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Created Apr 02, 2025 by Benny Reasoner@bennyreasoner3Maintainer

DeepSeek Open-Sources DeepSeek-R1 LLM with Performance Comparable To OpenAI's O1 Model


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

DeepSeek-R1 is based upon DeepSeek-V3, a mix of specialists (MoE) model recently open-sourced by DeepSeek. This base design is fine-tuned utilizing Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), a reasoning-oriented variation of RL. The research team likewise performed knowledge distillation from DeepSeek-R1 to open-source Qwen and Llama designs and launched several variations of each; these models outperform bigger designs, consisting of GPT-4, on math and coding benchmarks.

[DeepSeek-R1 is] the very first step toward enhancing language design reasoning capabilities using pure support learning (RL). Our goal is to check out the capacity of LLMs to develop thinking capabilities without any supervised information, concentrating on their self-evolution through a pure RL process...DeepSeek-R1 ... master a wide variety of jobs, consisting of creative writing, basic concern answering, editing, summarization, and more. Additionally, DeepSeek-R1 shows outstanding efficiency on jobs requiring long-context understanding, substantially exceeding DeepSeek-V3 on long-context benchmarks.

To establish the design, DeepSeek started with DeepSeek-V3 as a base. They initially attempted fine-tuning it just with RL, and without any supervised fine-tuning (SFT), producing a model called DeepSeek-R1-Zero, which they have also launched. This model shows strong thinking performance, but" powerful reasoning behaviors, it deals with several issues. For example, DeepSeek-R1-Zero has problem with obstacles like poor readability and language mixing."

To resolve this, the team used a short stage of SFT to prevent the "cold start" problem of RL. They gathered a number of thousand examples of chain-of-thought thinking to utilize in SFT of DeepSeek-V3 before running RL. After the RL procedure assembled, they then collected more SFT information using rejection tasting, resulting in a dataset of 800k samples. This dataset was used for further fine-tuning and to produce the distilled designs from Llama and Qwen.

DeepSeek assessed their model on a variety of reasoning, math, and coding benchmarks 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 standards, consisting of AIME 2024 and MATH-500.

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

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

Django structure co-creator Simon Willison discussed his explores one of the DeepSeek distilled Llama designs on his blog site:

Each action starts with a ... pseudo-XML tag containing the chain of idea used to help create the response. [Given the timely] "a joke about a pelican and a walrus who run a tea room together" ... It then believed for 20 paragraphs before outputting the joke! ... [T] he joke is horrible. But the procedure of arriving was such a fascinating insight into how these brand-new designs work.

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

DeepSeek is rapidly becoming a strong builder of open models. Not just are these designs fantastic entertainers, however 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 designs are available on HuggingFace.

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