DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash shows how Causal Encoder-Decoder architecture, MoE, KV cache compression, CSA2, cheaper prefill, and efficient decoding can make powerful open-source AI models far more efficient to run.
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Once feature engineering lives inside a Pipeline, each step is fitted on training data only, and the model is scored what it actually earned. And that is the idea behind this new cheat sheet.