# DeepSeek 1017: VQ file identity before runtime claims

The converter reports a 1000-tensor base, its exact assembled file size and a successful loader binding check. The separate vision sidecar and official 1017 Engram files retain individual identities. These are artifact and loader observations. The selected source explicitly has no 1017-specific serving speed, peak RAM or model-quality measurement.

- Type: Deployment recipe
- Evidence: source_reported; site reproduced: false
- Model family: DeepSeek
- Model: Baekpica/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017-VQ-GGUF
- Original author: Baekpica
- Original project: https://huggingface.co/Baekpica/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017-VQ-GGUF
- Pinned document: https://huggingface.co/Baekpica/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017-VQ-GGUF/blob/f81ee2e9801fcc58fd51ae75dd827467ffc0b9e5/README.md
- Source revision: f81ee2e9801fcc58fd51ae75dd827467ffc0b9e5
- Source commit time (not experiment date): 2026-10-17T11:05:38.000Z
- Checked: 2026-10-18
- Experiment date: 2026-10-17 status in card
- Runtime topics: ds4-dfm-rs
- Hardware topics: spark, nvidia
- Reported setup: {"system": null, "node_count": null, "parallelism": null, "kv_dtype": null, "context_limit_tokens": 1048576, "experiment_date": "2026-10-17 status in card"}
- Performance figures: attributed selections with per-point conditions; no cross-source ranking

## Conditions

Unknown is null. Recipe options are not measured benchmark settings.

```json
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    "runtime_execution_revision": null,
    "input_tokens": null,
    "output_tokens": null,
    "concurrency": null,
    "cache_state": null,
    "quantization": null,
    "speculative_decoding": null,
    "temperature": null,
    "top_p": null
  },
  "test_profiles": [
    {
      "label": "1017 VQ base GGUF",
      "evidence_url": "https://huggingface.co/Baekpica/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017-VQ-GGUF/blob/f81ee2e9801fcc58fd51ae75dd827467ffc0b9e5/README.md#L97",
      "conditions": {
        "model": "DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017",
        "model_artifact": "Baekpica/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017-VQ-GGUF",
        "model_revision": "f81ee2e9801fcc58fd51ae75dd827467ffc0b9e5",
        "base_model_revision": "1bae0e1088993b9b82de08f59de5be5a34e42170",
        "quantizer_revision": "7fb26cc332d740416792204a29c7d13d2986caf5",
        "vision_converter_revision": "e4ea07889144d85acd33b2490ec4f44032644fb0",
        "quantization": "YoungAi vq8sh14-q4k-mtpnative; routed-expert VQ, q4_K skeleton; native MTP towers",
        "measurement_kind": "publisher artifact layout inspection, not runtime evaluation",
        "experiment_date": "2026-10-17 status in card",
        "system": null,
        "engine": "target ds4-dfm-rs; loader check passed, serving unmeasured on 1017",
        "runtime_execution_revision": null,
        "input_tokens": null,
        "output_tokens": null,
        "concurrency": null,
        "context_limit_tokens": 1048576,
        "context_limit_origin": "model metadata, not measured serving result",
        "speed_1017_measured": false,
        "quality_1017_measured": false,
        "peak_runtime_memory_measured": false,
        "base_model_speed_inherited": false,
        "filename": "DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-vq8sh14-q4k-mtpnative.gguf",
        "memory_kind": "artifact_disk_file_bytes",
        "Engram_included": false
      }
    },
    {
      "label": "1017 BF16 vision sidecar",
      "evidence_url": "https://huggingface.co/Baekpica/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017-VQ-GGUF/blob/f81ee2e9801fcc58fd51ae75dd827467ffc0b9e5/README.md#L98",
      "conditions": {
        "model": "DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017",
        "model_artifact": "Baekpica/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017-VQ-GGUF",
        "model_revision": "f81ee2e9801fcc58fd51ae75dd827467ffc0b9e5",
        "base_model_revision": "1bae0e1088993b9b82de08f59de5be5a34e42170",
        "quantizer_revision": "7fb26cc332d740416792204a29c7d13d2986caf5",
        "vision_converter_revision": "e4ea07889144d85acd33b2490ec4f44032644fb0",
        "quantization": "YoungAi vq8sh14-q4k-mtpnative; routed-expert VQ, q4_K skeleton; native MTP towers",
        "measurement_kind": "publisher artifact layout inspection, not runtime evaluation",
        "experiment_date": "2026-10-17 status in card",
        "system": null,
        "engine": "target ds4-dfm-rs; loader check passed, serving unmeasured on 1017",
        "runtime_execution_revision": null,
        "input_tokens": null,
        "output_tokens": null,
        "concurrency": null,
        "context_limit_tokens": 1048576,
        "context_limit_origin": "model metadata, not measured serving result",
        "speed_1017_measured": false,
        "quality_1017_measured": false,
        "peak_runtime_memory_measured": false,
        "base_model_speed_inherited": false,
        "filename": "DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash.vision.gguf",
        "memory_kind": "artifact_disk_file_bytes",
        "Engram_included": false
      }
    }
  ],
  "recipe_parameters": null,
  "deployment_options": []
}
```

