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Deepseek.cpp. Run DeepSeek AI models on your computer without a graphics card.

github.com/andrewkchan/deepseek.cpp

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Updates

October 2025
  • tested v3.1, terminus
  • type union operator unsupported for python<3.10
June 2025
  • add nucleus (top-p) sampling
May 2025
  • quality info and known issues
  • add v3 encoded wikitext
  • rename
  • add cli arg -w to use wikitext in perplexity mode
  • test perplexity with 1 v2-lite-encoded chunk of wikitext-2
  • half chunk size
  • add --bsize arg to convert.py to allow configuring f8e5m2 block size
  • apply attn sinks + rotation if past original_max_position_embeddings
  • add rope scaling params to file format
  • add tool to dump debug_map in HF safetensors format
  • expose dump_debug_map
  • add better err msg for perplexity mode
  • (non-back-compat) remove cap on max_seq_len and read it from tokenize…
  • this was accidentally deleted in a refactor
  • fix bugs with f16/f32, v2-lite active_bytes
  • oops
  • refactor active_bytes (should also fix bugs w.r.t. dense layers)