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

Window keys and values

in
xattnx_{\mathrm{attn}} [B batch, T positions, 5120 d]
out
WW [B batch, T positions, 512 d_h]
parameters
2,621,952 · × 2 groups × 5 layers = 26,219,520
Parameters

2,621,952 parameters per instance, across its learned components

Exact per-instance accounting
ComponentCalculationParameters
Key–value projection5,120×5125{,}120 \times 5122,621,440
Key–value RMSNorm512512512
Per-instance total2,621,952

Across 5 independent layers: 2,621,952×5=13,109,7602{,}621{,}952 \times 5 = 13{,}109{,}760 parameters.

Derived from the pinned reference implementation and configuration; equal to the element counts of the checkpoint’s own tensors on the text path. The quantisation scales, the vision encoder and the DSpark blocks are not counted.

Explanation

There is one key–value head: no head has keys or values of its own (model.py 643; kernel.py 365, 380).

Codemodel.py 281–720
model.py 613–698
class Attention(nn.Module):
    """Latent attention over two KV sources at once, concatenated into one `sparse_attn` call: a
    sliding window of raw KV, plus -- when compress_ratio > 0 -- `index_topk` compressed positions
    reaching further back. Q and the output projection are both low-rank, the latter grouped.

    compress_ratio > 0 does not mean the layer compresses its own KV: only kv_source_layers do,
    the rest read that same cache.
    """

    def __init__(self, layer_id: int, args: ModelArgs):
        super().__init__()
        self.layer_id = layer_id
        self.dim = args.dim
        self.n_heads = args.n_heads
        self.n_local_heads = args.n_heads // world_size
        self.q_lora_rank = args.q_lora_rank
        self.o_lora_rank = args.o_lora_rank
        self.head_dim = args.head_dim
        self.rope_head_dim = args.rope_head_dim
        self.nope_head_dim = args.head_dim - args.rope_head_dim
        self.n_groups = args.o_groups
        self.n_local_groups = self.n_groups // world_size
        self.window_size = args.window_size
        self.compress_ratio = args.compress_ratios[layer_id]
        self.eps = args.norm_eps

        self.attn_sink = nn.Parameter(torch.empty(self.n_local_heads, dtype=torch.float32))
        self.wq_a = Linear(self.dim, self.q_lora_rank)
        self.q_norm = RMSNorm(self.q_lora_rank, self.eps)
        self.wq_b = ColumnParallelLinear(self.q_lora_rank, self.n_heads * self.head_dim)
        self.wkv = Linear(self.dim, self.head_dim)
        self.kv_norm = RMSNorm(self.head_dim, self.eps)
        self.wo_a = ColumnParallelLinear(
            self.n_heads * self.head_dim // self.n_groups,
            self.n_groups * args.o_lora_rank,
            dtype=torch.bfloat16,
        )
        self.wo_b = RowParallelLinear(self.n_groups * args.o_lora_rank, self.dim)
        self.softmax_scale = self.head_dim**-0.5

        is_backbone = layer_id < args.n_layers
        self.is_kv_source = is_backbone and layer_id in args.kv_source_layers
        self.is_index_source = is_backbone and layer_id in args.index_source_layers
        self.compressor: Compressor | None = None
        self.indexer: Indexer | None = None
        if self.is_kv_source:
            self.compressor = Compressor(args, layer_id)
        if self.is_index_source:
            self.indexer = Indexer(args, layer_id)

