inflated the MassIVE-KB vocabulary from 28
to 30 tokens and made the published checkpoints impossible to load.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
torch.nn.TransformerEncoder's sparsity fast path calls
_nested_tensor_from_mask_left_aligned, which is not implemented for
Apple MPS and crashes inference there. Spectra within a batch have
similar lengths, so the fast path bought nothing anyway.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
predict_step re-ran the full spectrum encoder at every one of the 32
greedy decoding steps, and the decoder re-processed the whole prefix
(including the cross-attention projections of all peaks) each step.

Now the encoder runs once per batch, and only once per unique spectrum,
since the augmented spectra for the candidate charge states share
identical peaks and the charge only enters the decoder. Decoding uses a
new PeptideTransformerDecoder.greedy_decode that caches self-attention
keys/values and the memory projections, processes only the newest
token per step, and stops once every sequence has emitted a stop token.
It reuses the trained weights and matches nn.TransformerDecoder step
for step (0 token mismatches over the demo set, probabilities ~1e-5).

Two smaller fixes: tensors are moved to the CPU before detokenizing
(iterating a GPU tensor element-wise forced a device sync per token),
and the peptide score now sums the log-confidences of the decoded
tokens up to and including the stop token. Previously the slice length
was the character count of the peptide string, so modified peptides
such as C[Carbamidomethyl] included junk tokens decoded after the stop
token and were scored too low. Decoded sequences are unchanged.

On the demo file: 198 -> 10 ms per spectrum on CPU, 83 -> 3.7 ms on MPS.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
write_asf formatted the identical peak list once per candidate charge
state; format it once and reuse it (output is byte-identical).

AsfParser.read converted every peak value with Python float(); parse
each BEGIN/END IONS block's peak rows with numpy in one go, falling
back to the row-by-row filter for irregular blocks. The resulting HDF5
index is identical. CHARGE values with more than one digit are now
read correctly.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Select the accelerator as CUDA, then MPS, then CPU, with a new
  -d/--device option to override.
- Load checkpoints with torch.load(weights_only=False): the checkpoints
  contain numpy scalars that PyTorch >= 2.6 refuses by default.
- Import write_results, which was never imported in this module, and
  read the PTM file from the path given with -p instead of 'ptms.json'.
- Use in-process data loading on macOS, where spawned DataLoader workers
  cannot pickle the tokenizer's numba dictionaries.
- Raise the default inference batch size to 128; MPS is dispatch-bound
  below that (demo: 52 s at 32 vs 14 s at 128).
- Print per-phase timings at the end of `cascadia sequence`.
- Update the docs: macOS is supported, new defaults.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The unanchored pattern also matched cascadia/depthcharge/data.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Windows, like macOS, starts DataLoader workers with spawn, so the
dataset (and the tokenizer's unpicklable numba dictionaries) would have
to be pickled. Only Linux forks the workers.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The old pins (lightning<2.1 together with pytorch-lightning<2.0,
numpy<2.0, and a runtime setuptools<70 pin) forced pip onto packages
without wheels for recent Python versions. On Google Colab the install
ended up compiling numpy and pydantic-core from source and failed.

Depend on lightning 2.x only (its wheel provides both lightning.pytorch
and the pytorch_lightning mirror), import lightning.pytorch directly,
allow numpy 2, drop the setuptools pin, and require Python >= 3.10,
which the codebase already needs for its type hints.

Verified end to end on the demo file with identical predictions in
fresh environments with Python 3.12 (MPS) and 3.13 (CPU) on torch 2.14,
Lightning 2.6, numpy 2.5, and in the existing Python 3.10 environment
with Lightning 2.0.9 and numpy 1.26.

Also document how to run the demo on Google Colab.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The PR adds cross-platform device support, refactors ASF parsing, normalizes peptide modifications, introduces cached greedy decoding, updates prediction integration, and refreshes dependencies and documentation.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Runtime and device wiring
.gitignore, pyproject.toml, cascadia/cascadia.py, docs/source/getting_started.md, docs/source/usage.md
Runtime dependencies, device selection, tokenizer and model loading, DataLoader settings, CLI options, and platform documentation are updated.
Spectrum and peptide input processing
cascadia/augment.py, cascadia/depthcharge/data/parsers.py, cascadia/depthcharge/primitives.py
ASF parsing is split into block helpers, peak rows support fallback parsing, terminal modifications normalize empty values, and shared ASF peak lines are reused.
Cached greedy decoding
cascadia/depthcharge/transformers/peptides.py
PeptideTransformerDecoder.greedy_decode performs incremental decoding with cached attention values, confidence outputs, and stop-token handling.
Prediction integration and MPS compatibility
cascadia/depthcharge/transformers/spectra.py, cascadia/model.py
Prediction uses greedy decoding, encodes duplicate spectra once, calculates log confidences, and disables nested tensors for Apple MPS compatibility.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 665b8

Downloaded checkpoints may execute arbitrary code, and valid fine-tuning checkpoints can fail to load. Non-default inference widths and malformed ASF inputs can also produce incorrect behavior or abort processing, so these issues should be fixed before merge.

