Image-Text-to-Text
Transformers
Safetensors
deepseek_v4
text-generation
Eval Results
8-bit precision
fp8
Instructions to use deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- Transformers
How to use deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp with Transformers:
# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper from transformers import pipeline pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp")# Load model directly from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp") model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp", device_map="auto") - Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
- Local Apps Settings
- vLLM
How to use deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp with vLLM:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install vLLM from pip: pip install vllm # Start the vLLM server: vllm serve "deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp" # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp", "prompt": "Once upon a time,", "max_tokens": 512, "temperature": 0.5 }'Use Docker
docker model run hf.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp
- SGLang
How to use deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp with SGLang:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install SGLang from pip: pip install sglang # Start the SGLang server: python3 -m sglang.launch_server \ --model-path "deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp" \ --host 0.0.0.0 \ --port 30000 # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp", "prompt": "Once upon a time,", "max_tokens": 512, "temperature": 0.5 }'Use Docker images
docker run --gpus all \ --shm-size 32g \ -p 30000:30000 \ -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \ --env "HF_TOKEN=<secret>" \ --ipc=host \ lmsysorg/sglang:latest \ python3 -m sglang.launch_server \ --model-path "deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp" \ --host 0.0.0.0 \ --port 30000 # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp", "prompt": "Once upon a time,", "max_tokens": 512, "temperature": 0.5 }' - Docker Model Runner
How to use deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp with Docker Model Runner:
docker model run hf.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp
| import base64 | |
| import io | |
| import math | |
| from dataclasses import dataclass | |
| from urllib.request import urlopen | |
| import numpy as np | |
| import torch | |
| from PIL import Image, ImageOps | |
| IMAGE_START, IMAGE_PAD, IMAGE, IMAGE_NEW_LINE, IMAGE_END = range(5) | |
| COMPRESS_PAD_TO = 4 | |
| class ImageInput: | |
| start: int | |
| patches: torch.Tensor | |
| n_vit_h: int | |
| n_vit_w: int | |
| types: torch.Tensor | |
| perm: torch.Tensor | |
| def grid_tokens(best_height, best_width, patch_size, downsample_ratio): | |
| """Number of LLM tokens the aligner grid occupies (N-layout, incl. row/align padding).""" | |
| n_llm_h = math.ceil((best_height // patch_size) / downsample_ratio) | |
| n_llm_w = math.ceil((best_width // patch_size) / downsample_ratio) | |
| num_tokens = n_llm_h * (n_llm_w + 1) + 2 | |
| if n_llm_h % 2 == 1: | |
| num_tokens += n_llm_w + 1 | |
| num_tokens += (n_llm_h + 1) // 2 * (n_llm_w + 1) % 2 * 2 | |
| return n_llm_h, n_llm_w, num_tokens | |
| def solve_resize_ratio(height, width, patch_size, downsample_ratio, max_n_token): | |
| r = height / width | |
| max_w_float = math.sqrt((max_n_token - 2) / r + 0.25) - 0.5 | |
| max_h_float = max_w_float * r | |
| if max_w_float < 1.0: | |
| max_w = 1 | |
| max_h = (max_n_token - 2) // (max_w + 1) | |
| if max_h % 2 == 1: | |
| max_h -= 1 | |
| best_width = max_w * patch_size * downsample_ratio | |
| best_height = max_h * patch_size * downsample_ratio | |
| elif max_h_float < 2.0: | |
| max_h = 2 | |
| max_w = ((max_n_token - 2) // max_h) - 1 | |
| assert max_w > 1 | |
| best_width = max_w * patch_size * downsample_ratio | |
| best_height = max_h * patch_size * downsample_ratio | |
| else: | |
| max_w = math.floor(max_w_float) | |
| max_h = math.floor(max_h_float) | |
| if max_h % 2 == 1: | |
| max_h -= 1 | |
| beta = min(max_w * patch_size * downsample_ratio / width, max_h * patch_size * downsample_ratio / height) | |
| best_width = math.floor(width * beta / patch_size) * patch_size | |
| best_height = math.floor(height * beta / patch_size) * patch_size | |
| n_llm_h, n_llm_w, num_tokens = grid_tokens(best_height, best_width, patch_size, downsample_ratio) | |
| return n_llm_h, n_llm_w, best_height, best_width, num_tokens | |
| def safe_resize(height, width, best_height, best_width, patch_size, downsample_ratio, max_n_token): | |
| max_n_token -= COMPRESS_PAD_TO - 1 | |
| n_llm_h, n_llm_w, num_tokens = grid_tokens(best_height, best_width, patch_size, downsample_ratio) | |
| budget = max_n_token | |
| while num_tokens > max_n_token: | |
| n_llm_h, n_llm_w, best_height, best_width, num_tokens = solve_resize_ratio( | |
| height, width, patch_size, downsample_ratio, budget) | |
