README.md
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| 2 | license: mit |
| 3 | library_name: transformers |
| 4 | --- |
| 5 | # DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 |
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| 37 | <p align="center"> |
| 38 | <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.19348"><b>Technical Report</b>👁️</a> |
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| 40 | |
| 41 | ## Introduction |
| 42 | |
| 43 | **DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731** is the official release of **DeepSeek-V4-Flash**, superseding the preview version, with substantially enhanced agentic capabilities. It has the same model structure as [DeepSeek-V4-Flash-DSpark](https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-DSpark), i.e. it comes with a speculative decoding module attached. |
| 44 | |
| 45 | DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 outperforms DeepSeek-V4-Pro (Preview) on benchmarks listed below despite its far smaller activated parameter count, and is broadly competitive with the strongest proprietary models available. |
| 46 | |
| 47 | <div align="center"> |
| 48 | |
| 49 | | Benchmark | DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 | DeepSeek-V4-Flash (Preview) | DeepSeek-V4-Pro (Preview) | GLM-5.2 | Opus-4.8 | |
| 50 | | :--- | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: | |
| 51 | | Terminal Bench 2.1 | 82.7 | 61.8 | 72.1 | 81.0 | 85.0 | |
| 52 | | NL2Repo | 54.2 | 39.4 | 38.5 | 48.9 | 69.7 | |
| 53 | | Cybergym | 76.7 | 38.7 | 52.7 | - | 83.1 | |
| 54 | | DeepSWE | 54.4 | 7.3 | 12.8 | 46.2 | 58.0 | |
| 55 | | Toolathlon-Verified | 70.3 | 49.7 | 55.9 | 59.9 | 76.2 | |
| 56 | | Agents' Last Exam | 25.2 | 15.8 | 16.5 | 23.8 | 25.7 | |
| 57 | | AutomationBench Public | 25.1 | 10.8 | 12.8 | 12.9 | 27.2 | |
| 58 | | DSBench-FullStack † | 68.7 | 37.0 | 41.8 | 61.8 | 71.6 | |
| 59 | | DSBench-Hard † | 59.6 | 25.8 | 31.1 | 54.5 | 71.7 | |
| 60 | |
| 61 | </div> |
| 62 | |
| 63 | Notes: |
| 64 | |
| 65 | 1. For the Code Agent tasks among the public benchmarks above, DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 is evaluated with the minimal mode of DeepSeek Harness (to be released) as the agent framework, using the `max` reasoning effort level with `temperature = 1.0, top_p = 0.95`. |
| 66 | 2. † DSBench-FullStack is an internal full-stack development test set; DSBench-Hard is an internal test set of difficult coding-agent problems. |
| 67 | |
| 68 | ## Chat Template |
| 69 | |
| 70 | This release does not include a Jinja-format chat template. Instead, we provide a dedicated `encoding` folder with Python scripts and test cases demonstrating how to encode messages in OpenAI-compatible format into input strings for the model, and how to parse the model's text output. Please refer to the [`encoding`](encoding/README.md) folder for full documentation. |
| 71 | |
| 72 | The `reasoning_effort` parameter now supports three levels — `low`, `high`, and `max` — which control how much deliberation the model spends before answering. |
| 73 | |
| 74 | A brief example: |
| 75 | |
| 76 | ```python |
| 77 | from encoding_dsv4 import encode_messages, parse_message_from_completion_text |
| 78 | |
| 79 | messages = [ |
| 80 | {"role": "user", "content": "hello"}, |
| 81 | {"role": "assistant", "content": "Hello! I am DeepSeek.", "reasoning_content": "thinking..."}, |
| 82 | {"role": "user", "content": "1+1=?"} |
| 83 | ] |
| 84 | |
| 85 | # messages -> string |
| 86 | prompt = encode_messages(messages, thinking_mode="thinking", reasoning_effort="max") |
| 87 | |
| 88 | # string -> tokens |
| 89 | import transformers |
| 90 | tokenizer = transformers.AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731") |
| 91 | tokens = tokenizer.encode(prompt) |
| 92 | ``` |
| 93 | |
| 94 | ## How to Run with vLLM |
| 95 | |
| 96 | DSpark speculative decoding is enabled with a single flag — add --speculative-config with method: dspark to your vLLM launch command: |
| 97 | |
| 98 | `--speculative-config '{"method":"dspark","num_speculative_tokens":7,"draft_sample_method":"greedy"}'` |
| 99 | |
| 100 | For example, the command below serves the model with vLLM on a single 4×GB300 node. |
| 101 | See the [vLLM recipe](https://recipes.vllm.ai/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash?hardware=b300&features=tool_calling,reasoning) for detailed instructions and other hardware configurations. |
| 102 | |
| 103 | ```bash |
| 104 | vllm serve deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 \ |
| 105 | --trust-remote-code --kv-cache-dtype fp8 --block-size 256 \ |
| 106 | --data-parallel-size 4 --enable-expert-parallel \ |
| 107 | --moe-backend deep_gemm_mega_moe \ |
| 108 | --attention-config '{"use_fp4_indexer_cache": true}' \ |
| 109 | --speculative-config '{"method":"dspark","num_speculative_tokens":7,"draft_sample_method":"greedy"}' |
| 110 | ``` |
| 111 | |
| 112 | ## How to Run with SGLang |
| 113 | |
| 114 | Enable DSpark with `--speculative-algorithm DSPARK` and do not set a separate `--speculative-draft-model-path` as the target and draft weights therefore come from the same checkpoint. |
| 115 | See the [SGLang cookbook](https://docs.sglang.io/cookbook/autoregressive/DeepSeek/DeepSeek-V4#hw=gb300&variant=flash-official&quant=fp4&strategy=low-latency&nodes=single) for detailed instructions, benchmarks and other hardwares configurations. |
| 116 | |
| 117 | ```bash |
| 118 | sglang serve \ |
| 119 | --trust-remote-code \ |
| 120 | --model-path deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 \ |
| 121 | --tp 4 \ |
| 122 | --moe-runner-backend flashinfer_mxfp4 \ |
| 123 | --speculative-algorithm DSPARK \ |
| 124 | --mem-fraction-static 0.90 \ |
| 125 | --chunked-prefill-size 4096 \ |
| 126 | --swa-full-tokens-ratio 0.1 \ |
| 127 | ``` |
| 128 | |
| 129 | ## How to Run Locally |
| 130 | |
| 131 | Please refer to the [inference](inference/README.md) folder for detailed instructions on running DeepSeek-V4 locally, including model weight conversion and interactive chat demos. |
| 132 | |
| 133 | For local deployment, we recommend setting the sampling parameters to `temperature = 1.0`, with `top_p = 0.95` for agentic scenarios and `top_p = 1.0` otherwise. For the `high` and `max` reasoning effort levels, we recommend a maximum output length of **384K** tokens. |
| 134 | |
| 135 | ## License |
| 136 | |
| 137 | This repository and the model weights are licensed under the [MIT License](LICENSE). |
| 138 | |
| 139 | ## Citation |
| 140 | |
| 141 | ``` |
| 142 | @misc{deepseekai2026deepseekv4, |
| 143 | title={DeepSeek-V4: Towards Highly Efficient Million-Token Context Intelligence}, |
| 144 | author={DeepSeek-AI}, |
| 145 | year={2026}, |
| 146 | } |
| 147 | ``` |
| 148 | |
| 149 | ## Contact |
| 150 | |
| 151 | If you have any questions, please raise an issue or contact us at [service@deepseek.com](service@deepseek.com). |