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  participant sequence
  participant AugmentedSpec2Pep
  participant SpectrumTransformerEncoder
  participant PeptideTransformerDecoder.greedy_decode
  sequence->>AugmentedSpec2Pep: load model and run prediction
  AugmentedSpec2Pep->>SpectrumTransformerEncoder: encode unique spectra
  SpectrumTransformerEncoder-->>AugmentedSpec2Pep: encoded memory
  AugmentedSpec2Pep->>PeptideTransformerDecoder.greedy_decode: decode with stop token and length bound
  PeptideTransformerDecoder.greedy_decode-->>AugmentedSpec2Pep: tokens and confidences
  AugmentedSpec2Pep-->>sequence: CPU detokenized results
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485-492: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Restore per-block error handling in the ASF read loop.

The previous inline parsing ran inside a try block that caught IndexError, KeyError, and ValueError, skipped the spectrum, and logged a count of skipped spectra. _parse_block now runs without that protection. One malformed block aborts the whole indexing run. Two concrete cases:

  • A block with no peak rows produces peaks of shape (0, 4), and a preprocessing function such as scale_to_unit_norm then raises on empty intensities.
  • A CHARGE= line without digits makes re.match(r"\d+", ...) return None, so .group() raises AttributeError at Line 424.

Wrap the call and keep the skip counter.

♻️ Proposed fix to keep skipping malformed blocks
     def read(self) -> BaseParser:
         """Read the ms data file.
 
         Returns
         -------
         Self
         """
         block = None
+        n_skipped = 0
         with open(self.path) as asf:
             for line in tqdm(asf, desc=str(self.path), unit="lines"):
                 if line.startswith("BEGIN IONS"):
                     block = []
                 elif line.startswith("END IONS"):
                     if block is not None:
-                        self._parse_block(block)
+                        try:
+                            self._parse_block(block)
+                        except (
+                            AttributeError,
+                            IndexError,
+                            KeyError,
+                            ValueError,
+                        ):
+                            n_skipped += 1
                     block = None
                 elif block is not None:
                     block.append(line)
+
+        if n_skipped:
+            LOGGER.warning(
+                "Skipped %d spectra with invalid precursor info", n_skipped
+            )
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In `@cascadia/depthcharge/data/parsers.py` around lines 485 - 492, Update the ASF
read loop around _parse_block to catch malformed-block parsing errors, including
IndexError, KeyError, ValueError, and AttributeError, so the current block is
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In `@cascadia/cascadia.py`:
- Line 116: Update the augment_spectra call to pass the parsed
augmentation_width as its scan-width argument, ensuring --width affects
augmented spectra as well as the result time window.
- Line 75: Update the checkpoint loading call in cascadia.py to use safe
weights-only deserialization instead of weights_only=False. If required
checkpoint contents need NumPy types, add only the narrowly scoped necessary
allowlist; otherwise preserve the existing loading behavior without enabling
arbitrary pickle execution.
- Around line 195-219: Update the checkpoint-loading flow around load_model to
restore or validate the checkpoint’s max_charge and tokenizer vocabulary
metadata before constructing the model, ensuring decoder.charge_encoder and
tokenizer-dependent parameters match the saved state. Preserve the existing CLI
configuration for new training runs and reject incompatible checkpoints with a
clear validation error rather than allowing load_state_dict to fail.

In `@cascadia/depthcharge/transformers/peptides.py`:
- Around line 463-473: Update _positional_encoding and the positional-encoder
handling in _PeptideTransformer so greedy_decode supports only encoders with the
required positional interface, or routes custom callable encoders through a
compatible single-position method. Prevent unconditional access to sin_term and
cos_term for arbitrary callables while preserving the existing Identity and
built-in PositionalEncoder behavior.

In `@docs/source/getting_started.md`:
- Line 33: Remove the unsupported --format option from the sequence() usage
documentation table, leaving --out as the output argument and documenting the
writer’s .ssl output behavior.

