DeepSeek open-sourced DeepSeek-R1, an LLM fine-tuned with support knowing (RL) to enhance thinking ability. DeepSeek-R1 attains results on par with OpenAI's o1 model on a number of criteria, consisting of MATH-500 and SWE-bench.

DeepSeek-R1 is based upon DeepSeek-V3, a mix of specialists (MoE) design recently open-sourced by DeepSeek. This base model is fine-tuned using Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), a reasoning-oriented variation of RL. The research study group likewise performed knowledge distillation from DeepSeek-R1 to open-source Qwen and Llama models and hb9lc.org released a number of versions of each; these models exceed larger designs, consisting of GPT-4, on mathematics and coding criteria.

[DeepSeek-R1 is] the primary step towards improving language model reasoning capabilities utilizing pure support knowing (RL). Our objective is to explore the potential of LLMs to develop thinking abilities without any monitored data, focusing on their self-evolution through a pure RL process...DeepSeek-R1 ... excels in a vast array of tasks, consisting of innovative writing, basic concern answering, editing, summarization, and more. Additionally, DeepSeek-R1 shows impressive efficiency on tasks needing long-context understanding, substantially exceeding DeepSeek-V3 on long-context benchmarks.

To establish the design, DeepSeek began with DeepSeek-V3 as a base. They first attempted fine-tuning it only with RL, and with no supervised fine-tuning (SFT), producing a model called DeepSeek-R1-Zero, which they have also released. This model displays strong thinking efficiency, but" powerful reasoning habits, it faces numerous problems. For instance, DeepSeek-R1-Zero deals with challenges like bad readability and language mixing."

To address this, the team used a brief phase of SFT to prevent the "cold start" issue of RL. They gathered several thousand examples of chain-of-thought reasoning to use in SFT of DeepSeek-V3 before running RL. After the RL procedure converged, they then collected more SFT information using rejection sampling, resulting in a dataset of 800k samples. This dataset was used for further fine-tuning and to produce the distilled models from Llama and Qwen.

DeepSeek evaluated their design on a of thinking, mathematics, and coding benchmarks and compared it to other designs, consisting of Claude-3.5- Sonnet, GPT-4o, and o1. DeepSeek-R1 outshined all of them on several 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 announced that DeepSeek-R1 was ranked # 3 general in the arena and # 1 in coding and mathematics. It was also tied for # 1 with o1 in "Hard Prompt with Style Control" category.

Django framework co-creator Simon Willison blogged about his explores one of the DeepSeek distilled Llama designs on his blog:

Each response starts with a ... pseudo-XML tag containing the chain of idea used to assist generate the action. [Given the timely] "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 horrible. But the procedure of arriving was such an interesting insight into how these new models work.

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

DeepSeek is quickly becoming a strong home builder of open designs. Not only are these models fantastic entertainers, however their license allows usage of their outputs for distillation, potentially pressing forward the cutting-edge for language designs (and multimodal designs) of all sizes.

The DeepSeek-R1 models are available on HuggingFace.

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