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Reference implementation and checkpoint configuration deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash @ 2cba9e4 · parameter count checked against the checkpoint’s tensor headers · text model only · How to read

40 layers

Streams

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Four copies of the embedding.

shape
X0X_0 [B batch, T positions, 4 streams, 5120 d]
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Contextual evidence from Four streams

Tokens are embedded and repeated into four streams; each layer, after an Engram step where it has one, reads and writes the streams; the last reading mix collapses them, then the final norm and the head.

transformer-forward · deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash / inference/model.py
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    @torch.inference_mode()
    def forward(
        self, input_ids: torch.Tensor, start_pos: int = 0, images=None, token_types: torch.Tensor | None = None
    ):
        """input_ids: [b, s], every entry a real token id -- generate.py only ever passes positions it
        has already filled, so the padding it uses internally never reaches here. token_types /
        images carry the VL inputs built by image_processor.prepare_vl_inputs; image spans must lie
        inside the first (start_pos 0) chunk."""
        image_mask = None if token_types is None else token_types >= 0  # TEXT is -1
        # image tokens take no part in an n-gram and get no engram contribution; text-only needs no mask
        engram_mask = None if image_mask is None else ~image_mask
        engram_hashes = self.engram_hash(input_ids, start_pos, engram_mask) if self.engram_hash is not None else None
        h = self.embed(input_ids)
        if images is not None:
            assert start_pos == 0, "image spans must be prefilled in a single chunk"
            self.merge_image_embeddings(images, h)
        # Expand to hc_mult copies for Hyper-Connections
        h = h.unsqueeze(2).repeat(1, 1, self.hc_mult, 1)
        main_hiddens = []
        pre_mix = make_identity_pre_mix(h, self.hc_mult)
        for i, layer in enumerate(self.layers):
            if layer.engram is not None:
                h = layer.engram(h, engram_hashes[:, :, layer.engram.layer_hash_index, :], engram_mask)
            # the MTP head reads the attention input of its target layers, not their output
            if i in self.target_layer_ids:
                main_hiddens.append(h.mean(dim=2))
            h, pre_mix = layer(h, start_pos, pre_mix, image_mask)
        h = layer.hc_pre(h, pre_mix)
        logits = self.head(self.norm(h))
        output_ids = sample(logits, self.temperature)
        main_hidden = torch.cat(main_hiddens, dim=-1) if main_hiddens else None
        return output_ids, logits, main_hidden

Contextual evidence from Four streams

The reference configuration: 40 layers of width 5,120, 64 heads of 512 features with a 64-feature rotary part, a 1,280-feature query latent, a grouped output of 8 groups at rank 1,024, a window of 128, the per-layer compression ratios and the two source lists, the indexer and its candidate stage, hyper-connections of 4 streams, 384 routed experts of which 6 are used with 1 shared, Engram before layers 1 and 14, and three DSpark blocks.

config · deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash / inference/config.json
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{
    "vocab_size": 129280,
    "dim": 5120,
    "moe_inter_dim": 2304,
    "n_layers": 40,
    "n_mtp_layers": 3,
    "dspark_block_size": 5,
    "dspark_noise_token_id": 128799,
    "dspark_target_layer_ids": [37, 38, 39],
    "dspark_markov_rank": 256,
    "dspark_n_routed_experts": 128,
    "dspark_n_activated_experts": 3,
    "n_heads": 64,
    "n_routed_experts": 384,
    "n_shared_experts": 1,
    "n_activated_experts": 6,
    "score_func": "sqrtsoftplus",
    "route_scale": 1.5,
    "swiglu_limit": 10.0,
    "q_lora_rank": 1280,
    "head_dim": 512,
    "rope_head_dim": 64,
    "norm_eps": 1e-20,
    "o_groups": 8,
    "o_lora_rank": 1024,
    "window_size": 128,
    "kv_source_layers": [2, 8, 14, 20],
    "index_source_layers": [2, 8, 14, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36],
    "original_seq_len": 65536,
    "rope_theta": 10000,
    "rope_factor": 16,
    "beta_fast": 32,
    "beta_slow": 1,
    "index_n_heads": 32,
    "index_head_dim": 128,
    "index_topk": 512,
    "candidate_source_layer": 20,
    "candidate_topk_blocks": 2048,
    "candidate_block_size": 8,
    "hc_mult": 4,
    "hc_sinkhorn_iters": 20,
    "hc_eps": 1e-06,
    "engram_layer_ids": [1, 14],
    "engram_vocab_size": 16000000,
    "engram_num_embeddings": [384006168, 384016682],
    "engram_max_ngram_size": 4,
    "engram_pad_id": 2,
    "engram_compressed_vocab_size": 99092,
    "dtype": "fp8",
    "expert_dtype": "fp4",
    "compress_rope_theta": 160000,
    "compress_ratios": [0, 0, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0],
    "vision_n_layers": 32,
    "vision_dim": 1024,
    "vision_n_heads": 16,
    "vision_inter_dim": 2816,
    "vision_patch_size": 14,
    "vision_downsample_ratio": 3,
    "vision_max_n_token": 1024,
    "vision_min_pixels": 295936,
    "vision_max_wh_ratio": null,
    "image_token_id": 129264,
    "engram_n_heads": 8,
    "engram_head_dim": 256,
    "vision_rope_theta": 10000
}

Contextual evidence from Window layer

A block owns its attention and mixture, two RMSNorms, and for each sublayer a projection of the flattened streams to 24 mix numbers with 24 offsets and 3 scales.

block-init · deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash / inference/model.py
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class Block(nn.Module):
    """A block whose residual stream is `hc_mult` parallel copies (Hyper-Connections).

