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DeepSeek-V2

DeepSeek-V2: A Strong, Economical, and Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Language Model

Project last updated:09/25/24

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Why we included this project

If you're shopping for open-weight models you can actually self-host, DeepSeek-V2 is worth a close look. The repo ships weights for both the full 236B-parameter model and a 16B Lite variant, with base and chat checkpoints, so you can match the size to your hardware. Its two headline ideas, Multi-head Latent Attention and a sparse MoE layout that only activates a fraction of parameters per token, directly cut inference cost and KV-cache memory, which is what determines how many GPUs you'll need. The README's benchmark tables across English, Chinese, math, and coding, plus a vLLM integration for serving, make it a practical baseline when you're comparing open models for a real deployment.

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