antirez: DeepSeek v4 Flash benchmarks untrustworthy due to DSpark speculative decoding
antirez · x · 2026-08-14
Redis creator antirez argues that DeepSeek v4 Flash benchmarks are unreliable because of DSpark speculative decoding, which makes results highly dependent on the generated content (extreme case: counting from 1 to 100). He urges publishing numbers without DFlash to build trust.
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