# DeepSeek-R1

## Introduction

DeepSeek-R1 is a high-performance Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) large language model developed by DeepSeek Company. It excels in complex logical reasoning, mathematical problem-solving, and code generation. By dynamically activating its expert networks, it delivers exceptional performance while maintaining computational efficiency. Building upon R1, DeepSeek-R1-W8A8 is a fully quantized version of the model. It employs 8-bit integer (INT8) quantization for both weights and activations, which significantly reduces the model's memory footprint and computational requirements, enabling more efficient deployment and application in resource-constrained environments.
This article takes the deepseek- R1-W8A8 version as an example to introduce the deployment of the R1 series models.

## Supported Features

Refer to [supported features](../user_guide/support_matrix/supported_models.md) to get the model's supported feature matrix.

Refer to [feature guide](../user_guide/feature_guide/index.md) to get the feature's configuration.

## Environment Preparation

### Model Weight

- `DeepSeek-R1-W8A8`(Quantized version): require 1 Atlas 800 A3 (64G × 16) nodes or 2 Atlas 800 A2 (64G × 8) nodes. [Download model weight](https://www.modelscope.cn/models/vllm-ascend/DeepSeek-R1-W8A8)

It is recommended to download the model weight to the shared directory of multiple nodes.

### Verify Multi-node Communication(Optional)

If you want to deploy multi-node environment, you need to verify multi-node communication according to [verify multi-node communication environment](../installation.md#verify-multi-node-communication).

### Installation

You can using our official docker image to run `DeepSeek-R1-W8A8` directly.

Select an image based on your machine type and start the docker image on your node, refer to [using docker](../installation.md#set-up-using-docker).

```{code-block} bash
   :substitutions:
# Update --device according to your device (Atlas A2: /dev/davinci[0-7] Atlas A3:/dev/davinci[0-15]).
# Update the vllm-ascend image according to your environment.
# Note you should download the weight to /root/.cache in advance.
# Update the vllm-ascend image
export IMAGE=m.daocloud.io/quay.io/ascend/vllm-ascend:|vllm_ascend_version|
export NAME=vllm-ascend

# Run the container using the defined variables
# Note: If you are running bridge network with docker, please expose available ports for multiple nodes communication in advance
docker run --rm \
--name $NAME \
--net=host \
--shm-size=1g \
--device /dev/davinci0 \
--device /dev/davinci1 \
--device /dev/davinci2 \
--device /dev/davinci3 \
--device /dev/davinci4 \
--device /dev/davinci5 \
--device /dev/davinci6 \
--device /dev/davinci7 \
--device /dev/davinci_manager \
--device /dev/devmm_svm \
--device /dev/hisi_hdc \
-v /usr/local/dcmi:/usr/local/dcmi \
-v /etc/hccn.conf:/etc/hccn.conf \
-v /usr/bin/hccn_tool:/usr/bin/hccn_tool \
-v /usr/local/Ascend/driver/tools/hccn_tool:/usr/local/Ascend/driver/tools/hccn_tool \
-v /usr/local/bin/npu-smi:/usr/local/bin/npu-smi \
-v /usr/local/Ascend/driver/lib64/:/usr/local/Ascend/driver/lib64/ \
-v /usr/local/Ascend/driver/version.info:/usr/local/Ascend/driver/version.info \
-v /etc/ascend_install.info:/etc/ascend_install.info \
-it $IMAGE bash
```

If you want to deploy multi-node environment, you need to set up environment on each node.

## Deployment
### Service-oriented  Deployment

- `DeepSeek-R1-W8A8`: require 1 Atlas 800 A3 (64G × 16) nodes or 2 Atlas 800 A2 (64G × 8).

