# deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V2-Lite

This model is a mixture of experts language model with 16B total parameters and 2.4B active parameters. It uses MLA and DeepSeekMoE, and the release lists a 32k context length for the lite model.

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- Citation: deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V2-Lite. The Hugging Bay model record. https://huggingbay.xyz/artifact/hf-model-deepseek-ai-deepseek-v2-lite (retrieved 2026-11-13).
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## Facts

- Type: LLM
- Task: text-generation
- Framework: transformers
- License: deepseek
- Source: unknown
- Hosting: hosted (10 files)
- Files: 10 hosted of 15 listed
- Needs its own code to run: Uses custom model code (configuration_deepseek.py). Plain llama.cpp, Ollama and LM Studio commands are not offered for this model unless a GGUF file is listed.
- File counts: "listed" is every file in the source repository; only hosted files download from Hugging Bay, and the download plan lists the files it selects for one download, so its count can differ.
- Hosted here: 10 hosted of 15 listed
- Full repo upstream: 31.4 GB
- Recommended file: 31.4 GB (4 files)
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- Availability: Ready
- Downloadable: yes
- Run-ready: no (Hugging Bay has not certified a run path for this model; hosted bytes are downloadable and hash-checkable only)
- Peer-assisted fallbacks: 0 verified, 0 pending review
- Downloads: 319056
- Stars: 188
- Card completeness: 89%

## Description

This model is a mixture of experts language model with 16B total parameters and 2.4B active parameters. It uses MLA and DeepSeekMoE, and the release lists a 32k context length for the lite model.

## Model Card Facts

- Declared license: other
- Pipeline: text-generation
- Library: transformers
- Task categories: text-generation
- Paper ids: 2405.04434
- File hints: 15 upstream file samples

## Referenced Data

- Paper: 2405.04434

## File Hints

- .gitattributes (1.5 KB)
- LICENSE (13 KB)
- README.md (15 KB)
- config.json (1.5 KB)
- configuration_deepseek.py (10 KB)
- generation_config.json (181 B)
- model-00001-of-000004.safetensors (8.0 GB) LFS
- model-00002-of-000004.safetensors (8.0 GB) LFS
- model-00003-of-000004.safetensors (8.0 GB) LFS
- model-00004-of-000004.safetensors (5.2 GB) LFS
- model.safetensors.index.json (469 KB)
- modeling_deepseek.py (77 KB)

## Quality Checklist

- Summary: passed
- Description: passed
- Model card metadata: passed
- License: review
- Provenance: missing
- File inventory: passed
- Hosted bytes: passed
- Scan result: passed
- Manifest signature: passed

## Safety Notes

- External catalog metadata imported from Hugging Face public API on 2026-09-20T02:41:01.642Z.
- Upstream license: other. Mirror admission policy: permissive (owner policy; no license rights inferred).
- Not a run kit: hosted, hash-checked bytes only; run readiness is not certified for this model yet.

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