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What the mixture hands to the streams.
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Contextual evidence from Mixture of experts
The mixture adds the selected routed experts’ outputs and the shared expert’s; routed experts are stored in FP4.
moe · deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash / inference/model.py
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class MoE(nn.Module):
"""Top-k routed experts plus one shared expert every token goes through. Experts are split
across ranks, so `self.experts` is None for those another rank owns."""
def __init__(self, layer_id: int, args: ModelArgs):
super().__init__()
n_routed_experts, n_activated_experts = args.get_moe_config(layer_id)
self.layer_id = layer_id
self.dim = args.dim
assert n_routed_experts % world_size == 0, (
f"Number of experts must be divisible by world size (world_size={world_size})"
)
self.n_routed_experts = n_routed_experts
self.n_local_experts = n_routed_experts // world_size
self.n_activated_experts = n_activated_experts
self.experts_start_idx = rank * self.n_local_experts
self.experts_end_idx = self.experts_start_idx + self.n_local_experts
self.gate = Gate(layer_id, args)
expert_dtype = torch.float4_e2m1fn_x2 if args.expert_dtype == "fp4" else None
self.experts = nn.ModuleList(
[
Expert(
args.dim,
args.moe_inter_dim,
dtype=expert_dtype,
swiglu_limit=args.swiglu_limit,
)
if self.experts_start_idx <= i < self.experts_end_idx
else None
for i in range(self.n_routed_experts)
]
)
assert args.n_shared_experts == 1
self.shared_experts = Expert(args.dim, args.moe_inter_dim, swiglu_limit=args.swiglu_limit)
def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor, image_mask: torch.Tensor | None = None) -> torch.Tensor:
shape = x.size()
x = x.view(-1, self.dim)
weights, indices = self.gate(x, None if image_mask is None else image_mask.flatten())
y = torch.zeros_like(x, dtype=torch.float32)
counts = torch.bincount(indices.flatten(), minlength=self.n_routed_experts).tolist()
for i in range(self.experts_start_idx, self.experts_end_idx):
if counts[i] == 0:
continue
expert = self.experts[i]
idx, top = torch.where(indices == i)
y[idx] += expert(x[idx], weights[idx, top, None])
if world_size > 1:
dist.all_reduce(y)
y += self.shared_experts(x)
return y.type_as(x).view(shape)Contextual evidence from Mixture of experts
The router: the square root of softplus of a projection, a selection bias (a second one at image positions), the best six, their unbiased scores normalised and scaled.
gate · deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash / inference/model.py
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class Gate(nn.Module):
"""MoE gating. The correction bias steers expert selection only; the routing weights come from the
unbiased scores. Image-span tokens use a separate bias (training `noaux_tc_for_vl`)."""
def __init__(self, layer_id: int, args: ModelArgs):
super().__init__()
n_routed_experts, n_activated_experts = args.get_moe_config(layer_id)
self.dim = args.dim
self.topk = n_activated_experts
self.score_func = args.score_func
self.gate_temp = args.gate_temp
self.norm_topk_prob = args.norm_topk_prob
self.route_scale = args.route_scale
self.weight = nn.Parameter(torch.empty(n_routed_experts, args.dim))
self.bias = nn.Parameter(torch.empty(n_routed_experts, dtype=torch.float32))
self.bias_vl = nn.Parameter(torch.empty(n_routed_experts, dtype=torch.float32)) if args.vision_enabled else None
def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor, image_mask: torch.Tensor | None = None) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
"""x: [n, dim]; image_mask: [n] bool, True for tokens inside an image span."""
scores = linear(x.float(), self.weight.float()) / self.gate_temp
if self.score_func == "softmax":
scores = scores.softmax(dim=-1)
elif self.score_func == "sigmoid":
scores = scores.sigmoid()
else:
scores = F.softplus(scores).sqrt()
bias = self.bias
if image_mask is not None and self.bias_vl is not None:
bias = torch.where(image_mask.unsqueeze(-1), self.bias_vl, bias)
# the bias picks experts but does not scale them: weights come from the raw scores
indices = (scores + bias).topk(self.topk, dim=-1)[1]
weights = scores.gather(1, indices)
if self.norm_topk_prob and self.topk > 1:
weights /= weights.sum(dim=-1, keepdim=True) + 1e-20 # not norm_eps, matches training
weights *= self.route_scale
return weights, indicesContextual evidence from Mixture of experts
An expert is SwiGLU with its gate and up branches clamped; the routing weight multiplies the hidden features before the down projection.
expert · deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash / inference/model.py
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class Expert(nn.Module):
"""One SwiGLU FFN. The clamps come straight from training, where they keep fp8/fp4 activations in
range: the up branch is clamped on both sides, the gate branch only from above."""
def __init__(self, dim: int, inter_dim: int, dtype=None, swiglu_limit=0.0):
super().__init__()
self.w1 = Linear(dim, inter_dim, dtype=dtype)
self.w2 = Linear(inter_dim, dim, dtype=dtype)
self.w3 = Linear(dim, inter_dim, dtype=dtype)
self.swiglu_limit = swiglu_limit
def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor, weights: torch.Tensor | None = None) -> torch.Tensor:
dtype = x.dtype
gate = self.w1(x).float()
up = self.w3(x).float()
if self.swiglu_limit > 0:
up = torch.clamp(up, min=-self.swiglu_limit, max=self.swiglu_limit)
gate = torch.clamp(gate, max=self.swiglu_limit)
x = F.silu(gate) * up
if weights is not None:
x = weights * x
return self.w2(x.to(dtype))Contextual evidence from Mixture of experts
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 Write the streams
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 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