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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 design on several criteria, including MATH-500 and SWE-bench.

DeepSeek-R1 is based on DeepSeek-V3, a mix of specialists (MoE) model recently open-sourced by DeepSeek. This base model is fine-tuned using Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), a reasoning-oriented variant of RL. The research study team likewise performed understanding distillation from DeepSeek-R1 to open-source Qwen and Llama models and released numerous versions of each; these designs outperform larger designs, consisting of GPT-4, on mathematics and coding criteria.

[DeepSeek-R1 is] the primary step toward enhancing language design reasoning capabilities utilizing pure reinforcement knowing (RL). Our goal is to check out the capacity of LLMs to establish reasoning abilities with no supervised data, concentrating on their self-evolution through a pure RL process...DeepSeek-R1 ... excels in a vast array of tasks, including creative writing, general question answering, editing, summarization, and more. Additionally, DeepSeek-R1 demonstrates exceptional efficiency on tasks requiring long-context understanding, substantially outperforming DeepSeek-V3 on long-context criteria.

To establish the design, DeepSeek began with DeepSeek-V3 as a base. They first tried fine-tuning it just with RL, and with no monitored fine-tuning (SFT), producing a model called DeepSeek-R1-Zero, which they have also released. This model shows strong thinking efficiency, but" effective thinking habits, it deals with several problems. For example, DeepSeek-R1-Zero fights with difficulties like bad readability and language mixing."

To address this, the group used a brief phase of SFT to prevent the "cold start" problem of RL. They gathered numerous thousand examples of chain-of-thought thinking to utilize in SFT of DeepSeek-V3 before running RL. After the RL process converged, they then gathered more SFT data using rejection tasting, resulting in a dataset of 800k samples. This dataset was used for more fine-tuning and to produce the distilled designs from Llama and Qwen.

DeepSeek evaluated their design on a variety of reasoning, mathematics, and coding criteria and compared it to other models, consisting of Claude-3.5- Sonnet, GPT-4o, and o1. DeepSeek-R1 exceeded all of them on several of the benchmarks, including AIME 2024 and MATH-500.

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

Within a few days of its release, the announced that DeepSeek-R1 was ranked # 3 overall in the arena and # 1 in coding and hb9lc.org math. It was also connected for # 1 with o1 in "Hard Prompt with Style Control" classification.

Django framework co-creator Simon Willison discussed his experiments with one of the DeepSeek distilled Llama designs on his blog:

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

Andrew Ng's newsletter The Batch discussed DeepSeek-R1:

DeepSeek is rapidly becoming a strong home builder of open designs. Not just are these models excellent entertainers, but their license permits usage of their outputs for distillation, potentially pushing forward the cutting-edge for language models (and multimodal designs) of all sizes.

The DeepSeek-R1 models are available on HuggingFace.

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