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In `@cascadia/depthcharge/data/parsers.py`:
- Around line 485-492: Update the ASF read loop around _parse_block to catch
malformed-block parsing errors, including IndexError, KeyError, ValueError, and
AttributeError, so the current block is skipped without aborting indexing.
Preserve and increment the existing skipped-spectrum counter and its logging
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state, which the ``weights_only=True`` default of ``torch.load`` (PyTorch
>= 2.6) refuses to unpickle, so the weights are loaded explicitly here.
"""
checkpoint = torch.load(model_ckpt_path, map_location='cpu', weights_only=False)

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For PyTorch versions supported by torch>=2.2.0, confirm whether torch.load(..., weights_only=False) uses pickle and can execute code from an untrusted checkpoint. Also identify the supported safe-loading or allowlisting mechanism for checkpoints containing NumPy scalar metadata.

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For PyTorch versions supported by torch>=2.2.0, calling torch.load(..., weights_only=False) indeed uses Python's pickle module under the hood [1][2]. Because pickle is inherently insecure, this operation can execute arbitrary code contained within a maliciously crafted checkpoint; consequently, you must never load checkpoints from untrusted sources when weights_only=False [1][2][3]. For scenarios where you must load checkpoints containing complex objects (such as those with NumPy scalar metadata) while maintaining security, PyTorch provides an allowlisting mechanism to restrict unpickling to a trusted set of classes and functions [1][4]. You can manage this allowlist using the following tools: 1. torch.serialization.add_safe_globals(list_of_objects): Globally adds specified classes or functions to the allowed list [1][5][4]. 2. torch.serialization.safe_globals(list_of_objects): A context manager that allows specified globals only within the scope of the block [6][4]. For complex cases like NumPy dtypes that may be dynamically constructed during unpickling, you should allowlist the specific type object [4]. For example, if you encounter errors regarding NumPy dtypes, you can allowlist them by passing the specific type to these functions, such as torch.serialization.add_safe_globals([type(np.dtype(np.float32))]) [4]. Additionally, you can use torch.serialization.get_unsafe_globals_in_checkpoint(f) to statically identify which globals in a specific checkpoint file are currently not allowlisted [5][4].

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In `@cascadia/cascadia.py` at line 75, Update the checkpoint loading call in
cascadia.py to use safe weights-only deserialization instead of
weights_only=False. If required checkpoint contents need NumPy types, add only
the narrowly scoped necessary allowlist; otherwise preserve the existing loading
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t_start = time.perf_counter()
print("Augmenting spectra from:", spectrum_file)
asf_file, isolation_window_size, cycle_time = augment_spectra(spectrum_file, temp_path, max_charge=max_charge)

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Pass --width to augment_spectra().

augmentation_width is parsed from --width, but this call uses the default scan_width=1. A non-default value only changes the result time window at Line 140. It does not change the augmented spectra. Pass the selected width to preserve the command contract.

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-  asf_file, isolation_window_size, cycle_time = augment_spectra(spectrum_file, temp_path, max_charge=max_charge)
+  asf_file, isolation_window_size, cycle_time = augment_spectra(
+      spectrum_file,
+      temp_path,
+      scan_width=augmentation_width,
+      max_charge=max_charge,
+  )
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asf_file, isolation_window_size, cycle_time = augment_spectra(spectrum_file, temp_path, max_charge=max_charge)
asf_file, isolation_window_size, cycle_time = augment_spectra(
spectrum_file,
temp_path,
scan_width=augmentation_width,
max_charge=max_charge,
)
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In `@cascadia/cascadia.py` at line 116, Update the augment_spectra call to pass
the parsed augmentation_width as its scan-width argument, ensuring --width
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Comment on lines +195 to +219
tokenizer = load_tokenizer(mods)

if '.hdf5' in train_spectrum_file:
train_dataset = AnnotatedSpectrumDataset(tokenizer, index_path=train_spectrum_file, preprocessing_fn=[scale_intensity(scaling="root"), scale_to_unit_norm])
val_dataset = AnnotatedSpectrumDataset(tokenizer, index_path=val_spectrum_file, preprocessing_fn=[scale_intensity(scaling="root"), scale_to_unit_norm])
else:
train_dataset = AnnotatedSpectrumDataset(tokenizer, train_spectrum_file, index_path=train_index_filename, preprocessing_fn=[scale_intensity(scaling="root"), scale_to_unit_norm])
val_dataset = AnnotatedSpectrumDataset(tokenizer, val_spectrum_file, index_path=val_index_filename, preprocessing_fn=[scale_intensity(scaling="root"), scale_to_unit_norm])

train_loader = train_dataset.loader(batch_size=batch_size, num_workers=10, pin_memory=True, shuffle=True)
val_loader = val_dataset.loader(batch_size=batch_size, num_workers=10, pin_memory=True)
train_loader = train_dataset.loader(batch_size=batch_size, num_workers=dataloader_workers(10), pin_memory=(device == 'gpu'), shuffle=True)
val_loader = val_dataset.loader(batch_size=batch_size, num_workers=dataloader_workers(10), pin_memory=(device == 'gpu'))

