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DeepSeek-0628

Available as managed deployment Licence fee LLMs deepseek-ai Text gen 1 variants 4k dl/mo

DeepSeek-0628 is an open-weight language model from deepseek-ai. AxForge deploys and operates it for you on dedicated EU-owned hardware — with the licence handled where one is required.

Available as managed deployment — configured and operated for you on dedicated EU hardware, quoted per deployment.

What it is

Makerdeepseek-ai
TypeLanguage models
TaskText gen
Parameters (lead)235.7B
Context160k tokens
Runs withtransformers
Released2024-07-18
Popularity4k downloads / month
LicenceCommercial licence needed

About

What DeepSeek-0628 is

1. Introduction

DeepSeek-V2-Chat-0628 is an improved version of DeepSeek-V2-Chat. For model details, please visit DeepSeek-V2 page for more information.

DeepSeek-V2-Chat-0628 has achieved remarkable performance on the LMSYS Chatbot Arena Leaderboard:

Overall Ranking: #11, outperforming all other open-source models.

Coding Arena Ranking: #3, showcasing exceptional capabilities in coding tasks.

Hard Prompts Arena Ranking: #3, demonstrating strong performance on challenging prompts.

2. Improvement

Compared to the previous version DeepSeek-V2-Chat, the new version has made the following improvements:

BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2-ChatDeepSeek-V2-Chat-0628Improvement
HumanEval81.184.8+3.7
MATH53.971.0+17.1
BBH79.783.4+3.7
IFEval63.877.6+13.8
Arena-Hard41.668.3+26.7
JSON Output (Internal)7885+7

Furthermore, the instruction following capability in the "system" area has been optimized, significantly enhancing the user experience for immersive translation, RAG, and other tasks.

3. How to run locally

To utilize DeepSeek-V2-Chat-0628 in BF16 format for inference, 80GB*8 GPUs are required.

Inference with Huggingface's Transformers

You can directly employ Huggingface's Transformers for model inference.

import torch
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM, GenerationConfig

model_name = "deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V2-Chat-0628"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name, trust_remote_code=True)
# `max_memory` should be set based on your devices
max_memory = {i: "75GB" for i in range(8)}
# `device_map` cannot be set to `auto`
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_name, trust_remote_code=True, device_map="sequential", torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16, max_memory=max_memory, attn_implementation="eager")
model.generation_config = GenerationConfig.from_pretrained(model_name)
model.generation_config.pad_token_id = model.generation_config.eos_token_id

messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Write a piece of quicksort code in C++"}
]
input_tensor = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(messages, add_generation_prompt=True, return_tensors="pt")
outputs = model.generate(input_tensor.to(model.device), max_new_tokens=100)

result = tokenizer.decode(outputs[0][input_tensor.shape[1]:], skip_special_tokens=True)
print(result)

The complete chat template can be found within tokenizer_config.json located in the huggingface model repository.

Note: The chat template has been updated compared to the previous DeepSeek-V2-Chat version.

An example of chat template is as belows:

You can also add an optional system message:


Inference with vLLM (recommended)

To utilize vLLM for model inference, please merge this Pull Request into your vLLM codebase: https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/4650.

from transformers import AutoTokenizer
from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams

max_model_len, tp_size = 8192, 8
model_name = "deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V2-Chat-0628"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)
llm = LLM(model=model_name, tensor_parallel_size=tp_size, max_model_len=max_model_len, trust_remote_code=True, enforce_eager=True)
sampling_params = SamplingParams(temperature=0.3, max_tokens=256, stop_token_ids=[tokenizer.eos_token_id])

messages_list = [
    [{"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"}],
    [{"role": "user", "content": "Translate the following content into Chinese directly: DeepSeek-V2 adopts innovative architectures to guarantee economical training and efficient inference."}],
    [{"role": "user", "content": "Write a piece of quicksort code in C++."}],
]

prompt_token_ids = [tokenizer.apply_chat_template(messages, add_generation_prompt=True) for messages in messages_list]

outputs = llm.generate(prompt_token_ids=prompt_token_ids, sampling_params=sampling_params)

generated_text = [output.outputs[0].text for output in outputs]
print(generated_text)

4. License

This code repository is licensed under the MIT License. The use of DeepSeek-V2 Base/Chat models is subject to the Model License. DeepSeek-V2 series (including Base and Chat) supports commercial use.

5. Citation

@misc{deepseekv2,
      title={DeepSeek-V2: A Strong, Economical, and Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Language Model},
      author={DeepSeek-AI},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2405.04434},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL}
}

6. Contact

If you have any questions, please raise an issue or contact us at service@deepseek.com.

From the published model card. Full card on the HuggingFace links in the sidebar.

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys deepseek-0628 for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (deepseek-0628 below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)

$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"deepseek-0628","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'

Create an account — your API key is available in the console. 5M tokens/month currently included with every new account at launch.

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