DeepSeek V4.1

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552B + 196B Engram
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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

First reading weights

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no parametersmake_identity_pre_mix(h, self.hc_mult) · 1260

Weights that select the first stream alone.

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X0X_0 [B batch, T positions, 4 streams, 5120 d]
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p0p_0 [B batch, T positions, 4 streams]
Codemodel.py 1159–1163, 1241–1272
model.py 1159–1163
def make_identity_pre_mix(x: torch.Tensor, hc_mult: int) -> torch.Tensor:
    """initial one-hot mix"""
    pre_mix = x.new_zeros(x.size(0), x.size(1), hc_mult, dtype=torch.float32)
    pre_mix[:, :, 0] = 1.0
    return pre_mix
model.py 1241–1272
    @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
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Direct evidence

The first reading mix selects the first stream alone.

identity-mix · deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash / inference/model.py
Pinned revision 2cba9e42aa02 ↗ · lines 1159–1163

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def make_identity_pre_mix(x: torch.Tensor, hc_mult: int) -> torch.Tensor:
    """initial one-hot mix"""
    pre_mix = x.new_zeros(x.size(0), x.size(1), hc_mult, dtype=torch.float32)
    pre_mix[:, :, 0] = 1.0
    return pre_mix

Direct evidence

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
Pinned revision 2cba9e42aa02 ↗ · lines 1241–1272

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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