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DeepSeek open-sourced DeepSeek-R1, an LLM fine-tuned with reinforcement knowing (RL) to enhance reasoning ability. DeepSeek-R1 attains outcomes on par with OpenAI's o1 model on numerous criteria, consisting of MATH-500 and SWE-bench.

DeepSeek-R1 is based on DeepSeek-V3, a mixture of specialists (MoE) design 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 study group likewise carried out understanding distillation from DeepSeek-R1 to open-source Qwen and Llama models and released several variations of each; these models exceed larger designs, including GPT-4, on mathematics and coding benchmarks.

[DeepSeek-R1 is] the very first step towards enhancing language design reasoning abilities utilizing pure reinforcement learning (RL). Our objective is to check out the capacity of LLMs to develop thinking abilities without any supervised information, concentrating on their self-evolution through a pure RL process...DeepSeek-R1 ... master a vast array of jobs, including creative writing, basic concern answering, modifying, summarization, and more. Additionally, DeepSeek-R1 shows impressive performance on tasks requiring long-context understanding, significantly surpassing DeepSeek-V3 on long-context benchmarks.

To establish the design, DeepSeek began with DeepSeek-V3 as a base. They first tried fine-tuning it only with RL, and with no supervised fine-tuning (SFT), producing a model called DeepSeek-R1-Zero, which they have actually also released. This design shows strong thinking performance, however" effective thinking behaviors, it faces several problems. For example, DeepSeek-R1-Zero has problem with difficulties like poor readability and language blending."

To resolve this, the team utilized a brief phase of SFT to avoid the "cold start" problem of RL. They collected a number of thousand examples of chain-of-thought thinking to utilize in SFT of DeepSeek-V3 before running RL. After the RL procedure converged, they then gathered more SFT information using rejection sampling, leading to a dataset of 800k samples. This dataset was used for more fine-tuning and to produce the distilled models from Llama and Qwen.

DeepSeek examined their design on a range 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 standards, setiathome.berkeley.edu 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 total 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 framework co-creator Simon Willison blogged about his try outs one of the DeepSeek distilled Llama models on his blog site:

Each reaction starts with a ... pseudo-XML tag containing the chain of idea utilized to assist produce the reaction. [Given the timely] "a joke about a pelican and a walrus who run a tea space together" ... It then thought for 20 paragraphs before outputting the joke! ... [T] he joke is dreadful. But the procedure of was such an interesting insight into how these new designs work.

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

DeepSeek is rapidly becoming a strong contractor of open designs. Not only are these models terrific entertainers, but their license permits use of their outputs for distillation, potentially pushing forward the state of the art for language designs (and multimodal designs) of all sizes.

The DeepSeek-R1 models are available on HuggingFace.

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