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DeepSeek open-sourced DeepSeek-R1, an LLM fine-tuned with (RL) to improve thinking capability. DeepSeek-R1 attains outcomes on par with OpenAI's o1 model on a number of benchmarks, including MATH-500 and SWE-bench.

DeepSeek-R1 is based upon DeepSeek-V3, a mix of specialists (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 group also performed knowledge distillation from DeepSeek-R1 to open-source Qwen and Llama designs and released several variations of each; these models outperform bigger designs, consisting of GPT-4, on mathematics and coding criteria.

[DeepSeek-R1 is] the initial step towards improving language design thinking capabilities utilizing pure support learning (RL). Our objective is to check out the capacity of LLMs to establish thinking abilities with no monitored data, focusing on their self-evolution through a pure RL process...DeepSeek-R1 ... excels in a large variety of jobs, including creative writing, basic question answering, modifying, summarization, and more. Additionally, DeepSeek-R1 demonstrates exceptional efficiency on jobs needing long-context understanding, significantly surpassing DeepSeek-V3 on long-context criteria.

To develop the design, DeepSeek started with DeepSeek-V3 as a base. They initially tried fine-tuning it just with RL, and with no monitored fine-tuning (SFT), producing a design called DeepSeek-R1-Zero, which they have likewise launched. This design displays strong reasoning performance, but" powerful thinking habits, it deals with several issues. For example, DeepSeek-R1-Zero has problem with challenges like poor readability and language blending."

To address this, the group used a brief phase of SFT to avoid the "cold start" issue 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 process assembled, they then collected 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 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 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 revealed that DeepSeek-R1 was ranked # 3 general in the arena and # 1 in coding and math. It was also connected for # 1 with o1 in "Hard Prompt with Style Control" classification.

Django structure co-creator Simon Willison discussed his experiments with among the DeepSeek distilled Llama models on his blog:

Each response starts with a ... pseudo-XML tag containing the chain of thought used to assist produce the reaction. [Given the prompt] "a joke about a pelican and a walrus who run a tea space together" ... It then believed for forum.batman.gainedge.org 20 paragraphs before outputting the joke! ... [T] he joke is horrible. But the process of getting there was such a fascinating insight into how these brand-new designs work.

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

DeepSeek is rapidly emerging as a strong builder of open designs. Not just are these designs fantastic entertainers, however their license permits usage of their outputs for distillation, possibly pushing forward the cutting-edge for language models (and multimodal models) of all sizes.

The DeepSeek-R1 designs are available on HuggingFace.

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