## Reading notes

- A source document, not an independent experiment count. Preserve measurement type and unknown fields.

## Limits

- No independent Run AI Here model execution.
- Document revision is distinct from execution and weight identity.
- File bytes, host RSS, anonymous memory, MemAvailable, KV allocation and configured context are different quantities.

## License declaration

{"declared_spdx": "mit", "scope": "Source declaration only; base weights, converters, runtimes and source integration material retain their own terms."}


## Editorial answer

The converter reports a 1000-tensor base, its exact assembled file size and a successful loader binding check. The separate vision sidecar and official 1017 Engram files retain individual identities. These are artifact and loader observations. The selected source explicitly has no 1017-specific serving speed, peak RAM or model-quality measurement.

By Run AI Here editorial · 2026-10-18

Original source-grounded editorial synthesis with local Spark Qwen assistance and Codex review; no site model benchmark.

## Which facts are confirmed by the publisher?

The converter reports a 1000-tensor base, its exact assembled file size and a successful loader binding check. The separate vision sidecar and official 1017 Engram files retain individual identities. These are artifact and loader observations. The selected source explicitly has no 1017-specific serving speed, peak RAM or model-quality measurement.

Sources: https://huggingface.co/Baekpica/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017-VQ-GGUF/blob/f81ee2e9801fcc58fd51ae75dd827467ffc0b9e5/README.md, https://huggingface.co/Baekpica/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017-VQ-GGUF/blob/f81ee2e9801fcc58fd51ae75dd827467ffc0b9e5/SHA256SUMS

## Why are old names unsafe identifiers?

The 1017 Engram shard names and byte sizes match the older release, while their hashes differ. The vision sidecar also keeps its name and size with different contents. Use revision and SHA-256 alongside paths. The quantizer and vision converter have separate pinned commits, and domain sidecars trained against the older base are not treated as interchangeable.

Sources: https://huggingface.co/Baekpica/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017-VQ-GGUF/blob/f81ee2e9801fcc58fd51ae75dd827467ffc0b9e5/SOURCE.md, https://huggingface.co/Baekpica/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017-VQ-GGUF/blob/f81ee2e9801fcc58fd51ae75dd827467ffc0b9e5/RECIPE.md

## Does a small file prove a small runtime footprint?

The base excludes its Engram files and does not describe all live buffers, caches, page residency or service overhead. Its native context field comes from model metadata. Old V4.1 speed and fidelity numbers in the card remain old-checkpoint reference results; they are not published as this 1017 artifact’s measured performance.

Sources: https://huggingface.co/Baekpica/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017-VQ-GGUF/blob/f81ee2e9801fcc58fd51ae75dd827467ffc0b9e5/README.md, https://huggingface.co/Baekpica/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017-VQ-GGUF/blob/f81ee2e9801fcc58fd51ae75dd827467ffc0b9e5/RECIPE.md

## Does the GGUF suffix certify generic loader compatibility?

This artifact uses custom VQ payload storage and targets the named ds4-dfm-rs or YoungAi path. The file extension alone does not show that an arbitrary llama.cpp or Transformers installation can load it. Keep the converter commits, recipe string and stated target runtime rather than generalizing compatibility from the container name.