if model_ckpt_path is None:
print("Training model from scratch")
model = AugmentedSpec2Pep(
d_model = 512,
n_layers = 9,
n_head = 8,
dim_feedforward = 1024,
dropout = 0,
rt_width = augmentation_width,
tokenizer=tokenizer,
max_charge=max_charge,
lr=lr
lr=lr,
**MODEL_HPARAMS,
)

else:
print("Loading model from checkpoint:", model_ckpt_path)
model = AugmentedSpec2Pep.load_from_checkpoint(
model_ckpt_path,
d_model = 512,
n_layers = 9,
n_head = 8,
dim_feedforward = 1024,
dropout = 0,
rt_width = 2,
tokenizer=tokenizer,
max_charge=max_charge,
lr=lr
)
model = load_model(model_ckpt_path, tokenizer, rt_width=2, max_charge=max_charge, lr=lr)

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Restore checkpoint-compatible runtime configuration before loading. When --model references a checkpoint trained with a different --max_charge, load_model constructs decoder.charge_encoder with the current CLI value, then load_state_dict fails because charge_encoder.weight has a different shape. Store and restore max_charge and tokenizer vocabulary metadata, or validate these values before loading.

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[warning] 218-218: Loading a Keras model from an untrusted file can execute arbitrary code via Lambda layers or custom objects. Load only trusted models and avoid deserializing custom objects from untrusted sources.
Context: load_model(model_ckpt_path, tokenizer, rt_width=2, max_charge=max_charge, lr=lr)
Note: [CWE-502] Deserialization of Untrusted Data.

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In `@cascadia/cascadia.py` around lines 195 - 219, Update the checkpoint-loading
flow around load_model to restore or validate the checkpoint’s max_charge and
tokenizer vocabulary metadata before constructing the model, ensuring
decoder.charge_encoder and tokenizer-dependent parameters match the saved state.
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def _positional_encoding(
encoder: torch.nn.Module, position: int, x: torch.Tensor
) -> torch.Tensor:
"""Add the positional encoding for a single sequence position."""
if isinstance(encoder, torch.nn.Identity):
return x

pos = torch.tensor(float(position)).type_as(encoder.sin_term)
sin_pos = torch.sin(pos / encoder.sin_term)
cos_pos = torch.cos(pos / encoder.cos_term)
return x + torch.cat([sin_pos, cos_pos])[None, None, :]

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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fd -t f 'sinusoidal.py' cascadia --exec ast-grep outline {} --items all
rg -nP -C 20 'class PositionalEncoder\b' --type=py

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printf '%s\n' '--- helper and transformer construction/callers ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- greedy_decode state updates ---'
sed -n '320,385p' cascadia/depthcharge/transformers/peptides.py
printf '%s\n' '--- custom positional encoder usage/tests ---'
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Handle custom positional encoders in greedy_decode.

For the built-in PositionalEncoder, _positional_encoding matches PositionalEncoder.forward, including ceil(d_model / 2) sine features, cosine features, concatenation order, scaling, and odd d_model values. However, _PeptideTransformer.__init__ stores any callable positional encoder, while _positional_encoding accesses encoder.sin_term and encoder.cos_term for every non-Identity encoder. A custom callable therefore can raise AttributeError during greedy_decode. Restrict the accepted encoder type or provide a compatible single-position interface for custom encoders.

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In `@cascadia/depthcharge/transformers/peptides.py` around lines 463 - 473, Update
_positional_encoding and the positional-encoder handling in _PeptideTransformer
so greedy_decode supports only encoders with the required positional interface,
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```sh
pip install cascadia gdown
gdown --folder https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1UTrZIrCdUqYqscbqga_KdX8kc8ZjMMfr
cascadia sequence Cascadia/demo.mzML Cascadia/cascadia.ckpt --out demo_results

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the unsupported --format option from the usage table.

sequence() accepts --out as an argparse abbreviation for --outfile, so the Colab command does not fail parsing. The parser has no --format argument, and the writer always produces .ssl output. Remove --format from docs/source/usage.md.

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In `@docs/source/getting_started.md` at line 33, Remove the unsupported --format
option from the sequence() usage documentation table, leaving --out as the
output argument and documenting the writer’s .ssl output behavior.

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Thank you so much for this contribution. We are actually in the process of migrating the cascadia code into the casanovo codebase. In that process, some of these changes will become redundant. I am going to close this PR. Hopefully, in a few weeks you'll be able to try the new, merged version.

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