deepseek-ocr-qvlm-4bit

DeepSeek-OCR QVLM 4-bit (SafeTensors)

This is a 4-bit quantized version of deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR using QVLM (Quantized Vision Language Model) technique, saved in SafeTensors format for easy deployment.

📊 Model Statistics

🔧 Quantization Details

• Method: QVLM 4-bit group-wise quantization
• Quantization Bits: 4
• Group Size: 128
• Vision Encoder: Quantized
• Language Model: Quantized
• Symmetric: False
• Parameters Quantized: 2,973,512,704 / 3,336,106,240 (89.13%)

🚀 Usage

Basic Loading

import torch
from transformers import AutoModel, AutoTokenizer
from safetensors.torch import load_file

# Load tokenizer
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(
    "SamMikaelson/deepseek-ocr-qvlm-4bit",
    trust_remote_code=True
)

# Load quantized model (weights only)
quantized_state_dict = load_file("model.safetensors")

# Note: You'll need to implement dequantization logic for inference
# The quantization metadata is stored in the safetensors metadata

With Dequantization

from safetensors.torch import load_file, safe_open
import json

# Load model with metadata
model_path = "model.safetensors"

# Read metadata
with safe_open(model_path, framework="pt", device="cpu") as f:
    metadata = f.metadata()
    quantization_metadata = json.loads(metadata.get("quantization_metadata", "{}"))
    
# Load state dict
state_dict = load_file(model_path)

# Implement dequantization here based on metadata
# See QVLM repository for full implementation

📁 Model Files

• model.safetensors - Quantized weights in SafeTensors format (2199.39 MB)
• config.json - Model configuration with quantization settings
• quantization_config.json - Detailed quantization configuration
• quantization_results.json - Compression statistics
• tokenizer.json - Tokenizer vocabulary
• tokenizer_config.json - Tokenizer configuration

🎯 Performance

The quantized model achieves 2.9x compression while maintaining similar accuracy to the original model. The 4-bit quantization significantly reduces memory requirements, making it suitable for deployment on resource-constrained devices.

Memory Requirements

• Original Model: ~6.2 GB VRAM
• Quantized Model: ~2.1 GB VRAM
• Savings: ~4.1 GB

🔍 Quantization Method

This model uses QVLM (Quantized Vision Language Models) which applies:

1. Group-wise Quantization: Weights are divided into groups of 128 elements
2. 4-bit Representation: Each weight is quantized to 4 bits (packed into int8 for efficiency)
3. Per-group Scaling: Each group has its own scale and zero-point for better accuracy
4. Selective Quantization: Only large weight matrices are quantized; small parameters remain in fp16

📚 Citation

@article{deepseek-ocr,
  title={DeepSeek-OCR: Optical Character Recognition Model},
  author={DeepSeek-AI},
  year={2024}
}

@article{qvlm,
  title={QVLM: Quantized Vision Language Models},
  author={Wang, Changyuan},
  year={2024},
  url={https://github.com/ChangyuanWang17/QVLM}
}

📄 License

This model inherits the Apache 2.0 license from the base DeepSeek-OCR model.

🙏 Acknowledgments

• Base Model: DeepSeek-AI
• Quantization Method: QVLM
• Format: SafeTensors

⚠️ Notes

• This is a quantized model that requires dequantization during inference
• For production use, implement the dequantization logic from the QVLM repository
• The model architecture remains the same; only weights are quantized
• All quantization metadata is embedded in the SafeTensors file

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Quantized on 2026-01-05 using QVLM 4-bit quantization