    Attention and FFN each sit between `hc_pre` (collapse the copies into one sublayer input) and
    `hc_post` (expand back out, mixing the residual in through `comb`). `hc_mixes` derives all three
    coefficient sets from the stream itself, `comb` made doubly stochastic by Sinkhorn.

    The coefficients a sublayer computes are used by the *next* one -- see `forward`.
    """

    attention_cls = Attention

    def __init__(
        self,
        layer_id: int,
        args: ModelArgs,
        engram_layout: EngramLayout | None = None,
    ):
        super().__init__()
        self.layer_id = layer_id
        self.norm_eps = args.norm_eps
        self.attn = self.attention_cls(layer_id, args)
        self.ffn = MoE(layer_id, args)
        self.engram = None
        if engram_layout is not None and layer_id in engram_layout.layer_ids:
            self.engram = Engram(args, layer_id, engram_layout)
        self.attn_norm = RMSNorm(args.dim, self.norm_eps)
        self.ffn_norm = RMSNorm(args.dim, self.norm_eps)
        self.hc_mult = hc_mult = args.hc_mult
        self.hc_sinkhorn_iters = args.hc_sinkhorn_iters
        self.hc_eps = args.hc_eps
        mix_hc = (2 + hc_mult) * hc_mult
        hc_dim = hc_mult * args.dim
        with set_dtype(torch.float32):
            self.hc_attn_fn = nn.Parameter(torch.empty(mix_hc, hc_dim))
            self.hc_ffn_fn = nn.Parameter(torch.empty(mix_hc, hc_dim))
            self.hc_attn_base = nn.Parameter(torch.empty(mix_hc))
            self.hc_ffn_base = nn.Parameter(torch.empty(mix_hc))
            self.hc_attn_scale = nn.Parameter(torch.empty(3))
            self.hc_ffn_scale = nn.Parameter(torch.empty(3))

Contextual evidence from Window layer

Attention reads the streams with the mix the previous sublayer computed and writes with its own; the mixture reads with the mix attention computed and writes with its own, and hands its reading mix to the next layer.

block-forward · deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash / inference/model.py
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    def forward(
        self,
        x: torch.Tensor,
        start_pos: int,
        pre_mix: torch.Tensor,
        image_mask: torch.Tensor | None,
        *attn_args,
    ) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
        """`pre_mix` collapses the hc_mult copies down to one input for this block's attention. Each
        sub-block's own `hc_mixes` produces the mix for the *next* one, so attention uses what the
        previous layer's FFN produced and the FFN uses what this attention produced.

        image_mask: [b, s] bool, True inside image spans (selects the VL routing bias)."""
        residual = x
        attn_pre, attn_post, attn_comb = self.hc_mixes(x, self.hc_attn_fn, self.hc_attn_scale, self.hc_attn_base)
        x = self.hc_pre(x, pre_mix)
        x = self.attn_norm(x)
        x = self.attn(x, start_pos, *attn_args)
        x = self.hc_post(x, residual, attn_post, attn_comb)

        residual = x
        ffn_pre, ffn_post, ffn_comb = self.hc_mixes(x, self.hc_ffn_fn, self.hc_ffn_scale, self.hc_ffn_base)
        x = self.hc_pre(x, attn_pre)
        x = self.ffn_norm(x)
        x = self.ffn(x, image_mask)
        x = self.hc_post(x, residual, ffn_post, ffn_comb)
        return x, ffn_pre

Contextual evidence from Window layer

The mix numbers are a projection of the flattened streams divided by their root mean square; reading is a weighted sum of the streams; writing adds the sublayer output, weighted per stream, to a combination of the streams.

block-hc · deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash / inference/model.py
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    def hc_mixes(self, x: torch.Tensor, hc_fn: torch.Tensor, hc_scale: torch.Tensor, hc_base: torch.Tensor):
        """x: [b,s,hc,d], hc_fn: [mix_hc, hc*d], hc_scale: [3], hc_base: [mix_hc]. Returns the
        pre / post / comb coefficients, split out of one projection of the flattened stream."""
        # normalized over the whole flattened hc*d stream, one statistic per token
        x = x.flatten(2).float()
        rsqrt = torch.rsqrt(x.square().mean(-1, keepdim=True) + self.norm_eps)
        mixes = F.linear(x, hc_fn) * rsqrt
        return hc_split_sinkhorn(mixes, hc_scale, hc_base, self.hc_mult, self.hc_sinkhorn_iters, self.hc_eps)

    def hc_pre(self, x: torch.Tensor, pre_mix: torch.Tensor):
        """Collapse the hc copies into one, weighted by pre_mix. [b,s,hc,d] x [b,s,hc] -> [b,s,d]"""
        y = torch.sum(pre_mix.unsqueeze(-1) * x.float(), dim=2)
        return y.to(x.dtype)

    def hc_post(self, x: torch.Tensor, residual: torch.Tensor, post: torch.Tensor, comb: torch.Tensor):
        """Expand the sublayer output back to hc copies and mix the residual in through `comb`.
        x: [b,s,d], residual: [b,s,hc,d], post: [b,s,hc], comb: [b,s,hc,hc] -> [b,s,hc,d]"""
        y = post.unsqueeze(-1) * x.unsqueeze(-2) + torch.sum(comb.unsqueeze(-1) * residual.unsqueeze(-2), dim=2)
        return y.type_as(x)