Thanks for the correction, my logic for comparing defaults in config was a bit faulty In general, the thing to note here is that they switched the MoE gate function to Sigmoid (instead of Softmax) – interestingly they tried this in DeepSeekVL earlier. In addition they have a
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2024 Achievements: Master’s Degree, NeurIPS Paper, Research Associate
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2024 wrapped – Completed master of science in engineering AI at Carnegie Mellon
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DeepSeek V3 now on HuggingFace
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Besides that, DeepSeek V3 is now available on HuggingFace https://
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DeepSeek v3 ranks best open-weight LLM in LiveBench
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LiveBench reported by r/LocalLlama – DeepSeek v3 is the BEST open weight LLM AND SECOND BEST non-reasoning LLM after `gemini-exp-1206`
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Model Checkpoint Configuration Values Analysis
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digging into config.json of both the model checkpoint here, these are actual values picked up by the model vs, defaults above:
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Comparing MoE Architecture: v3 vs v2.5 Model Configurations
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Looking at the config.json for both the models:
v3 (left) vs v2.5 (right) Interesting things: MoE related:
v3: "moe_intermediate_size": 2048, "n_routed_experts": 256, "n_shared_experts": 1, "num_experts_per_tok": 8 v2: "moe_intermediate_size": 1536, "n_routed_experts": 160, -
AI Community Wishlist: TTS, Whisper, GPT-3.5 Architecture
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here's my wishlist: 1. Text to Speech backbone (even a nerfed version would do tbh)
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Exploring DeepSeek Chat: Local AI Alternatives Comparison
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Understanding noaux_tc Expert Selection Method with DeepSeek
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Working w/ DeepSeek to understand the `noaux_tc` method (very meta) It essentially is a group-based approach to select experts, where experts are divided into groups, and the top-k experts are selected within each group Step by step explanation via DS