        self.window_kv_cache: torch.Tensor
        self.register_buffer(
            "window_kv_cache",
            torch.zeros(args.max_batch_size, args.window_size, self.head_dim),
            persistent=False,
        )
        if self.is_kv_source:
            self.compress_kv_cache: torch.Tensor
            self.register_buffer(
                "compress_kv_cache",
                torch.zeros(
                    args.max_batch_size,
                    args.max_seq_len // self.compress_ratio,
                    self.head_dim,
                ),
                persistent=False,
            )
        if self.compress_ratio:
            original_seq_len, rope_theta = (
                args.original_seq_len,
                args.compress_rope_theta,
            )
        else:
            # disable YaRN and use base rope_theta in pure sliding-window attention
            original_seq_len, rope_theta = 0, args.rope_theta
        freqs_cis = precompute_freqs_cis(
            self.rope_head_dim,
            args.max_seq_len,
            original_seq_len,
            rope_theta,
            args.rope_factor,
            args.beta_fast,
            args.beta_slow,
        )
        self.freqs_cis: torch.Tensor
        self.register_buffer("freqs_cis", freqs_cis, persistent=False)
model.py 700–720
    def _window_kv(self, x, freqs_cis, start_pos):
        """This layer's sliding-window K and the window positions every query may attend to. The K
        stays fp8, quantized over the whole post-RoPE vector, RoPE tail included."""
        bsz, seqlen, _ = x.size()
        win = self.window_size
        kv = self.kv_norm(self.wkv(x))
        apply_rotary_emb(kv[..., -self.rope_head_dim :], freqs_cis)
        act_quant(kv, fp8_block_size, scale_fmt, scale_dtype, True)
        if start_pos == 0:  # prefill: attend over this chunk, seeding the ring buffer for decode
            if seqlen <= win:
                self.window_kv_cache[:bsz, :seqlen] = kv
            else:
                cutoff = seqlen % win
                self.window_kv_cache[:bsz, cutoff:win], self.window_kv_cache[:bsz, :cutoff] = kv[:, -win:].split(
                    [win - cutoff, cutoff], dim=1
                )
            window_kv = kv
        else:  # decode: one token into the ring buffer, attend over the whole window
            self.window_kv_cache[:bsz, start_pos % win] = kv.squeeze(1)
            window_kv = self.window_kv_cache[:bsz]
        return window_kv, get_window_topk_idxs(win, bsz, seqlen, start_pos)
model.py 281–293
class RMSNorm(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self, dim: int, eps: float = 1e-6):
        super().__init__()
        self.dim = dim
        self.eps = eps
        self.weight = nn.Parameter(torch.ones(dim))

    def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor):
        dtype = x.dtype
        x = x.float()
        var = x.square().mean(-1, keepdim=True)
        x = x * torch.rsqrt(var + self.eps)
        return (self.weight * x).to(dtype)
model.py 369–406
def precompute_freqs_cis(dim, seqlen, original_seq_len, base, factor, beta_fast, beta_slow) -> torch.Tensor:
    """Rotary frequencies as complex exponentials, one row per position.

    With original_seq_len > 0 this applies YaRN: dimensions whose wavelength already fits inside the
    training context keep their frequency, those far beyond it are divided by `factor`, and the
    `beta_fast`..`beta_slow` band in between is faded across with a linear ramp.
    """
    freqs = 1.0 / (base ** (torch.arange(0, dim, 2, dtype=torch.float32) / dim))
    if original_seq_len > 0:
        # the dim whose wavelength completes `rotations` turns over the training context
        def corrected_dim(rotations):
            return dim * math.log(original_seq_len / (rotations * 2 * math.pi)) / (2 * math.log(base))

        low = max(math.floor(corrected_dim(beta_fast)), 0)
        high = min(math.ceil(corrected_dim(beta_slow)), dim - 1)
        ramp = ((torch.arange(dim // 2, dtype=torch.float32) - low) / max(high - low, 1e-3)).clamp(0, 1)
        smooth = 1 - ramp
        freqs = freqs / factor * (1 - smooth) + freqs * smooth

    freqs = torch.outer(torch.arange(seqlen), freqs)
    return torch.polar(torch.ones_like(freqs), freqs)


def apply_rotary_emb(x: torch.Tensor, freqs_cis: torch.Tensor, inverse: bool = False) -> torch.Tensor:
    """Rotate `x` in place, taking adjacent element pairs as complex numbers. Accepts [b, s, d] and
    [b, s, h, d]; `inverse` conjugates the rotation, which is how the attention output gets the
    query's rotation removed again so the cache can stay in one shared rotated form."""
    y = x
    x = torch.view_as_complex(x.float().unflatten(-1, (-1, 2)))
    if inverse:
        freqs_cis = freqs_cis.conj()
    if x.ndim == 3:
        freqs_cis = freqs_cis.view(1, x.size(1), x.size(-1))
    else:
        freqs_cis = freqs_cis.view(1, x.size(1), 1, x.size(-1))
    x = torch.view_as_real(x * freqs_cis).flatten(-2)
    y.copy_(x)
    return y
Sources4