| budget -= 1 | |
| return n_llm_h, n_llm_w, best_height, best_width | |
| def load_image_bytes(record) -> bytes: | |
| """Load image bytes from raw/base64 data, an Anthropic source, URL, or path.""" | |
| data = record.get("data") | |
| if isinstance(data, bytes): | |
| return data | |
| if isinstance(data, str): | |
| return base64.b64decode(data) | |
| source = record.get("source") | |
| if isinstance(source, dict): | |
| if source.get("data") is not None: | |
| return base64.b64decode(source["data"]) | |
| if source.get("url"): | |
| return load_image_bytes({"url": source["url"]}) | |
| url = record.get("url") | |
| if isinstance(url, str) and url: | |
| if url.startswith("data:"): | |
| header, _, payload = url.partition(",") | |
| if ";base64" not in header: | |
| raise ValueError(f"Unsupported data URL encoding: {header}") | |
| return base64.b64decode(payload) | |
| if url.startswith(("http://", "https://")): | |
| with urlopen(url, timeout=30) as response: | |
| return response.read() | |
| with open(url, "rb") as file: | |
| return file.read() | |
| raise ValueError(f"Cannot load image from record: {list(record.keys())}") | |
| def load_image(record, args): | |
| """Load and transform one image record into ViT patches.""" | |
| p = args.vision_patch_size | |
| with Image.open(io.BytesIO(load_image_bytes(record))) as source: | |
| image = source.convert("RGB") | |
| width, height = image.size | |
| if args.vision_max_wh_ratio is not None and width > height * args.vision_max_wh_ratio: | |
| width = height * args.vision_max_wh_ratio | |
| if 0 < width * height < args.vision_min_pixels: | |
| ratio = (args.vision_min_pixels / (width * height)) ** 0.5 | |
| width = int(width * ratio) | |
| height = int(height * ratio) | |
| best_width = math.ceil(width / p) * p | |
| best_height = math.ceil(height / p) * p | |
| n_llm_h, n_llm_w, best_height, best_width = safe_resize( | |
| height, width, best_height, best_width, p, args.vision_downsample_ratio, args.vision_max_n_token) | |
| n_vit_h, n_vit_w = best_height // p, best_width // p | |
| if args.vision_max_wh_ratio is not None and image.width >= args.vision_max_wh_ratio * image.height: | |
| image = image.resize((best_width, best_height)) | |
| else: | |
| image = ImageOps.pad(image, (best_width, best_height), color=(127, 127, 127)) | |
| x = torch.from_numpy(np.asarray(image, dtype=np.float32)).permute(2, 0, 1) / 255 | |
| x = ((x - 0.5) / 0.5).to(torch.bfloat16) | |
| patches = x.reshape(3, n_vit_h, p, n_vit_w, p).permute(1, 3, 0, 2, 4).reshape(n_vit_h * n_vit_w, 3, p, p) | |
| return patches, n_vit_h, n_vit_w, n_llm_h, n_llm_w | |
| def build_image_block(n_llm_h: int, n_llm_w: int, start_pos: int): | |
| """Builds the N-layout token types (final order) and the aligner-row order for IMAGE slots.""" | |
| compress_pad = COMPRESS_PAD_TO - 1 - start_pos % COMPRESS_PAD_TO | |
| pad_h = n_llm_h % 2 | |
| rows = n_llm_h + pad_h | |
| row_len = n_llm_w + 1 | |
| pad_last = rows // 2 * row_len % 2 * 2 | |
| types = torch.tensor(([IMAGE] * n_llm_w + [IMAGE_NEW_LINE]) * n_llm_h + [IMAGE_PAD] * (row_len * pad_h), dtype=torch.int64) | |
| order = torch.arange(rows * row_len).view(rows // 2, 2, row_len).transpose(1, 2).reshape(-1) | |
| image_idx = torch.full((rows * row_len,), -1, dtype=torch.int64) | |
| image_idx.view(rows, row_len)[:n_llm_h, :n_llm_w] = torch.arange(n_llm_h * n_llm_w).view(n_llm_h, n_llm_w) | |
| perm = image_idx[order] | |
| perm = perm[perm >= 0] | |
| types = torch.cat([ | |
| torch.full((compress_pad,), IMAGE_PAD, dtype=torch.int64), | |
| torch.tensor([IMAGE_START]), | |
| types[order], | |
| torch.full((pad_last,), IMAGE_PAD, dtype=torch.int64), | |
| torch.tensor([IMAGE_END]), | |
| ]) | |
| return types, perm | |
| def prepare_vl_inputs(prompt, images, tokenizer, args): | |
| """Expand image placeholder tokens into sentinel blocks and ImageInput values.""" | |
| from encoding_dsv4 import IMAGE_PLACEHOLDER | |
| image_token_id = tokenizer.convert_tokens_to_ids(IMAGE_PLACEHOLDER) | |
| if image_token_id is None or image_token_id == tokenizer.unk_token_id: | |
| raise ValueError(f"Token not found in tokenizer: {IMAGE_PLACEHOLDER}") | |
| prompt_tokens = tokenizer.encode(prompt) | |
| num_placeholders = sum(token == image_token_id for token in prompt_tokens) | |
| if num_placeholders != len(images): | |
| raise ValueError( | |
| f"Found {num_placeholders} image tokens but got {len(images)} images") | |
| tokens, image_inputs = [], [] | |
| image_iter = iter(images) | |
| for tok in prompt_tokens: | |
| if tok != image_token_id: | |
| tokens.append(tok) | |
| continue | |
| patches, n_vit_h, n_vit_w, n_llm_h, n_llm_w = load_image( | |
| next(image_iter), args) | |
| types, perm = build_image_block(n_llm_h, n_llm_w, len(tokens)) | |
| image_inputs.append(ImageInput(len(tokens), patches, n_vit_h, n_vit_w, types, perm)) | |
| tokens += (args.vocab_size + types).tolist() | |
| if not image_inputs: | |
| return tokens, None | |
| return tokens, image_inputs | |