Instructions to use unsloth/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-GGUF with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use unsloth/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-GGUF with Transformers:

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoModel
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("unsloth/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-GGUF", device_map="auto")

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings

llama.cpp

How to use unsloth/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-GGUF with llama.cpp:

Install (macOS, Linux)

curl -LsSf https://llama.app/install.sh | sh
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI:
llama serve -hf unsloth/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL
# Run inference directly in the terminal:
llama cli -hf unsloth/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL

Install from WinGet (Windows)

winget install llama.cpp
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI:
llama serve -hf unsloth/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL
# Run inference directly in the terminal:
llama cli -hf unsloth/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL

Use pre-built binary

# Download pre-built binary from:
# https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/releases
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI:
./llama-server -hf unsloth/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL
# Run inference directly in the terminal:
./llama-cli -hf unsloth/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL

Build from source code

git clone https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp.git
cd llama.cpp
cmake -B build
cmake --build build -j --target llama-server llama-cli
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI:
./build/bin/llama-server -hf unsloth/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL
# Run inference directly in the terminal:
./build/bin/llama-cli -hf unsloth/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL

LM Studio
Jan
Ollama
How to use unsloth/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-GGUF with Ollama:
```
ollama run hf.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL
```
Unsloth Desktop

How to use unsloth/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-GGUF with Pi:

Start the llama.cpp server

# Install llama.cpp:
brew install llama.cpp
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server:
llama serve -hf unsloth/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL

Configure the model in Pi

# Install Pi:
npm install -g @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent
# Add to ~/.pi/agent/models.json:
{
  "providers": {
    "llama-cpp": {
      "baseUrl": "http://localhost:8080/v1",
      "api": "openai-completions",
      "apiKey": "none",
      "models": [
        {
          "id": "unsloth/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Run Pi

# Start Pi in your project directory:
pi

Docker Model Runner
How to use unsloth/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-GGUF with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL
```

Lemonade

How to use unsloth/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-GGUF with Lemonade:

Pull the model

# Download Lemonade from https://lemonade-server.ai/
lemonade pull unsloth/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL

Run and chat with the model

lemonade run user.DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-GGUF-UD-Q4_K_XL

List all available models

lemonade list

Hermes Agent

How to use unsloth/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-GGUF with Hermes Agent:

Start the llama.cpp server

# Install llama.cpp:
brew install llama.cpp
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server:
llama serve -hf unsloth/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL

Configure Hermes

# Install Hermes:
curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash
hermes setup
# Point Hermes at the local server:
hermes config set model.provider custom
hermes config set model.base_url http://127.0.0.1:8080/v1
hermes config set model.default unsloth/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL

Run Hermes

hermes

Atomic Chat

OpenClaw

How to use unsloth/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-GGUF with OpenClaw:

Start the llama.cpp server

# Install llama.cpp:
brew install llama.cpp
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server:
llama serve -hf unsloth/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL

Configure OpenClaw

# Install OpenClaw:
npm install -g openclaw@latest
# Register the local server and set it as the default model:
openclaw onboard --non-interactive --mode local \
  --auth-choice custom-api-key \
  --custom-base-url http://127.0.0.1:8080/v1 \
  --custom-model-id "unsloth/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL" \
  --custom-provider-id llama-cpp \
  --custom-compatibility openai \
  --custom-text-input \
  --accept-risk \
  --skip-health

Run OpenClaw

openclaw agent --local --agent main --message "Hello from Hugging Face"

Read our How to Run DeepSeek-V4 Guide!

Unsloth Dynamic 3.0 achieves superior accuracy & outperforms other leading quants.

To run DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp in full precision lossless, run Q8 (UD-Q8_K_XL), which is 162GB and only 7GB bigger than Q4 (UD-Q4_K_XL).
See our DeepSeek-V4 guide for quantization analysis and instructions.
You can now run DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp in Unsloth Studio with toggles for High and Max thinking.

deepseek-v4-flash-0731 in unsloth studio

DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp

Image input requires llama.cpp PR #28133, which is not yet merged, so build llama.cpp from that branch to run these GGUFs with images.

Introduction

We are excited to introduce DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, our first experimental multimodal model in the DeepSeek-V4 family. It builds on the DeepSeek-V4-Flash architecture by incorporating visual modules and undergoing continued training to unlock visual understanding capabilities.

Compared to DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731, DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp achieves substantial improvements on its multimodal agent capabilities, while maintaining comparable performance on text-only agent tasks.

Benchmark	DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp	DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731	Opus-4.8
Text Agent Capabilities
Terminal Bench 2.1	83.9	82.7	85.0
NL2Repo	57.7	54.2	69.7
Cybergym	75.3	76.7	78.3
DeepSWE	59.3	54.4	58.0
Toolathlon-Verified	75.9	70.3	76.2
DSBench-Hard	63.6	59.6	71.7
AutomationBench (Public)	25.7	25.1	27.2
Multimodal Agent Capabilities
ApexBench (Pass@1)	36.5	26.2†	39.4
Agents' Last Exam	27.3	25.2†	25.7
Chartography	64.3	-	65.0
ZeroBench (Pass@5)	35.0	-	34.0

Notes:

For the text agent benchmarks above, DeepSeek models are evaluated with the minimal mode of DeepSeek Harness as the agent framework, using the max reasoning effort level with temperature = 1.0, top_p = 0.95.
† For ApexBench and Agents' Last Exam, DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 ignores the multimodal elements in the input.

Repository layout

This repository contains the tokenizer, prompt encoding reference, and a minimal PyTorch inference implementation for DeepSeek-V4 Flash Vision. The reference inference covers the vision encoder and aligner, DFlash attention, MoE, Hyper-Connections, and the DSpark forward path.

.
├── encoding/                  # OpenAI-style messages -> model prompt
├── inference/                 # weight conversion and minimal inference
│   └── examples/              # equivalent TXT and JSON vision prompts
├── config.json                # Hugging Face model metadata
├── generation_config.json
├── model.safetensors.index.json
├── tokenizer.json
└── tokenizer_config.json

encoding/ and inference/ deliberately remain separate: prompt formatting does not depend on PyTorch, while inference imports the sibling encoding module with an explicit Python path. No symlinks are required.

The tokenizer files are regular files so that the repository can be uploaded to Hugging Face without relying on local filesystem symlinks. The large model shards are described by model.safetensors.index.json and are not duplicated inside the source checkout used to assemble this repository.

Prompt encoding

See encoding/README.md. Both OpenAI-style JSON content blocks and the compact <image>path</image> TXT notation are supported. The two examples under inference/examples/ encode to identical prompts and token IDs.

Minimal inference

See inference/README.md for dependency installation, checkpoint conversion, and TXT/JSON inference commands.

License

This repository is licensed under the MIT License.

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