Direct evidence

Attention owns a low-rank query, one key–value projection, a learned sink per head, a grouped low-rank output, a ring buffer for the window, and, by the two source lists, a compressor and an indexer; layers that attend to compressed positions use the larger rotary base with YaRN.

attention-init · deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash / inference/model.py
Pinned revision 2cba9e42aa02 ↗ · lines 613–698

Read code excerpt
class Attention(nn.Module):
    """Latent attention over two KV sources at once, concatenated into one `sparse_attn` call: a
    sliding window of raw KV, plus -- when compress_ratio > 0 -- `index_topk` compressed positions
    reaching further back. Q and the output projection are both low-rank, the latter grouped.

    compress_ratio > 0 does not mean the layer compresses its own KV: only kv_source_layers do,
    the rest read that same cache.
    """

    def __init__(self, layer_id: int, args: ModelArgs):
        super().__init__()
        self.layer_id = layer_id
        self.dim = args.dim
        self.n_heads = args.n_heads
        self.n_local_heads = args.n_heads // world_size
        self.q_lora_rank = args.q_lora_rank
        self.o_lora_rank = args.o_lora_rank
        self.head_dim = args.head_dim
        self.rope_head_dim = args.rope_head_dim
        self.nope_head_dim = args.head_dim - args.rope_head_dim
        self.n_groups = args.o_groups
        self.n_local_groups = self.n_groups // world_size
        self.window_size = args.window_size
        self.compress_ratio = args.compress_ratios[layer_id]
        self.eps = args.norm_eps

        self.attn_sink = nn.Parameter(torch.empty(self.n_local_heads, dtype=torch.float32))
        self.wq_a = Linear(self.dim, self.q_lora_rank)
        self.q_norm = RMSNorm(self.q_lora_rank, self.eps)
        self.wq_b = ColumnParallelLinear(self.q_lora_rank, self.n_heads * self.head_dim)
        self.wkv = Linear(self.dim, self.head_dim)
        self.kv_norm = RMSNorm(self.head_dim, self.eps)
        self.wo_a = ColumnParallelLinear(
            self.n_heads * self.head_dim // self.n_groups,
            self.n_groups * args.o_lora_rank,
            dtype=torch.bfloat16,
        )
        self.wo_b = RowParallelLinear(self.n_groups * args.o_lora_rank, self.dim)
        self.softmax_scale = self.head_dim**-0.5

        is_backbone = layer_id < args.n_layers
        self.is_kv_source = is_backbone and layer_id in args.kv_source_layers
        self.is_index_source = is_backbone and layer_id in args.index_source_layers
        self.compressor: Compressor | None = None
        self.indexer: Indexer | None = None
        if self.is_kv_source:
            self.compressor = Compressor(args, layer_id)
        if self.is_index_source:
            self.indexer = Indexer(args, layer_id)

        self.window_kv_cache: torch.Tensor
        self.register_buffer(
            "window_kv_cache",
            torch.zeros(args.max_batch_size, args.window_size, self.head_dim),
            persistent=False,
        )
        if self.is_kv_source:
            self.compress_kv_cache: torch.Tensor
            self.register_buffer(
                "compress_kv_cache",
                torch.zeros(
                    args.max_batch_size,
                    args.max_seq_len // self.compress_ratio,
                    self.head_dim,
                ),
                persistent=False,
            )
        if self.compress_ratio:
            original_seq_len, rope_theta = (
                args.original_seq_len,
                args.compress_rope_theta,
            )
        else:
            # disable YaRN and use base rope_theta in pure sliding-window attention
            original_seq_len, rope_theta = 0, args.rope_theta
        freqs_cis = precompute_freqs_cis(
            self.rope_head_dim,
            args.max_seq_len,
            original_seq_len,
            rope_theta,
            args.rope_factor,
            args.beta_fast,
            args.beta_slow,
        )
        self.freqs_cis: torch.Tensor
        self.register_buffer("freqs_cis", freqs_cis, persistent=False)

Direct evidence

The window keys and values: one projection and a norm, the rotary part rotated, quantised to FP8, written to the ring buffer.

attention-window · deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash / inference/model.py
Pinned revision 2cba9e42aa02 ↗ · lines 700–720

