DeepSeek-V3

DeepSeek-V3 is a large-scale Mixture-of-Experts model with 671B total parameters and 37B activated per token. It features Multi-head Latent Attention (MLA), innovative load balancing, and Multi-Token Prediction (MTP). DeepSeek-V3.2 is an updated release with further improvements.

Moonlight by Moonshot AI also uses this architecture with 16B total / 3B activated parameters.


Task	Text Generation (MoE)
Architecture	`DeepseekV3ForCausalLM` / `DeepseekV32ForCausalLM`
Parameters	671B total / 37B active
HF Org	deepseek-ai

Available Models

DeepSeek-V3: 671B total, 37B activated
DeepSeek-V3.2 (DeepseekV32ForCausalLM): updated architecture
Moonlight-16B-A3B (Moonshot AI): 16B total, 3B activated

Architectures

DeepseekV3ForCausalLM
DeepseekV32ForCausalLM

Example HF Models

Model	HF ID
DeepSeek-V3	`deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3`
DeepSeek-V3-Base	`deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-Base`
DeepSeek-V3.2	`deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2`
Moonlight 16B A3B	`moonshotai/Moonlight-16B-A3B`

Example Recipes

Recipe	Description
deepseek_v32_hellaswag_pp.yaml	SFT — DeepSeek-V3.2 on HellaSwag with pipeline parallelism
moonlight_16b_te.yaml	SFT — Moonlight 16B with Transformer Engine
moonlight_16b_te_packed_sequence.yaml	SFT — Moonlight 16B with packed sequences

Try with NeMo AutoModel

1. Install (full instructions):

$ pip install nemo-automodel

2. Clone the repo to get the example recipes:

$ git clone https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Automodel.git
$ cd Automodel

This recipe was validated on 32 nodes × 8 GPUs (256 H100s). See the Launcher Guide for multi-node setup.

3. Run the recipe from inside the repo:

$ automodel --nproc-per-node=8 examples/llm_finetune/deepseek_v32/deepseek_v32_hellaswag_pp.yaml

Run with Docker

1. Pull the container and mount a checkpoint directory:

$ docker run --gpus all -it --rm \
>   --shm-size=8g \
>   -v $(pwd)/checkpoints:/opt/Automodel/checkpoints \
>   nvcr.io/nvidia/nemo-automodel:26.04.00

2. Navigate to the AutoModel directory (where the recipes are):

$ cd /opt/Automodel

3. Run the recipe:

$ automodel --nproc-per-node=8 examples/llm_finetune/deepseek_v32/deepseek_v32_hellaswag_pp.yaml

See the Installation Guide and LLM Fine-Tuning Guide.

Fine-Tuning

See the LLM Fine-Tuning Guide and the Large MoE Fine-Tuning Guide.