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Created Apr 08, 2025 by Benny Kelsey@bennyvob74038Maintainer

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 outcomes on par with OpenAI's o1 model on a number of standards, consisting of MATH-500 and SWE-bench.

DeepSeek-R1 is based on DeepSeek-V3, a mixture of experts (MoE) model recently open-sourced by DeepSeek. This base model is fine-tuned utilizing Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), a reasoning-oriented variant of RL. The research study group also carried out understanding distillation from DeepSeek-R1 to open-source Qwen and demo.qkseo.in Llama designs and launched a number of variations of each; these designs surpass bigger designs, consisting of GPT-4, on math and coding benchmarks.

[DeepSeek-R1 is] the first step toward improving language model thinking capabilities utilizing pure reinforcement learning (RL). Our objective is to check out the potential of LLMs to develop thinking abilities without any monitored information, focusing on their self-evolution through a pure RL process...DeepSeek-R1 ... master a large range of tasks, consisting of innovative writing, setiathome.berkeley.edu general question answering, modifying, summarization, and more. Additionally, DeepSeek-R1 demonstrates outstanding performance on jobs requiring long-context understanding, substantially outperforming DeepSeek-V3 on long-context standards.

To establish the model, DeepSeek started with DeepSeek-V3 as a base. They first tried fine-tuning it only with RL, and without any monitored fine-tuning (SFT), producing a design called DeepSeek-R1-Zero, which they have also released. This design shows strong thinking performance, but" effective thinking behaviors, it deals with several issues. For example, DeepSeek-R1-Zero has a hard time with challenges like bad readability and language mixing."

To this, the team used a brief stage of SFT to prevent the "cold start" problem of RL. They collected a number of thousand examples of chain-of-thought thinking to use in SFT of DeepSeek-V3 before running RL. After the RL procedure converged, 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 evaluated their model on a variety of reasoning, math, systemcheck-wiki.de and coding benchmarks and compared it to other designs, including Claude-3.5- Sonnet, GPT-4o, and setiathome.berkeley.edu o1. DeepSeek-R1 outshined all of them on several of the criteria, 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 total in the arena and # 1 in coding and mathematics. It was likewise tied for # 1 with o1 in "Hard Prompt with Style Control" classification.

Django framework co-creator Simon Willison blogged about his experiments with one of the DeepSeek distilled Llama models on his blog:

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

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

DeepSeek is quickly becoming a strong home builder of open models. Not just are these models great entertainers, but their license allows use of their outputs for distillation, it-viking.ch 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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