DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Architecture: 552B MoE with Asymmetric 8B Read / 16B Decode Compute
demian_ai · x · 2026-09-11
A detailed breakdown of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash's architecture, designed to cut both compute and memory costs of a million-token context window.
Key points:
- Asymmetric compute budgets: a 552B-parameter MoE backbone activates 8B parameters per input token and 16B per output token — valuable for agents that consume long documents, repos, and tool results before producing short responses.
- Encoder supplies decoder memory: the 40-layer network splits into a 20-layer causal encoder and 20-layer decoder, with the decoder's global KV cache built from the encoder's final representations.
- Attention reuse: compressed sparse attention mechanisms reduce long-context overhead.
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