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Anyone running DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 on MI325X with vLLM? Mine is behaving completely broken

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Is anyone here successfully running DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 locally with vLLM, especially on AMD MI325X?

My setup:

  • GPU: 1x AMD Instinct MI325X
  • Model: deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
  • vLLM: 0.26.0 ROCm image
  • --tokenizer-mode deepseek_v4
  • --reasoning-parser deepseek_v4
  • --tool-call-parser deepseek_v4
  • --enable-auto-tool-choice
  • Open Webui
  • hermes agent
  • DSpark speculative decoding with the recommended greedy draft mode
  • FP8 KV cache
  • Basically following the official vLLM/DeepSeek MI325X recipe as closely as possible

The model loads and runs, but its actual behavior is extremely strange and honestly feels broken.

For example, I asked it about the weather. It started out normally, but then proceeded to:

  • repeatedly tell me it had used different weather/browser tools
  • repeat basically the same forecast several times
  • claim it had opened/rendered things that it apparently hadn't
  • output DSML tool calls in plain text
  • claim file/tool operations succeeded when the runtime reported that they failed

I've also seen it do things like:

  • call nonexistent tools
  • correctly identify a tool name in its reasoning and then call a different/nonexistent tool
  • successfully generate a PDF and immediately tell me it generated a PNG
  • output literal tool-call-like markup instead of making a proper structured tool call
  • lose track of very basic conversation context

This doesn't feel like a normal model-quality issue. It feels more like something is wrong with the chat template / DeepSeek V4 encoding / reasoning / tool calling integration, or possibly something specific to the ROCm vLLM implementation.

submitted by /u/Brunofcsampaio
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