Read code excerpt
    def _window_kv(self, x, freqs_cis, start_pos):
        """This layer's sliding-window K and the window positions every query may attend to. The K
        stays fp8, quantized over the whole post-RoPE vector, RoPE tail included."""
        bsz, seqlen, _ = x.size()
        win = self.window_size
        kv = self.kv_norm(self.wkv(x))
        apply_rotary_emb(kv[..., -self.rope_head_dim :], freqs_cis)
        act_quant(kv, fp8_block_size, scale_fmt, scale_dtype, True)
        if start_pos == 0:  # prefill: attend over this chunk, seeding the ring buffer for decode
            if seqlen <= win:
                self.window_kv_cache[:bsz, :seqlen] = kv
            else:
                cutoff = seqlen % win
                self.window_kv_cache[:bsz, cutoff:win], self.window_kv_cache[:bsz, :cutoff] = kv[:, -win:].split(
                    [win - cutoff, cutoff], dim=1
                )
            window_kv = kv
        else:  # decode: one token into the ring buffer, attend over the whole window
            self.window_kv_cache[:bsz, start_pos % win] = kv.squeeze(1)
            window_kv = self.window_kv_cache[:bsz]
        return window_kv, get_window_topk_idxs(win, bsz, seqlen, start_pos)

Direct evidence

RMSNorm divides by the root mean square over the features, computed in float32, and multiplies by a learned gain.

rmsnorm · deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash / inference/model.py
Pinned revision 2cba9e42aa02 ↗ · lines 281–293

Read code excerpt
class RMSNorm(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self, dim: int, eps: float = 1e-6):
        super().__init__()
        self.dim = dim
        self.eps = eps
        self.weight = nn.Parameter(torch.ones(dim))

    def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor):
        dtype = x.dtype
        x = x.float()
        var = x.square().mean(-1, keepdim=True)
        x = x * torch.rsqrt(var + self.eps)
        return (self.weight * x).to(dtype)

Direct evidence

Rotary frequencies with the YaRN scaling above the original context, and the rotation of adjacent feature pairs, with an inverse.

rope · deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash / inference/model.py
Pinned revision 2cba9e42aa02 ↗ · lines 369–406

Read code excerpt
def precompute_freqs_cis(dim, seqlen, original_seq_len, base, factor, beta_fast, beta_slow) -> torch.Tensor:
    """Rotary frequencies as complex exponentials, one row per position.

    With original_seq_len > 0 this applies YaRN: dimensions whose wavelength already fits inside the
    training context keep their frequency, those far beyond it are divided by `factor`, and the
    `beta_fast`..`beta_slow` band in between is faded across with a linear ramp.
    """
    freqs = 1.0 / (base ** (torch.arange(0, dim, 2, dtype=torch.float32) / dim))
    if original_seq_len > 0:
        # the dim whose wavelength completes `rotations` turns over the training context
        def corrected_dim(rotations):
            return dim * math.log(original_seq_len / (rotations * 2 * math.pi)) / (2 * math.log(base))

        low = max(math.floor(corrected_dim(beta_fast)), 0)
        high = min(math.ceil(corrected_dim(beta_slow)), dim - 1)
        ramp = ((torch.arange(dim // 2, dtype=torch.float32) - low) / max(high - low, 1e-3)).clamp(0, 1)
        smooth = 1 - ramp
        freqs = freqs / factor * (1 - smooth) + freqs * smooth

    freqs = torch.outer(torch.arange(seqlen), freqs)
    return torch.polar(torch.ones_like(freqs), freqs)


def apply_rotary_emb(x: torch.Tensor, freqs_cis: torch.Tensor, inverse: bool = False) -> torch.Tensor:
    """Rotate `x` in place, taking adjacent element pairs as complex numbers. Accepts [b, s, d] and
    [b, s, h, d]; `inverse` conjugates the rotation, which is how the attention output gets the
    query's rotation removed again so the cache can stay in one shared rotated form."""
    y = x
    x = torch.view_as_complex(x.float().unflatten(-1, (-1, 2)))
    if inverse:
        freqs_cis = freqs_cis.conj()
    if x.ndim == 3:
        freqs_cis = freqs_cis.view(1, x.size(1), x.size(-1))
    else:
        freqs_cis = freqs_cis.view(1, x.size(1), 1, x.size(-1))
    x = torch.view_as_real(x * freqs_cis).flatten(-2)
    y.copy_(x)
    return y