DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017 for Dwarfstar (ds4)
Hey y'all, just following up on my PR to get the new vision tower for 1017 working in ds4 with the quant I promised (the language model loads already, but vision needed my PR).
Proof1 community thread
Key points
- I built to the exact same recipe antirez used for his original DS4.1 Q2: 2-bit routed experts with 8-bit or higher for everything else, combined with the original FP8 engram table.
- This worked well for the original DS4.1, and initial testing looks good here too.
- The imatrix is built from 1017, not the original checkpoint.
- The ~200GB engram table is paged in from SSD on-demand, not held in RAM.
Sources (1)
- [1]DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017 for Dwarfstar (ds4)r/LocalLLaMA (top, daily) · Oct 18, 04:12 AM
Hey y'all, just following up on my PR to get the new vision tower for 1017 working in ds4 with the quant I promised (the language model loads already, but vision needed my PR).
I built to the exact same recipe antirez used for his original DS4.1 Q2: 2-bit routed experts with 8-bit or higher for everything else, combined with the original FP8 engram table.
Extractive summary: sentences quoted from the sources.
Before this
- Oct 18, 2026DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 on 2x DGX Spark: 57 tok/s text, 92 tok/s code with TensorFold (2.1-2.3x the vLLM kit)
- Oct 17, 2026DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 vs V4.1 Flash, Pi vs DeepSeek Harness: results on my 10 coding tasks
- Oct 17, 2026DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 Support for ds4 · PR #1225 · antirez/ds4
- Oct 17, 2026Fish Audio Drama 3 says it needs a 48 GB NVIDIA card. My 16 GB Radeon disagrees.
- Oct 17, 2026deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017
- Oct 15, 2026StepFun Releases Step 5 Preview Open Weights: 600B MoE, 27B Active, 1M Context
