Instructions to use deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 with Transformers:

# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper
from transformers import pipeline

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731")

# pip install -U transformers accelerate
# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731", device_map="auto")

Inference
HuggingChat
Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings

vLLM

How to use deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 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-0731"
# 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-0731",
		"prompt": "Once upon a time,",
		"max_tokens": 512,
		"temperature": 0.5
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731

SGLang

How to use deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 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-0731" \
    --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-0731",
		"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-0731" \
        --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-0731",
		"prompt": "Once upon a time,",
		"max_tokens": 512,
		"temperature": 0.5
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
```

Tool-calling instruction is not consistently followed

#37

by xuzhanxin - opened Aug 3

Discussion

xuzhanxin

Aug 3

•

edited Aug 3

Summary

In an IM agent workflow, the system prompt explicitly requires the model to call send_text, send_voice, or send_sticker for every user-visible reply, and forbids direct assistant text.

The request included the tools and used tool_choice=auto. With deepseek-v4-flash, the model returned a normal assistant message (output.type=message, phase=final_answer) with no tool call. After the application added a protocol error instructing it to call a tool, the model returned ordinary text again. Only on the third attempt did it emit a send_text function call.

The same workflow works correctly with mimo-v2.5.

Expected behavior

When the system prompt requires a tool call, the model should emit a function/tool call instead of a plain text final answer.

Actual behavior

The model ignored the tool-calling instruction twice and produced plain text with tool_calls=[]. Because plain assistant text is not delivered by the application, this causes retries and delayed or missing user messages.

xuzhanxin

Aug 3

•

edited Aug 3

Additional comparison: qwen3.7-flash also follows the tool-calling instruction correctly in the same workflow. In our tests, the issue is reproducible consistently only with the DeepSeek model.

benbenseal

Aug 5

I have to disable --speculative-config DSpark k=7/greedy

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