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:sync-group: install

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```shell
#!/bin/sh

# this obtained through ifconfig
# nic_name is the network interface name corresponding to local_ip of the current node
nic_name="xxxx"
local_ip="xxxx"

# AIV
export HCCL_OP_EXPANSION_MODE="AIV"
export HCCL_IF_IP=$local_ip
export GLOO_SOCKET_IFNAME=$nic_name
export TP_SOCKET_IFNAME=$nic_name
export HCCL_SOCKET_IFNAME=$nic_name
export VLLM_ASCEND_ENABLE_MLAPO=1
export VLLM_USE_MODELSCOPE=True

vllm serve vllm-ascend/DeepSeek-R1-W8A8 \
  --host 0.0.0.0 \
  --port 8000 \
  --data-parallel-size 4 \
  --tensor-parallel-size 4 \
  --quantization ascend \
  --seed 1024 \
  --served-model-name deepseek_r1 \
  --enable-expert-parallel \
  --max-num-seqs 16 \
  --max-model-len 16384 \
  --max-num-batched-tokens 4096 \
  --trust-remote-code \
  --gpu-memory-utilization 0.92 \
  --speculative-config '{"num_speculative_tokens":1,"method":"mtp"}' \
  --compilation-config '{"cudagraph_mode":"FULL_DECODE_ONLY"}'
```

**Notice:**
The parameters are explained as follows:
- Setting the environment variable `VLLM_ASCEND_ENABLE_MLAPO=1` enables a fusion operator that can significantly improve performance, though it requires more NPU memory. It is therefore recommended to enable this option when sufficient NPU memory is available.
- For single-node deployment, we recommend using `dp4tp4` instead of `dp2tp8`.
- `--max-model-len` specifies the maximum context length - that is, the sum of input and output tokens for a single request. For performance testing with an input length of 3.5K and output length of 1.5K, a value of `16384` is sufficient, however, for precision testing, please set it at least `35000`.
- `--no-enable-prefix-caching` indicates that prefix caching is disabled. To enable it, remove this option.

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::::{tab-item} DeepSeek-R1-W8A8 A2 series

Run the following scripts on two nodes respectively.

**Node 0**

```shell
#!/bin/sh

# this obtained through ifconfig
# nic_name is the network interface name corresponding to local_ip of the current node
nic_name="xxxx"
local_ip="xxxx"

# AIV
export HCCL_OP_EXPANSION_MODE="AIV"
export HCCL_IF_IP=$local_ip
export GLOO_SOCKET_IFNAME=$nic_name
export TP_SOCKET_IFNAME=$nic_name
export HCCL_SOCKET_IFNAME=$nic_name
export PYTORCH_NPU_ALLOC_CONF=expandable_segments:True
export VLLM_ASCEND_ENABLE_MLAPO=1
export HCCL_INTRA_PCIE_ENABLE=1
export HCCL_INTRA_ROCE_ENABLE=0
export VLLM_USE_MODELSCOPE=True

vllm serve vllm-ascend/DeepSeek-R1-W8A8 \
  --host 0.0.0.0 \
  --port 8000 \
  --data-parallel-size 4 \
  --data-parallel-size-local 2 \
  --data-parallel-address $local_ip \
  --data-parallel-rpc-port 13389 \
  --tensor-parallel-size 4 \
  --quantization ascend \
  --seed 1024 \
  --served-model-name deepseek_r1 \
  --enable-expert-parallel \
  --max-num-seqs 16 \
  --max-model-len 16384 \
  --max-num-batched-tokens 4096 \
  --trust-remote-code \
  --gpu-memory-utilization 0.94 \
  --speculative-config '{"num_speculative_tokens":1,"method":"mtp"}' \
  --compilation-config '{"cudagraph_mode":"FULL_DECODE_ONLY"}' 
```

**Node 1**

```shell
#!/bin/sh

# this obtained through ifconfig
# nic_name is the network interface name corresponding to local_ip of the current node
nic_name="xxxx"
local_ip="xxxx"
node0_ip="xxxx" # same as the local_IP address in node 0

