# DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp — 2× GB10 / DGX Spark, TP=2 (vision lane). # # Model: deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp (MIT) — DeepSeek's first # multimodal V4: 284B total / 13B active MoE, experts MXFP4, attention FP8, # 32-layer ViT (~0.47B BF16) + aligner, native ctx 1,048,576; 43+3 MoE # layers, DFlash attention, index_topk 512, fp8 block [128,128]. # Day-0 vision support lives in a vLLM PLUGIN (dsv4_vision) subclassing # DeepseekV4ForCausalLM so DSpark speculative still works; the plugin is # baked into our overlay image (docker-images/dsv4-flash-vision/, see its # UPSTREAM.md for provenance and the sfxnz repo @7a958128b84a). # # Image: dsv4-flash-vision:local — built from eugr/spark-vllm-b12x:latest # (digest sha256:7dc02f162929943ba2e14514066ed2a04bb7e9ed3592d4eb460ebcbb1f8376bd) # by default; the aidendle94/sparkrun-vllm-ds4-gb10:production-3.76.1 base # (sha256:39cda85c28a8795dc20a274fdabfece66f329d1e21c3f4552a7e75061ea8696a) # is the comparison variant for the same plugin (fork A/B). # # Model revision: 86f746b36186f0e567729a5c06a8c918caba82a9 (sfxnz pin). # # DEVIATIONS from the sfxnz run.sh defaults — all forced by our launcher: # * no --host/--port/--nnodes/--node-rank/--master-* (launcher fabric), # * no NCCL/* / IFACE / HCA env (launcher resolves; RoCE on sw fabric), # * weights from per-node local NVMe copies (`~/dsv4vision-hf`, 167 GiB # each on dgx3/dgx4 — rsync'd from the NAS hub 2026-09-01); shard load # drops from ~7 min (NAS) to well under a minute. Fallback: re-add the # `[[extra_mounts]] host = "/mnt/nas/ai/huggingface" … env = "HF_HOME"` # block below to stream from the NAS hub again. # VLLM_USE_B12X_MHC stays OFF (this checkpoint has rms_norm_eps 1e-20; the # fused Gram mHC kernel only accepts 1e-6 — upstream README). # # Boot markers: "vision" plugin registered line → "Model loading took …" # (~84 GiB/node) → "GPU KV cache size" ≈ 1.25M tokens → "Application # startup complete". Vision smoke: image_url content with the # <|deepseek_image|> placeholder (cap 384 tokens per image). # # PREREQUISITES: weights cached on the NAS hub once (168 GB): # docker run --rm --entrypoint python3 -v /mnt/nas/ai/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \ # glm53-flash-nvfp4-lab:local -c "from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download; \ # snapshot_download('deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp')" engine = "vllm" name = "DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision-Exp (vLLM, 2x Spark, DSpark-6)" docker_image = "dsv4-flash-vision:local" docker_image_dir = "dsv4-flash-vision" model = "deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp" required_nodes = 2 tensor_parallel_size = 2 pipeline_parallel_size = 1 distributed_backend = "mp" shm_size = "32gb" args = [ # Stable served name (quant-agnostic convention for the ds4-vision lane) "--served-model-name", "deepseek-v4-flash-vision", "--trust-remote-code", "--distributed-executor-backend", "mp", # sfxnz run.sh defaults (verbatim, minus launcher-managed fabric knobs) "--max-model-len", "1048576", "--kv-cache-dtype", "fp8", # their pin: "a 26 GiB community pin" is too big for this UMA leftover "--kv-cache-memory", "12884901888", "--gpu-memory-utilization", "0.80", "--max-num-seqs", "2", "--max-num-batched-tokens", "8192", "--block-size", "256", # Engine backends (B12X GB10 lane) "--moe-backend", "b12x", "--linear-backend", "b12x", "--attention-backend", "B12X_MLA_SPARSE", # DSpark-6 (k must be divisible by n_predict=3; DSpark-5 is rejected) "--speculative-config", """ '{"method":"dspark","num_speculative_tokens":6,"draft_sample_method":"probabilistic","attention_backend":"B12X_MLA_SPARSE"}'""", "--tokenizer-mode", "deepseek_v4", "--tool-call-parser", "deepseek_v4", "--enable-auto-tool-choice", "--reasoning-parser", "deepseek_v4", "--reasoning-config", """ '{"reasoning_parser":"deepseek_v4","reasoning_start_str":"","reasoning_end_str":""}'""", "--default-chat-template-kwargs", """ '{"thinking":false,"reasoning_effort":"low"}'""", "--limit-mm-per-prompt", """ '{"image":8}'""", "--enable-prefix-caching", # If the stock loader balloons passenger anon buffers while streaming # from the NAS (the EXL3 lesson, 3 kernel kills on a sibling kit), # flip this on: the overlay ships instanttensor==0.1.9 (no-deps). # "--load-format", "instanttensor", ] [env] # Vision + engine lane knobs (sfxnz run.sh, verbatim minus fabric) CUTE_DSL_ARCH = "sm_121a" # AOT compile stays ON for the text-only lane (verified). The experimental # VLLM_DSV4_MM=1 mode traces its embed path with a 2-D dummy and then rejects # the hc-stream 3-D form ("wrong number of dimensions3 for op: input") — # flip this to "0" when testing that mode. VLLM_USE_AOT_COMPILE = "1" VLLM_USE_BREAKABLE_CUDAGRAPH = "0" VLLM_USE_MEGA_AOT_ARTIFACT = "-1" VLLM_MEMORY_PROFILE_INCLUDE_ATTN = "1" VLLM_USE_FLASHINFER_SAMPLER = "1" VLLM_USE_B12X_WO_PROJECTION = "1" VLLM_USE_B12X_MHC = "0" VLLM_USE_B12X_FP8_GEMM = "1" VLLM_USE_B12X_MOE = "1" VLLM_USE_B12X_SPARSE_INDEXER = "1" VLLM_USE_V2_MODEL_RUNNER = "1" B12X_MLA_SM120_UNIFIED = "1" B12X_MOE_FORCE_A8 = "1" HF_HUB_OFFLINE = "1" TRANSFORMERS_OFFLINE = "1" VLLM_NO_USAGE_STATS = "1" # Weights from the shared NAS hub; JIT caches persist per node. # NOTE: extra_mounts stay AFTER args (TOML table headers would swallow the # args array otherwise). [[extra_mounts]] host = "~/dsv4vision-hf" container = "/opt/local-hf" env = "HF_HOME" # Weights from the shared NAS hub; JIT caches persist per node. # NOTE: extra_mounts stay AFTER args (TOML table headers would swallow the # args array otherwise). # [[extra_mounts]] # host = "/mnt/nas/ai/huggingface" # container = "/mnt/nas/ai/huggingface" # env = "HF_HOME" [[extra_mounts]] host = "~/.cache/dsv4vision-jit/triton" container = "/root/.triton" [[extra_mounts]] host = "~/.cache/dsv4vision-jit/flashinfer" container = "/root/.cache/flashinfer" [[extra_mounts]] host = "~/.cache/dsv4vision-jit/vllm" container = "/root/.cache/vllm"