40 layers › 4 groups of 4 layers › Re-indexing layer
Compressed keys and values
×supplied · no parametersshared_attn
Borrowed from an earlier layer.
- shape
- [B batch, T compressed positions, 512 d_h]
Sources
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One object hands compressed keys and values, index keys, selected positions and candidates from a source layer to the layers after it.
shared · deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash / inference/model.py
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class SharedAttentionRuntime:
"""What attention layers hand down the stack instead of recomputing. Layers run in order and
every source writes before its consumers read, so one slot each is enough and nothing needs
resetting between forwards. Sources: compress_kv and index_k from kv_source_layers, topk_idxs
from index_source_layers, candidates from candidate_source_layer."""
def __init__(self):
self.compress_kv: torch.Tensor | None = None
self.index_k: torch.Tensor | None = None
self.topk_idxs: torch.Tensor | None = None
self.candidates: torch.Tensor | None = None
# Only ever one model per process, same as world_size / rank / default_dtype above.
shared_attn = SharedAttentionRuntime()Contextual evidence from Token group
A key–value source compresses its own input and writes the shared cache; an index source runs its indexer before the latent is rotated; every other layer reads what the nearest earlier source published.
attention-compress · deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash / inference/model.py
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def _compress_topk_idxs(self, x, qr, latent, start_pos, offset, compress_len):
"""Which compressed positions each query attends to. Index sources run their own indexer;
the layers in between reuse the result their source published."""
if not self.is_index_source:
return shared_attn.topk_idxs
bsz, seqlen, _ = x.size()
if compress_len == 0:
idxs = torch.empty(bsz, seqlen, 0, dtype=torch.int32, device=x.device)
else:
assert self.indexer is not None
if self.indexer.freqs_cis is None:
self.indexer.freqs_cis = self.freqs_cis
idxs = self.indexer(x, qr, latent, start_pos, offset)
shared_attn.topk_idxs = idxs
return idxs
def _compress_kv(self, x, qr, start_pos, offset):
"""The shared compressed KV and the compressed positions every query may attend to. This
layer compresses its own KV only when it is a source; otherwise it just reads the cache."""
bsz, seqlen, _ = x.size()
ratio = self.compress_ratio
compress_len = (start_pos + seqlen) // ratio
latent = None
if self.is_kv_source:
latent = self.compressor(x, start_pos)
shared_attn.compress_kv = self.compress_kv_cache
# the indexer needs the latent before RoPE, so it runs before the cache is written
idxs = self._compress_topk_idxs(x, qr, latent, start_pos, offset, compress_len)
if latent is not None:
# a latent stands for the first token of its group, so group j takes position j * ratio
freqs = (
self.freqs_cis[: seqlen - seqlen % ratio : ratio]
if start_pos == 0
else self.freqs_cis[start_pos + 1 - ratio].unsqueeze(0)
)
apply_rotary_emb(latent[..., -self.rope_head_dim :], freqs)
# Compressed KV uses groups of 16 with E4M3 scales; the indexer uses 32 with E8M0.
fp4_act_quant(latent, 16, True, scale_dtype=torch.float8_e4m3fn)
self.compress_kv_cache[:bsz, start_pos // ratio : start_pos // ratio + latent.size(1)] = latent
# read after the write, so this does not depend on the slice aliasing the cache
return shared_attn.compress_kv[:bsz, :compress_len], idxsContextual evidence from Token group
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 Re-indexing 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 Re-indexing 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_preContextual evidence from Re-indexing 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)Contextual evidence from Compressed sparse attention
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
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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)Contextual evidence from Compressed sparse attention
Queries through the latent with their rotary part rotated; window and compressed keys and values joined; sparse attention over the listed positions; the output rotated back, projected per group of heads and then to the model width.
attention-forward · deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash / inference/model.py
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def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor, start_pos: int):
bsz, seqlen, _ = x.size()
freqs_cis = self.freqs_cis[start_pos : start_pos + seqlen]
rd = self.rope_head_dim
qr = self.q_norm(self.wq_a(x))
q = self.wq_b(qr).unflatten(-1, (self.n_local_heads, self.head_dim))
apply_rotary_emb(q[..., -rd:], freqs_cis)
kv, topk_idxs = self._window_kv(x, freqs_cis, start_pos)
if self.compress_ratio:
compress_kv, compress_idxs = self._compress_kv(x, qr, start_pos, kv.size(1))
kv = torch.cat([kv, compress_kv], dim=1)
topk_idxs = torch.cat([topk_idxs, compress_idxs], dim=-1)
o = sparse_attn(q, kv, self.attn_sink, topk_idxs, self.softmax_scale)
apply_rotary_emb(o[..., -rd:], freqs_cis, True)
# wo_a is block-diagonal over groups (each projects only its own heads), hence einsum not
# Linear. convert.py dequantizes it to bf16; an fp8 grouped GEMM would halve the memory.
o = o.view(bsz, seqlen, self.n_local_groups, -1)
wo_a = self.wo_a.weight.view(self.n_local_groups, self.o_lora_rank, -1)
o = torch.einsum("bsgd,grd->bsgr", o, wo_a)
x = self.wo_b(o.flatten(2))
return x