# AIV
export HCCL_OP_EXPANSION_MODE="AIV"
export HCCL_IF_IP=$local_ip
export GLOO_SOCKET_IFNAME=$nic_name
export TP_SOCKET_IFNAME=$nic_name
export HCCL_SOCKET_IFNAME=$nic_name
export PYTORCH_NPU_ALLOC_CONF=expandable_segments:True
export VLLM_ASCEND_ENABLE_MLAPO=1
export HCCL_INTRA_PCIE_ENABLE=1
export HCCL_INTRA_ROCE_ENABLE=0
export VLLM_USE_MODELSCOPE=True

vllm serve vllm-ascend/DeepSeek-R1-W8A8 \
  --host 0.0.0.0 \
  --port 8000 \
  --headless \
  --data-parallel-size 4 \
  --data-parallel-size-local 2 \
  --data-parallel-start-rank 2 \
  --data-parallel-address $node0_ip \
  --data-parallel-rpc-port 13389 \
  --tensor-parallel-size 4 \
  --quantization ascend \
  --seed 1024 \
  --served-model-name deepseek_r1 \
  --enable-expert-parallel \
  --max-num-seqs 16 \
  --max-model-len 16384 \
  --max-num-batched-tokens 4096 \
  --trust-remote-code \
  --gpu-memory-utilization 0.94 \
  --speculative-config '{"num_speculative_tokens":1,"method":"mtp"}' \
  --compilation-config '{"cudagraph_mode":"FULL_DECODE_ONLY"}'
```

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### Prefill-Decode Disaggregation

We recommend using Mooncake for deployment: [Mooncake](./pd_disaggregation_mooncake_multi_node.md).

This solution has been tested and demonstrates excellent performance.

## Functional Verification

Once your server is started, you can query the model with input prompts:

```shell
curl http://<node0_ip>:<port>/v1/completions \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{
        "model": "deepseek_r1",
        "prompt": "The future of AI is",
        "max_tokens": 50,
        "temperature": 0
    }'
```

## Accuracy Evaluation

Here are two accuracy evaluation methods.

### Using AISBench

1. Refer to [Using AISBench](../developer_guide/evaluation/using_ais_bench.md) for details.

2. After execution, you can get the result, here is the result of `DeepSeek-R1-W8A8` in `vllm-ascend:0.11.0rc2` for reference only.

| dataset | version | metric | mode | vllm-api-general-chat |
|----- | ----- | ----- | ----- | -----|
| aime2024dataset | - | accuracy | gen | 80.00 |
| gpqadataset | - | accuracy | gen | 72.22 |

### Using Language Model Evaluation Harness

As an example, take the `gsm8k` dataset as a test dataset, and run accuracy evaluation of `DeepSeek-R1-W8A8` in online mode.

1. Refer to [Using lm_eval](../developer_guide/evaluation/using_lm_eval.md) for `lm_eval` installation.

2. Run `lm_eval` to execute the accuracy evaluation.

```shell
lm_eval \
  --model local-completions \
  --model_args model=path/DeepSeek-R1-W8A8,base_url=http://<node0_ip>:<port>/v1/completions,tokenized_requests=False,trust_remote_code=True \
  --tasks gsm8k \
  --output_path ./
```

3. After execution, you can get the result.

## Performance
### Using AISBench

Refer to [Using AISBench for performance evaluation](../developer_guide/evaluation/using_ais_bench.md#execute-performance-evaluation) for details.

### Using vLLM Benchmark

Run performance evaluation of `DeepSeek-R1-W8A8` as an example.

Refer to [vllm benchmark](https://docs.vllm.ai/en/latest/contributing/benchmarks.html) for more details.

There are three `vllm bench` subcommand:
- `latency`: Benchmark the latency of a single batch of requests.
- `serve`: Benchmark the online serving throughput.
- `throughput`: Benchmark offline inference throughput.

Take the `serve` as an example. Run the code as follows.

```shell
export VLLM_USE_MODELSCOPE=true
vllm bench serve --model path/DeepSeek-R1-W8A8  --dataset-name random --random-input 200 --num-prompt 200 --request-rate 1 --save-result --result-dir ./
```

After about several minutes, you can get the performance evaluation result.