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DeepSeek open-sourced DeepSeek-R1, an LLM fine-tuned with reinforcement knowing (RL) to improve reasoning capability. DeepSeek-R1 attains outcomes on par with OpenAI's o1 design on numerous benchmarks, including MATH-500 and SWE-bench.

DeepSeek-R1 is based on DeepSeek-V3, a mixture of specialists (MoE) design recently open-sourced by DeepSeek. This base model is fine-tuned using Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), a reasoning-oriented version of RL. The research study group also carried out knowledge distillation from DeepSeek-R1 to open-source Qwen and Llama models and released several versions of each; these designs outperform bigger models, consisting of GPT-4, on math and coding standards.

[DeepSeek-R1 is] the initial step towards improving language design reasoning abilities using pure reinforcement learning (RL). Our objective is to check out the capacity of LLMs to establish thinking abilities with no supervised data, focusing on their self-evolution through a pure RL process...DeepSeek-R1 ... excels in a wide variety of tasks, consisting of creative writing, basic concern answering, editing, summarization, and more. Additionally, DeepSeek-R1 shows outstanding performance on long-context understanding, considerably outperforming DeepSeek-V3 on long-context criteria.

To establish the model, DeepSeek began with DeepSeek-V3 as a base. They first tried fine-tuning it only with RL, and with no supervised fine-tuning (SFT), producing a model called DeepSeek-R1-Zero, which they have actually also released. This model shows strong thinking performance, however" effective reasoning behaviors, it faces numerous issues. For example, DeepSeek-R1-Zero has problem with obstacles like bad readability and language blending."

To address this, the team utilized a short stage of SFT to prevent the "cold start" problem of RL. They gathered a number of thousand examples of chain-of-thought reasoning to use in SFT of DeepSeek-V3 before running RL. After the RL procedure assembled, they then gathered more SFT information using 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 evaluated their model on a range of thinking, math, and coding criteria and compared it to other designs, consisting of Claude-3.5- Sonnet, GPT-4o, and o1. DeepSeek-R1 exceeded all of them on numerous of the criteria, consisting of 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 general in the arena and # 1 in coding and math. It was also tied for # 1 with o1 in "Hard Prompt with Style Control" category.

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

Each reaction begins with a ... pseudo-XML tag containing the chain of thought used to assist create the reaction. [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 process of arriving was such a fascinating insight into how these new models work.

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

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

The DeepSeek-R1 designs are available on HuggingFace.

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