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DeepSeek open-sourced DeepSeek-R1, an LLM fine-tuned with reinforcement knowing (RL) to improve thinking ability. DeepSeek-R1 attains outcomes on par with OpenAI's o1 model on a number of benchmarks, including MATH-500 and SWE-bench.

DeepSeek-R1 is based on DeepSeek-V3, a mixture of professionals (MoE) model just recently open-sourced by DeepSeek. This base design is fine-tuned utilizing Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), a reasoning-oriented version of RL. The research group likewise performed understanding from DeepSeek-R1 to open-source Qwen and Llama models and released numerous versions of each; these models exceed bigger models, consisting of GPT-4, on math and coding benchmarks.

[DeepSeek-R1 is] the first step towards improving language model reasoning abilities utilizing pure support learning (RL). Our goal is to explore the capacity of LLMs to establish reasoning capabilities with no supervised information, concentrating on their self-evolution through a pure RL process...DeepSeek-R1 ... excels in a vast array of tasks, including innovative writing, general question answering, editing, summarization, and more. Additionally, DeepSeek-R1 demonstrates exceptional performance on jobs needing long-context understanding, considerably surpassing DeepSeek-V3 on long-context standards.

To establish the design, DeepSeek began with DeepSeek-V3 as a base. They first attempted fine-tuning it only with RL, and with no monitored fine-tuning (SFT), producing a model called DeepSeek-R1-Zero, which they have also launched. This model shows strong reasoning performance, however" effective thinking behaviors, it faces numerous concerns. For example, DeepSeek-R1-Zero struggles with difficulties like bad readability and language blending."

To resolve this, the team utilized a short stage of SFT to prevent the "cold start" issue of RL. They gathered a number of thousand examples of chain-of-thought reasoning to utilize in SFT of DeepSeek-V3 before running RL. After the RL process assembled, they then collected more SFT information utilizing rejection sampling, leading to a dataset of 800k samples. This dataset was used for additional fine-tuning and to produce the distilled models from Llama and Qwen.

DeepSeek assessed their model on a variety of thinking, math, and coding standards and compared it to other models, including Claude-3.5- Sonnet, GPT-4o, and o1. DeepSeek-R1 surpassed 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 few days of its release, the LMArena revealed that DeepSeek-R1 was ranked # 3 overall in the arena and # 1 in coding and math. It was also tied for # 1 with o1 in "Hard Prompt with Style Control" classification.

Django structure co-creator Simon Willison discussed his explores among the DeepSeek distilled Llama models on his blog:

Each response begins with a ... pseudo-XML tag containing the chain of thought utilized to assist generate the reaction. [Given the prompt] "a joke about a pelican and a walrus who run a tea space together" ... It then thought for 20 paragraphs before outputting the joke! ... [T] he joke is terrible. But the procedure of arriving was such an interesting insight into how these new models work.

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

DeepSeek is rapidly emerging as a strong builder of open models. Not only are these designs great entertainers, but their license permits usage of their outputs for distillation, potentially pressing forward the state of the art for language models (and multimodal designs) of all sizes.

The DeepSeek-R1 designs are available on HuggingFace.

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