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DeepSeek open-sourced DeepSeek-R1, an LLM fine-tuned with reinforcement learning (RL) to enhance thinking ability. DeepSeek-R1 attains outcomes on par with OpenAI's o1 design on a number of standards, including 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 design is fine-tuned using Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), a reasoning-oriented version of RL. The research study group likewise carried out understanding distillation from DeepSeek-R1 to open-source Qwen and setiathome.berkeley.edu Llama models and launched several versions of each; these designs outperform bigger designs, including GPT-4, on mathematics and coding criteria.

[DeepSeek-R1 is] the initial step toward improving language design reasoning capabilities utilizing pure reinforcement knowing (RL). Our goal is to explore the potential of LLMs to develop reasoning abilities without any supervised information, concentrating on their self-evolution through a pure RL process...DeepSeek-R1 ... master a large range of jobs, including imaginative writing, basic concern answering, editing, summarization, and more. Additionally, DeepSeek-R1 shows outstanding efficiency on tasks requiring long-context understanding, substantially outshining DeepSeek-V3 on long-context criteria.

To establish the model, DeepSeek began with DeepSeek-V3 as a base. They initially attempted fine-tuning it just with RL, and without any supervised fine-tuning (SFT), producing a design called DeepSeek-R1-Zero, which they have actually likewise released. This design displays strong reasoning performance, but" powerful reasoning behaviors, it faces several issues. For example, DeepSeek-R1-Zero has problem with obstacles like poor readability and language blending."

To resolve this, the group utilized a short phase of SFT to prevent the "cold start" issue of RL. They collected 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 gathered more SFT data using rejection tasting, resulting in a dataset of 800k samples. This dataset was utilized for more fine-tuning and to produce the distilled models from Llama and Qwen.

DeepSeek evaluated their design on a variety of reasoning, math, and coding benchmarks and compared it to other models, including Claude-3.5- Sonnet, GPT-4o, and o1. DeepSeek-R1 outperformed all of them on several 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, the LMArena revealed that DeepSeek-R1 was ranked # 3 total in the arena and # 1 in coding and math. It was likewise tied for # 1 with o1 in "Hard Prompt with Style Control" category.

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

Each response begins with a ... pseudo-XML tag containing the chain of thought used to assist generate the reaction. [Given the timely] "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 dreadful. But the process of arriving was such a fascinating insight into how these brand-new models work.

Andrew Ng's The Batch discussed DeepSeek-R1:

DeepSeek is quickly becoming a strong builder of open designs. Not just are these designs fantastic entertainers, however their license allows 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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