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 model on a number of standards, consisting of MATH-500 and SWE-bench.

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

[DeepSeek-R1 is] the primary step towards improving language model reasoning capabilities utilizing pure support knowing (RL). Our goal is to explore the potential of LLMs to develop thinking abilities without any supervised information, focusing on their self-evolution through a pure RL process...DeepSeek-R1 ... excels in a broad range of jobs, consisting of creative writing, basic question answering, editing, summarization, and more. Additionally, DeepSeek-R1 demonstrates impressive efficiency on jobs needing long-context understanding, significantly outshining DeepSeek-V3 on long-context criteria.

To establish the design, DeepSeek began with DeepSeek-V3 as a base. They initially attempted 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 exhibits strong reasoning efficiency, however" powerful reasoning behaviors, it deals with numerous issues. For instance, DeepSeek-R1-Zero has a hard time with challenges like poor readability and language mixing."

To address this, the team utilized a short phase of SFT to avoid the "cold start" problem of RL. They gathered numerous thousand examples of chain-of-thought thinking to use in SFT of DeepSeek-V3 before running RL. After the RL process assembled, they then collected more SFT data utilizing rejection sampling, resulting in a dataset of 800k samples. This dataset was utilized for more fine-tuning and to produce the distilled designs from Llama and Qwen.

DeepSeek examined their design on a variety of thinking, math, and coding benchmarks and compared it to other designs, consisting of Claude-3.5- Sonnet, GPT-4o, and o1. DeepSeek-R1 surpassed all of them on numerous of the criteria, including AIME 2024 and forum.batman.gainedge.org 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 overall in the arena and # 1 in coding and math. It was also tied for # 1 with o1 in "Hard Prompt with Style Control" classification.

Django structure co-creator Simon Willison discussed 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 utilized to help create the reaction. [Given the prompt] "a joke about a pelican and a walrus who run a tea space together" ... It then believed for 20 paragraphs before outputting the joke! ... [T] he joke is horrible. But the procedure of arriving was such an intriguing insight into how these new models work.

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

DeepSeek is quickly emerging as a strong home builder of open designs. Not just are these models excellent entertainers, however their license permits use of their outputs for distillation, possibly pressing forward the state of the art for language models (and multimodal models) of all sizes.

The DeepSeek-R1 models are available on HuggingFace.

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