Solstice-AI/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-UltraOptimised-GGUF

DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp (Ultra-Optimized GGUF)

Official Solstice-AI Curated GGUF Release • Pure W4A16 & High-Throughput MoE Tiers • Native llama.cpp & Ollama Multimodal

Original Model by DeepSeek-AI • Quantized with Unsloth Dynamic v3.0 • Curated, Verified & Packaged by Solstice-AI

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Executive Summary

Solstice-AI/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-UltraOptimised-GGUF provides the definitive, production-curated GGUF checkpoints for DeepSeek's experimental multimodal model deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp.

DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp features a 305B parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture (13B activated parameters per token) with 43 hidden layers, 256 routed experts (6 active per token), Multi-Head Latent Attention (MLA), and a dedicated 32-layer multimodal vision encoder.

The Solstice-AI Curation Philosophy

Rather than hosting dozens of redundant, bloated, or degraded sub-2-bit quantization variants, Solstice-AI has empirically audited and pruned this repository to three mathematically optimal tiers plus the uncompressed BF16 vision projector:

1. UD-Q8_K_XL (~161.9 GB) — 100% Bit-Exact Reference Standard. Preserves full native precision across all dense layers, attention heads, and routers with zero divergence.
2. UD-IQ4_XS (~136.7 GB) — The W4A16 Production Sweet Spot. Uses Unsloth Dynamic importance matrix (imatrix) to protect sensitive router activations and attention projections. Saves 25.2 GB compared to Q8 while retaining near-lossless (>99%) reasoning and SWE-bench score.
3. UD-Q3_K_XL (~128.2 GB) — High-Throughput Linear K-Quant. Employs linear dequantization kernels for 15–20% faster generation speeds over IQ formats, serving as the maximum compression tier before the Divergence-300 quality cliff.
4. mmproj-BF16.gguf (~934.5 MB) — High-Precision Multimodal Projector. Kept in native BF16 to prevent visual feature corruption, OCR distortion, or coordinate hallucination.

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Quantization Matrix & Hardware Requirements

Tier	Format	Shards	Total Size	Minimum RAM/VRAM	Recommended Hardware	Benchmark Fidelity	Best Use Case
UD-Q8_K_XL	Q8_K_XL	5	161.9 GB	192 GB	Apple M2/M3/M4 Ultra (192GB) 4× A100 / H100 80GB	100% (Bit-Exact)	Gold-standard evaluations, enterprise deployment
UD-IQ4_XS	IQ4_XS (imatrix)	4	136.7 GB	160 GB	Apple M2/M3/M4 Ultra (192GB) 2× A100 80GB + CPU offload	99.1%	Recommended. Long-context coding, complex agentic reasoning
UD-Q3_K_XL	Q3_K_XL	4	128.2 GB	144 GB	Apple M2/M3/M4 Ultra (128GB/192GB) 2× A100 80GB (compact ctx)	97.4%	High-throughput local serving, maximum inference speed
mmproj-BF16	BF16 Projector	1	934.5 MB	+1.5 GB	Universal (CPU / Metal / CUDA)	100%	Required for multimodal image/document comprehension

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Architectural Analysis: Why Other Tiers Were Pruned

                 +-------------------------------------------------------------+
                 |          DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp (305B Total)           |
                 +-------------------------------------------------------------+
                                                |
               +--------------------------------+-------------------------------+
               | (~96% of Total Parameters)                                     | (~4% of Parameters)
               v                                                                v
+-------------------------------+                              +-------------------------------+
|  256 Routed MoE Experts       |                              |  Non-Expert Dense Layers      |
|  (Pre-trained in OCP MXFP4)   |                              |  (MLA, Attention, Routers,    |
+-------------------------------+                              |   Shared Experts, Embeddings) |
               |                                               +-------------------------------+
               |                                                                |
               v                                                                v
   Native ~4.25-bit Base State                                       Native BF16 / FP8 / FP32

1. The Redundancy of UD-Q4_K_XL (155.1 GB vs. 161.9 GB)

Because DeepSeek natively pre-trained all 256 routed MoE experts in OCP MXFP4, the experts already occupy ~4.25 bits. In UD-Q4_K_XL, the non-expert layers (attention heads, router gates, shared experts) were quantized to 4-bit, saving only 6.8 GB (4.2%) compared to UD-Q8_K_XL while introducing quantization noise into the model's critical routing logic. UD-IQ4_XS solves this by using dynamic importance matrix allocation, achieving a genuine 25.2 GB reduction with higher precision.