Sources: https://huggingface.co/Baekpica/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017-VQ-GGUF/blob/f81ee2e9801fcc58fd51ae75dd827467ffc0b9e5/RECIPE.md

## Selected source-reported figures

Each point retains its own configuration, measurement unit and source. No site reproduction or cross-source ranking.

```json
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    "metric": "artifact_size",
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    "unit": "bytes",
    "statistic": "source-reported file bytes; not a RAM requirement",
    "uncertainty": null,
    "conditions": {
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      "model_artifact": "Baekpica/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017-VQ-GGUF",
      "model_revision": "f81ee2e9801fcc58fd51ae75dd827467ffc0b9e5",
      "base_model_revision": "1bae0e1088993b9b82de08f59de5be5a34e42170",
      "quantizer_revision": "7fb26cc332d740416792204a29c7d13d2986caf5",
      "vision_converter_revision": "e4ea07889144d85acd33b2490ec4f44032644fb0",
      "quantization": "YoungAi vq8sh14-q4k-mtpnative; routed-expert VQ, q4_K skeleton; native MTP towers",
      "measurement_kind": "publisher artifact layout inspection, not runtime evaluation",
      "experiment_date": "2026-10-17 status in card",
      "system": null,
      "engine": "target ds4-dfm-rs; loader check passed, serving unmeasured on 1017",
      "runtime_execution_revision": null,
      "input_tokens": null,
      "output_tokens": null,
      "concurrency": null,
      "context_limit_tokens": 1048576,
      "context_limit_origin": "model metadata, not measured serving result",
      "speed_1017_measured": false,
      "quality_1017_measured": false,
      "peak_runtime_memory_measured": false,
      "base_model_speed_inherited": false,
      "filename": "DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-vq8sh14-q4k-mtpnative.gguf",
      "memory_kind": "artifact_disk_file_bytes",
      "Engram_included": false
    },
    "evidence_state": "source_reported",
    "site_reproduced": false,
    "source_document_id": "ds1017vq-readme",
    "source_document_sha256": "b9f85bae000a8aa0e270555d17b1f9bd859a79bc3f5f2d7fde7eb00607cc990f",
    "source_line": 97,
    "evidence_url": "https://huggingface.co/Baekpica/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017-VQ-GGUF/blob/f81ee2e9801fcc58fd51ae75dd827467ffc0b9e5/README.md#L97"
  },
  {
    "label": "1017 BF16 vision sidecar",
    "metric": "artifact_size",
    "value": 971066016,
    "unit": "bytes",
    "statistic": "source-reported file bytes; not a RAM requirement",
    "uncertainty": null,
    "conditions": {
      "model": "DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017",
      "model_artifact": "Baekpica/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017-VQ-GGUF",
      "model_revision": "f81ee2e9801fcc58fd51ae75dd827467ffc0b9e5",
      "base_model_revision": "1bae0e1088993b9b82de08f59de5be5a34e42170",
      "quantizer_revision": "7fb26cc332d740416792204a29c7d13d2986caf5",
      "vision_converter_revision": "e4ea07889144d85acd33b2490ec4f44032644fb0",
      "quantization": "YoungAi vq8sh14-q4k-mtpnative; routed-expert VQ, q4_K skeleton; native MTP towers",
      "measurement_kind": "publisher artifact layout inspection, not runtime evaluation",
      "experiment_date": "2026-10-17 status in card",
      "system": null,
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      "runtime_execution_revision": null,
      "input_tokens": null,
      "output_tokens": null,
      "concurrency": null,
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      "context_limit_origin": "model metadata, not measured serving result",
      "speed_1017_measured": false,
      "quality_1017_measured": false,
      "peak_runtime_memory_measured": false,
      "base_model_speed_inherited": false,
      "filename": "DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash.vision.gguf",
      "memory_kind": "artifact_disk_file_bytes",
      "Engram_included": false
    },
    "evidence_state": "source_reported",
    "site_reproduced": false,
    "source_document_id": "ds1017vq-readme",
    "source_document_sha256": "b9f85bae000a8aa0e270555d17b1f9bd859a79bc3f5f2d7fde7eb00607cc990f",
    "source_line": 98,
    "evidence_url": "https://huggingface.co/Baekpica/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017-VQ-GGUF/blob/f81ee2e9801fcc58fd51ae75dd827467ffc0b9e5/README.md#L98"
  }
]
```

## Supplemental source identities

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      "revision": "f81ee2e9801fcc58fd51ae75dd827467ffc0b9e5",
      "document_path": "RECIPE.md",
      "pinned_url": "https://huggingface.co/Baekpica/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017-VQ-GGUF/blob/f81ee2e9801fcc58fd51ae75dd827467ffc0b9e5/RECIPE.md",
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```

## memory observations

```json
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      "kind": "file_inventory_not_RAM",
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      "vision_bytes": 971066016,
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      ],
      "actual_peak_RAM": null,
      "speed_and_quality_1017": null
    }
  ]
}
```