DeepSeek V4.1

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DeepSeek · Sep 2026
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New parts in the block · after DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp
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deepseek‑ai/DeepSeek‑V4.1‑Flash @ 2cba9e4 · parameter count checked against the checkpoint’s tensor headers · text model onlyHow to read

Reusing layer

40 layers › 6 layers › 5 reusing layers

Writing weights

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tensorattn_post

How strongly attention’s output enters each stream.

shape
uattnu^{\mathrm{attn}} [B batch, T positions, 4 streams]
Sources

Contextual evidence from Stream weights for attention

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 Stream weights for attention

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)

Contextual evidence from Stream weights for attention

The 24 mix numbers become four reading weights (a sigmoid), four writing weights (twice a sigmoid) and a 4 × 4 combination made close to doubly stochastic: a softmax over rows, then alternating column and row normalisations.

hc-split · deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash / inference/kernel.py
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@tilelang.jit(pass_configs=pass_configs)
def hc_split_sinkhorn_kernel(hc: int, sinkhorn_iters: int, eps: float):
    n = T.symbolic("n")
    mix_hc = (2 + hc) * hc
    threads = 64

    @T.prim_func
    def hc_split_sinkhorn_kernel_(
        mixes: T.Tensor[(n, mix_hc), FP32],
        hc_scale: T.Tensor[(3,), FP32],
        hc_base: T.Tensor[(mix_hc,), FP32],
        pre: T.Tensor[(n, hc), FP32],
        post: T.Tensor[(n, hc), FP32],
        comb: T.Tensor[(n, hc, hc), FP32],
    ):
        with T.Kernel(n, threads=threads) as i:
            mixes_shared = T.alloc_shared(mix_hc, FP32)
            comb_frag = T.alloc_fragment((hc, hc), FP32)
            T.copy(mixes[i, :], mixes_shared)

            for j in T.Parallel(hc):
                pre[i, j] = T.sigmoid(mixes_shared[j] * hc_scale[0] + hc_base[j]) + eps
            for j in T.Parallel(hc):
                post[i, j] = 2 * T.sigmoid(mixes_shared[j + hc] * hc_scale[1] + hc_base[j + hc])
            for j, k in T.Parallel(hc, hc):
                comb_frag[j, k] = mixes_shared[j * hc + k + hc * 2] * hc_scale[2] + hc_base[j * hc + k + hc * 2]

            row_sum = T.alloc_fragment(hc, FP32)
            col_sum = T.alloc_fragment(hc, FP32)

            # comb = comb.softmax(-1) + eps
            row_max = T.alloc_fragment(hc, FP32)
            T.reduce_max(comb_frag, row_max, dim=1)
            for j, k in T.Parallel(hc, hc):
                comb_frag[j, k] = T.exp(comb_frag[j, k] - row_max[j])
            T.reduce_sum(comb_frag, row_sum, dim=1)
            for j, k in T.Parallel(hc, hc):
                comb_frag[j, k] = comb_frag[j, k] / row_sum[j] + eps

            # comb = comb / (comb.sum(-2) + eps)
            T.reduce_sum(comb_frag, col_sum, dim=0)
            for j, k in T.Parallel(hc, hc):
                comb_frag[j, k] = comb_frag[j, k] / (col_sum[k] + eps)

            for _ in T.serial(sinkhorn_iters - 1):
                # comb = comb / (comb.sum(-1) + eps)
                T.reduce_sum(comb_frag, row_sum, dim=1)
                for j, k in T.Parallel(hc, hc):
                    comb_frag[j, k] = comb_frag[j, k] / (row_sum[j] + eps)
                # comb = comb / (comb.sum(-2) + eps)
                T.reduce_sum(comb_frag, col_sum, dim=0)
                for j, k in T.Parallel(hc, hc):
                    comb_frag[j, k] = comb_frag[j, k] / (col_sum[k] + eps)

            T.copy(comb_frag, comb[i, :, :])

    return hc_split_sinkhorn_kernel_


def hc_split_sinkhorn(
    mixes: torch.Tensor, hc_scale: torch.Tensor, hc_base: torch.Tensor, hc_mult: int = 4, sinkhorn_iters: int = 20, eps: float = 1e-6
):
    b, s, _ = mixes.size()
    pre = mixes.new_empty(b, s, hc_mult)
    post = mixes.new_empty(b, s, hc_mult)
    comb = mixes.new_empty(b, s, hc_mult, hc_mult)
    kernel = hc_split_sinkhorn_kernel(hc_mult, sinkhorn_iters, eps)
    kernel(mixes.view(-1, (2 + hc_mult) * hc_mult), hc_scale, hc_base, pre.view(-1, hc_mult), post.view(-1, hc_mult), comb.view(-1, hc_mult, hc_mult))
    return pre, post, comb

Contextual evidence from Write the streams

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