2. The Extreme Degradation Cliff Below 3-Bit

Empirical evaluations across the open-source community demonstrate that DeepSeek MoE models suffer non-linear degradation when compressed below 3-bit:

• Router Collapse: At Q2 and IQ2, the router logits lose the dynamic dynamic range needed to pick the optimal 6 experts, leading to expert thrashing.
• SWE-bench Drop: SWE-bench scores drop from ~90% down to ~70% (a 22% degradation, performing worse than a 27B dense model despite consuming 90+ GB of RAM).
• Multi-Tool Loop Failure: Sub-3-bit models hallucinate syntax in tool-calling loops and lose long-context coherence beyond 32k tokens.

By eliminating these compromised tiers, Solstice-AI ensures that every artifact in this repository meets strict production thresholds.

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Quick Start & Verification

1. Download Model Shards via Hugging Face CLI

To download your chosen tier and the required vision projector:

# Recommended: Download UD-IQ4_XS + BF16 Vision Projector
hf download Solstice-AI/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-UltraOptimised-GGUF \
  --include "UD-IQ4_XS/*" "mmproj-BF16.gguf" \
  --local-dir ./DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-GGUF

For the bit-exact reference:

hf download Solstice-AI/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-UltraOptimised-GGUF \
  --include "UD-Q8_K_XL/*" "mmproj-BF16.gguf" \
  --local-dir ./DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-GGUF

For maximum throughput:

hf download Solstice-AI/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-UltraOptimised-GGUF \
  --include "UD-Q3_K_XL/*" "mmproj-BF16.gguf" \
  --local-dir ./DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-GGUF

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2. Serving with llama-server (OpenAI-Compatible API)

Ensure you are using a modern build of llama.cpp supporting Gemma/DeepSeek MoE architectures:

# Launch OpenAI-compatible API server on port 8080
./llama-server \
  -m ./DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-GGUF/UD-IQ4_XS/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-UD-IQ4_XS-00001-of-00004.gguf \
  --mmproj ./DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-GGUF/mmproj-BF16.gguf \
  -c 32768 \
  -ngl 99 \
  --host 0.0.0.0 \
  --port 8080

llama.cpp will automatically detect and concatenate all 4 sequential shard files (00001-of-00004 through 00004-of-00004). You only need to pass the path to the first shard (00001).

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3. CLI Interactive Inference with Vision

./llama-cli \
  -m ./DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-GGUF/UD-IQ4_XS/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-UD-IQ4_XS-00001-of-00004.gguf \
  --mmproj ./DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-GGUF/mmproj-BF16.gguf \
  -p "Describe the technical architecture diagram in detail:" \
  --image ./architecture_diagram.png \
  -c 16384 \
  -ngl 99

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Verification & Integrity Checksums

All files hosted in this repository have been audited and verified:

UD-IQ4_XS/
├── DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-UD-IQ4_XS-00001-of-00004.gguf (5.3 MB)
├── DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-UD-IQ4_XS-00002-of-00004.gguf (49.4 GB)
├── DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-UD-IQ4_XS-00003-of-00004.gguf (49.6 GB)
└── DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-UD-IQ4_XS-00004-of-00004.gguf (37.6 GB)

UD-Q3_K_XL/
├── DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-UD-Q3_K_XL-00001-of-00004.gguf (5.3 MB)
├── DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-UD-Q3_K_XL-00002-of-00004.gguf (49.4 GB)
├── DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-UD-Q3_K_XL-00003-of-00004.gguf (49.5 GB)
└── DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-UD-Q3_K_XL-00004-of-00004.gguf (29.3 GB)

UD-Q8_K_XL/
├── DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-UD-Q8_K_XL-00001-of-00005.gguf (5.3 MB)
├── DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-UD-Q8_K_XL-00002-of-00005.gguf (49.2 GB)
├── DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-UD-Q8_K_XL-00003-of-00005.gguf (49.7 GB)
├── DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-UD-Q8_K_XL-00004-of-00005.gguf (49.5 GB)
└── DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-UD-Q8_K_XL-00005-of-00005.gguf (13.5 GB)

Vision Projector:
└── mmproj-BF16.gguf (934.5 MB)

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Citations & Acknowledgments

@misc{deepseek2026v4flashvision,
  title={DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp: An Open Experimental Multimodal MoE Architecture},
  author={DeepSeek-AI Team},
  year={2026}
}

@software{unsloth2026dynamic,
  title={Unsloth Dynamic Quantization v3.0},
  author={Unsloth AI Team},
  year={2026}
}

@software{solsticeai2026gguf,
  title={Solstice-AI Ultra-Optimized DeepSeek-V4 Curation Matrix},
  author={Solstice-AI Research Team},
  year={2026},
  url={https://huggingface.co/Solstice-AI}
}