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DeepSeek open-sourced DeepSeek-R1, an LLM fine-tuned with reinforcement learning (RL) to improve reasoning capability. DeepSeek-R1 attains results on par with OpenAI's o1 model on a number of standards, including MATH-500 and SWE-bench.

DeepSeek-R1 is based upon DeepSeek-V3, a mix of experts (MoE) model recently open-sourced by DeepSeek. This base design is fine-tuned using Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), a reasoning-oriented variant of RL. The research team likewise performed knowledge distillation from DeepSeek-R1 to open-source Qwen and Llama models and launched numerous versions of each; these designs exceed bigger designs, including GPT-4, on math and coding standards.

[DeepSeek-R1 is] the initial step toward improving language model thinking abilities utilizing pure reinforcement knowing (RL). Our goal is to check out the potential of LLMs to establish thinking capabilities without any supervised information, concentrating on their self-evolution through a pure RL process...DeepSeek-R1 ... master a wide variety of tasks, including creative writing, basic concern answering, editing, summarization, and more. Additionally, DeepSeek-R1 shows exceptional efficiency on tasks requiring long-context understanding, significantly outshining DeepSeek-V3 on long-context benchmarks.

To develop the design, DeepSeek began with DeepSeek-V3 as a base. They initially attempted fine-tuning it only with RL, and with no supervised fine-tuning (SFT), producing a design called DeepSeek-R1-Zero, which they have likewise released. This design displays strong thinking performance, but" effective thinking behaviors, it faces numerous concerns. For circumstances, DeepSeek-R1-Zero has problem with challenges like bad readability and language mixing."

To address this, the team used a short phase of SFT to avoid the "cold start" problem of RL. They collected several thousand examples of to use in SFT of DeepSeek-V3 before running RL. After the RL process assembled, they then collected more SFT data utilizing rejection tasting, resulting in a dataset of 800k samples. This dataset was utilized for more fine-tuning and to produce the distilled designs from Llama and Qwen.

DeepSeek evaluated their model on a variety of thinking, mathematics, and coding benchmarks and compared it to other designs, including Claude-3.5- Sonnet, GPT-4o, bytes-the-dust.com and o1. DeepSeek-R1 exceeded all of them on numerous of the standards, including AIME 2024 and MATH-500.

DeepSeek-R1 Performance. Image Source: DeepSeek-R1 Technical Report

Within a couple of days of its release, the LMArena announced that DeepSeek-R1 was ranked # 3 total in the arena and # 1 in coding and math. It was likewise tied for # 1 with o1 in "Hard Prompt with Style Control" category.

Django structure co-creator Simon Willison wrote about his try outs among the DeepSeek distilled Llama designs on his blog:

Each response starts with a ... pseudo-XML tag containing the chain of thought used to help produce the response. [Given the timely] "a joke about a pelican and a walrus who run a tea room together" ... It then thought for 20 paragraphs before outputting the joke! ... [T] he joke is dreadful. But the process of arriving was such an interesting insight into how these new designs work.

Andrew Ng's newsletter The Batch wrote about DeepSeek-R1:

DeepSeek is quickly becoming a strong builder of open designs. Not only are these models great entertainers, however their license permits use of their outputs for distillation, possibly pushing forward the cutting-edge for language designs (and multimodal models) of all sizes.

The DeepSeek-R1 models are available on HuggingFace.

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