Skip to content
Conference Open access

DeepSeek-V3: Architecture and Optimizations-A Practical Review

2026 · EPJ Web of Conferences · 0 citations

Abstract

The design of transformer-based Large Language Models (LLMs) is being radically changed through new architectures that are able to overcome scalability limitations of previous designs, including Mixture-of-Experts (MoE), Multi-Head Latent Attention (MLA), and Multi-Token Prediction (MTP). As an open-weighted model released at the end of 2024, which has both state of the art architectural transparency and production scale efficiency, DeepSeeek-V3 represents the ultimate testing ground for investigating these modern technologies. This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the architectural structure of DeepSeek-V3 based upon information from the DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report, industry benchmarking data and independent latency testing, to demonstrate how various techniques can be used to optimize training while still providing competitive performance in code generation and mathematical reasoning. In addition, latency testing conducted on a Distilled version of DeepSeek-V3, with approximately 14 billion parameters, running on a T4 GPU, reveals that although significant improvements have been made in optimizing latency there remains substantial barriers to deploying these models. Through this context, this research will serve as a reference document for practitioners and researchers who wish to understand current trends and challenges in increasing accessibility to high performance AI models.

Read PDF

Similar papers

Book Open access Jul 2026

Optimus: A Generic Operator-Level PyTorch Model Transformation Framework

Optimus is a general-purpose model transformation framework built in the PyTorch 2.x (PT2) machine learning compiler that applies an efficient greedy search algorithm for pattern matching and replacement, while preserving model semantic.

Menglu Yu, Jiaqi Xu, Yuzhen Huang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Review Open access Nov 2026

A comparative review of modern large language model paradigms: GPT-4, BERT, Gemini, and DeepSeek

Comparison of GPT-4, BERT (bidirectional encoder representations from transformers), Gemini, and DeepSeek large language models (LLM), focusing on architectures, training methodologies, and real-world applications reveals GPT-4 excels in natural language generation and complex reasoning, supporting up to 128K tokens with moderate latency and higher costs making it effective for conversational artificial intelligence (AI).

Kavish Sanghvi, Aparna S. Sharma, Surbhi Hooda · 0 citations
Preprint Jul 2026

LEMUR 2: Unlocking Neural Network Diversity for AI

This dataset defines a new basis for reproducible and data-driven AI design, advancing the emerging paradigm of LLM-driven AutoML and architectural generalization across modalities and hardware.

Tolgay Atinc Uzun, Waleed Khalid, Saif U Din et al. · 19 citations
Preprint Aug 2026

Opt.Gear Technical Report

OptGear-1M is the first generative language model to achieve 20 TPS with W4A32 quantization on the ARM Cortex-M7 CPU of the STM32H747I-DISCO, and is the most data-efficient of the existing foundation models.

Juneyoung Park, Youngwoo Kwon · 0 citations
Conference Jul 2026

CovCraft: LLM-Guided Intelligent Framework for Constraint-Based Testing of Deep Learning Compiler Pipelines

Deep learning (DL) compilers such as Apache TVM translate high-level models into optimized low-level code through multi-stage compilation pipelines. While recent testing efforts have improved fuzzing of optimization stages, they still face two key challenges: (i) the lack of semantics-preserving test models, leading to low validity, and (ii) coarse-grained input generation that fails to trigger hard-to-reach compiler components. To address these limitations, we propose CovCraft, a unified testing framework that integrates constraint-driven model generation with large language model (LLM)-guided input adaptation. CovCraft constructs diverse and valid ONNX models via symbolic constraint encoding and SMT solving, and then iteratively refines inputs using LLM-guided prompts to target uncovered functions, enabling the activation of rarely executed code paths. We evaluate CovCraft on TVM and observe consistent improvements over state-of-the-art techniques: it increases branch and function coverage by 8.9% and 7.0%, respectively, and detects 8 bugs. Moreover, the LLM-guided component achieves an 83.75% success rate in covering designated target functions, demonstrating the effectiveness of combining constraint-based generation with adaptive LLM reasoning for DL compiler testing. The prototype implementation of CovCraft is publicly available at: https://github.com/duduhedangdang/CovCraft.

Yifei He, Fangyu Yang, Ting Su et al. · 0 citations
Jun 2026

Mural: Transferring LLM knowledge to image generation via Mixture-of-Transformers

Leveraging capabilities of large language models (LLMs) in text-to-image (T2I) synthesis is an important research direction. In this work we investigate whether the knowledge of a frozen LLM can be effectively utilized in T2I generation when trained exclusively on standard text-image pairs. We integrate a frozen, reasoning-capable LLM with a diffusion-based image generator via shared attention within the Mixture-of-Transformers (MoT) architecture. Our experiments span two critical questions: (1) what degree of the LLM's intrinsic knowledge remains accessible during T2I training, and (2) what novel capabilities emerge in the resulting system. Across established benchmarks, our models achieve strong performance among unified understanding-generation systems: 0.85 on GenEval, 86.75 on DPG-Bench, and 0.66 on WISE with inference-time reasoning, using only text-image data. Remarkably, we uncover emergent behaviors absent from training data, including cross-lingual image generation, color-guided composition, emoji / ASCII scene construction, and generation directed by world knowledge. These results demonstrate that pretrained LLM knowledge can guide image synthesis under standard text-to-image training paradigms, without interleaved multimodal signals or explicit reasoning supervision. Our findings open new avenues for harnessing frozen model capabilities in resource-constrained multimodal learning.

Achin Jain, Jie An, Siddharth Chaudhary et al. · 0 citations